Hot Water Service and Repairs
Rheem internal gas hot water service in Ascot Vale
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…
Read MoreHot Water Service East Keilor
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…
Read MoreTempering Valve Replacement
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…
Read MoreRHEEM STELLAR 330 Essendon
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…
Read MoreElectric Hot Water Service Essendon
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…
Read MoreGas or Electric Hot water Service?
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…
Read MoreAquamax Pilot Light Issues
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…
Read MoreHot Water Service Repair Essendon
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…
Read MoreHot Water Service Replacement Oak Park
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!!
Read MoreHot Water Service Essendon 1930s style
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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