Water heater installation

How to install your water heater

Let me guess, you went downstairs to check clothes or grab a tool and there it was. A large pool of water runs all over the basement floor and comes from the bottom of the water heater. This is the obvious and most common sign that you need a new water heater installation.

If you have any experience with DIY projects around the house, installing a new water heater shouldn't be a problem for you. Follow the steps in this article and you will have your new water heater installed in a couple of hours. Installing a water heater yourself will save you up to $ 300 to $ 400 depending on where you live. Now, if you are not very fond of it, you can install your own water tank, however it may take a little more than a few hours If you like challenges and are not afraid to do repairs in your home, you can also install the heater yourself same.

Tools and Materials You Will Need:

Water Heater: Install What You Are Pulling Out If you have a 40 gallon and want to upgrade to 50 gallons, now is the time to do it. If you have a 50 gallon, I do NOT recommend switching to a lower one than you have.

¾ Connections - You will need 2 ¾ couplings and possibly some elbows. Check what type of plumbing you have that goes to your water heater. It can be copper, CPVC, PEX, or galvanized. I recommend getting Shark Bite fittings ¾ because they are so easy to install with PEX, CPVC, and copper pipe. When you have galvanized pipe, you may need to get a conversion fitting and fit one of the other pipes to make installation easier.

Black Pipe Fittings - You may need some ½ black pipe couplings and elbows to extend or shorten the gas line that connects to the heater. I install the gas line last. This way I will know exactly what I need for the gas connections.

2 - ¾ dielectrics. Always replace dielectrics when installing a new water heater. Make sure you get the right dielectrics for the pipe material you have in your home.

T&P Valve generally comes with the newer heaters.

Torch, flux, solder, sandpaper

Padlocks or elbow pliers

Pipe wrench

Pipe Thread Solution or Teflon Tape

Garden hose.

Now that we have all of our materials, let's get started. The first step is to turn off the main water supply to the house. Next Turn off the gas valve on the gas line to the เครื่องทําน้ําอุ่น. Now connect the garden hose to the bottom of the water heater and place the hose in the nearby floor drain. Turn on the valve (it looks like an outside hose faucet) and let the heater begin to drain.

At this time, go around your house and turn on all the taps. Make sure you leave the taps in the on position and have the hot and cold water running. This will allow all the water to drain from the heater much faster.

While the water is draining from the old heater, unpack the new water heater. First pipe the two shafts coming out of the top of the heater. Once they are doped, screw in the new dielectrics. Next, if your heater came with a T&P valve, unpack it and soak the threads. Screw the T&P valve into the side of the heater, there will be a threaded hole where it goes. You may need to use your socket wrench to turn the last one so the valve is pointing down. You now have the heater ready and ready to go.

Once the old heater has finished draining, disconnect the gas line at the union connection. This is the accessory that has a hexagonal center. Once the union is disconnected, disconnect the rest of the tubing ONLY on the heater you are replacing.

Now we will disconnect the water pipes. Use your channel locks to disconnect the dielectric. They will be disconnected like the gas pipe union fittings. Cut old dielectrics from copper or other tubing you may have.

Once all the pipes are disconnected from the water heater and there appears to be no more water in the tank, begin removing the old water heater. Make sure you leave enough room to put the new heater in place. If you have a small area, you may need to simply remove the old water heater to make room for the new water heater.

Align the new water heater with the pipes connecting the old heater. If you find that you need to change some water pipes, leave the pipe with the cold water valve on the straight pipe and reconfigure the hot side.

Connect the water line to the new heater using the shark bite fittings or whatever fittings you have.