It’s always frustrating when you know you shouldn’t have run out of hot water during a shower, but it always seems to happen. In quite a few cases, people assume there’s something wrong with their hot water heater and that it needs to a replacement. Sometimes, they happen to be correct. When you have a hot water heater that was installed a short time ago, however, and you know it has a lot of capacity, this whole issue can be rather mysterious.
Hard Water
Hard water can create problems with hot water heaters. Over time, the hard water builds up deposits in the hot water heater. These are not minor amounts of deposit. In fact, a hot water heater can become so filed with hard water deposits that the capacity of the hot water heater is significantly reduced.
If you keep running out of hot water while you’re taking a shower or doing other activities, it may very well be the case that your hot water heater doesn’t have as much capacity as you think. A lot of the volume that should be taken up by water, in some cases, is actually being taken up by hard water deposits, lessening the overall volume capacity of the water heater and making your showers unpleasantly short.
What Can You Do?
Hot water heaters make many of the pleasantries of modern life possible. At the same time, they can also be extremely dangerous devices to the untrained. A professional plumber can clean out your hot water heater, ensuring that it has as much volume capacity as possible and that your showers can go on and on. You should have the service done on a regular basis and, if you’ve never had it done, you are probably losing some hot water capacity to deposits.
Fenwick Home Services has been providing Northeast Florida with top-notch plumbing service since 1969. Whether you need a new installation in new construction or you just need that hot water heater cleaned out so that you can enjoy your showers again, Bill Fenwick can help. With a team of highly trained professionals and a commitment to customer service, Fenwick Home Services can make certain that your appliances work as they were designed to work and that you get the most out of your fixtures. Call the Jacksonville plumbing experts!