Houston

Houston homeowners hear that humidity is bad for water heaters, but few understand the actual mechanism, which is worth knowing since it explains why the same unit lasts differently here than in a drier Texas city. What 75 to 90 Percent Humidity Actually Does Houston’s humidity, often running 75 to 90 percent for much of…

A huge number of Houston homes have pools, and homeowners with both a household water heater and a pool heater often assume the two systems have nothing to do with each other. In practice, the same Houston weather affects both, just in different ways. Two Systems, One Set of Weather Risks Your household water heater…

Houston has a large rental market, and water heater confusion between tenants and landlords comes up constantly, especially after a storm when everyone is dealing with multiple issues at once. Standard Responsibility Rules Under standard Texas lease terms, hot water is considered an essential service the landlord must maintain. If your water heater fails in…

Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 caused an estimated $22 billion in Texas residential insurance claims, and it changed how Houston homeowners and contractors think about freeze protection for water heaters and plumbing. What Uri Exposed Houston homes were largely built without sustained freeze protection in mind, reasonably so given how rarely the city sees…

Homes along the Katy Freeway corridor and inside Loop 610, near institutions like Rice University and Texas Southern University, span the widest range of ages and installation types we see in any single stretch of Houston. From 1970s Tanks to Brand New Tankless This corridor includes homes built in the 1970s and 1980s still running…

Near downtown and the University of Houston, Midtown and EaDo have seen heavy new construction over the past decade, and the water heater installations we do here look very different from what we install in older Houston neighborhoods. Tankless Is the Default in New Builds Here Newer townhomes and condos in Midtown and EaDo are…

Close to Memorial Park, River Oaks and Memorial have some of the larger homes we service in Houston, and larger homes mean hot water demand that a standard single unit sometimes cannot keep up with. Why One Unit Sometimes Is Not Enough Multiple bathrooms, a pool house, and household staff or multi generational living arrangements…

Near the Museum District and Buffalo Bayou, Montrose mixes historic homes with newer townhomes more than almost any other Houston neighborhood we service, and we see the full range of water heater setups within a few blocks of each other. Decades Old Tanks Next to Brand New Tankless Systems A historic Montrose bungalow might still…

The Heights is one of Houston’s oldest neighborhoods, built well before modern freeze codes existed, and that history shows up directly in the water heater calls we get from this part of the city. Original Attic and Closet Installations Many Heights homes still have water heaters original to the house, tucked into small closets or…