Hot Water Service and Repairs

Rheem internal gas hot water service in Ascot Vale

Hot Water Service Ascot Vale | Rheem internal gas hot water service | Finlay Plumbing

Gas Pilot Light Won’t Light This Rheem internal gas hot water service in Ascot Vale went cold recently. It hadn’t burst – the gas pilot light had gone out and wouldn’t relight. On the same day as the phone call (within hours actually) we went there and replaced the thermocouple – that’s the probe like…

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Hot Water Service East Keilor

Hot Water Service East Keilor | Finlay Plumbing

Hot Water Dramas in East Keilor. To the rescue of another victim of cold showers. This time it was an Aquamax hot water service being the villain. No not a burst tank, just a faulty gas control valve causing the pilot light to extinguish. After fitting and testing the new gas control valve the Aquamax…

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Tempering Valve Replacement

Tempering Valve Replacement | Finlay Plumbing

Cold or Luke Warm Showers? Are you having lukewarm or even cold showers and you don’t know why? Well it could be your tempering valve. What’s a tempering valve I hear you say? Its the brass valve in the photos – this one is actually chrome plated. It’s the valve with the three pipes attached…

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RHEEM STELLAR 330 Essendon

RHEEM STELLAR 330 Essendon | Hot Water Unit | Finlay Plumbing

New RHEEM STELLAR 330 Gas hot water installed in Essendon in under three hours Fast change-over hot water! When the hot water unit gives up the ghost, you don’t want to be left with cold showers for days on end! We had the hot water back up and running within three hours for these customers…

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Electric Hot Water Service Essendon

Electric Hot Water Unit Installation Essendon | Finlay Plumbing

Remember that burst hot water unit in Essendon we wrote about a couple of weeks ago? We had a leaking (spurting like a fountain) hot water unit that needed to be replaced. All we were waiting on was for the owner’s to decide between a gas or electric unit. Well the verdict is in! Today…

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Gas or Electric Hot water Service?

Hot Water Service Replacement Essendon | Burst Hot Water Unit | Finlay Plumbing

Another burst hot water service in Essendon. We were there within an hour from getting the phone call. This hot water was electric mains pressure – probably fifteen plus years old. It burst at the top near where the sacrificial anode bolts into the top of the cylinder. There’s a match head sized hole which…

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Aquamax Pilot Light Issues

Aquamax Pilot Light Issues | Hot Water Repairs | Finlay Plumbing

Hot Water Service Repairs Essendon The pilot light on this old Aquamax hot water service kept going out. A frustrating situation, especially when the shower is cold first thing on a winter’s morning! Brrrr… This is not uncommon for the Aquamax. Usually to get it going again the gas control valve and the thermocouple need…

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Hot Water Service Repair Essendon

Hot Water Service Repair Essendon | Finlay Plumbing

Hot Water Service & Repairs Essendon Had a call from a new customer in Essendon complaining about his leaking Aquamax gas hot water service. He thought he was up for a new hot water service. We were able to determine over the phone that it was leaking from it’s mixing valve. Within the hour we…

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Hot Water Service Replacement Oak Park

Hot Water Service Replacement Oak Park | Finlay Plumbing

Hot Water Service & Repairs Another hot water service installed within four hours from the call of the customer.  This time in Oak Park. Once again another Rheem Stellar 360 mains pressure gas hot water service. Ten year warranty on the cylinder. 360 litres of hot water in the first hour. And AUSSIE MADE!!

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Hot Water Service Essendon 1930s style

Hot Water Service Essendon 1930s Style | Finlay Plumbing

Electric hot water, 1930’s style. Check out this old set up in Essendon, Melbourne. Note the header tank on the tank stand on the roof to give pressure (gravity feed – a poor substitute for mains pressure) and the actual hot water unit on the stand near the back door of the house. This was…

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