Water Heater Installation in New Boston, Michigan

Temprasure has installed water heaters across Wayne County for years, and New Boston is a regular stop. The job is simple when it is done right and a headache for the next owner when it is not. We set the tank level, replace every connector, pipe the relief valve to the floor, add an expansion tank where the New Boston water system has a check valve at the meter, verify draft at the hood with the furnace running, and pull the permit so the inspection is on record. A new water heater in the Huron River Drive corridor or anywhere else in 48164 from us is installed by the owner and warrantied by the manufacturer in your name.

New Boston houses and what that means for water heater replacement

New Boston and Huron Township give us a wide spread of housing in a small area. The village core along Huron River Drive and the streets behind it has 1900s to 1930s frame houses with Michigan basements or crawlspaces, retrofitted ductwork and a furnace that was replaced sometime in the 90s. Waltz is similar but older on average. The 1960s and 70s ranches and subdivisions off Middlebelt, Sibley and Hannan Roads are on block basements or crawlspaces, with single-return furnaces and add-on central air from the 80s. Out on the section roads, 1990s to 2010s acreage builds are large colonials and ranches on poured basements with two-stage furnaces, sometimes a second attic system, and a pole barn with its own heater. Water is a mix of municipal supply in the village and wells outside it, and the well water is hard. Propane is the fuel on a fair number of rural parcels, which changes the furnace and water heater options.

Water quality in New Boston is the reason we talk about anode rods and tankless honestly. The municipal water in town and the well water in the rural parts of Wayne County are both hard, and some of the wells around the Huron River Drive corridor carry enough iron that a magnesium anode produces a sulfur smell within months. On a new tank we can install an aluminum-zinc or powered anode where that is a known issue, and we tell customers when to have the rod checked so the tank reaches fifteen years instead of ten. For tankless, we are straightforward: on New Boston water it needs annual descaling, and a house with a half-inch gas line and a 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds meter is not a cheap conversion. Some homes are great candidates and some are not, and we say which.

Water heaters in New Boston fail the way they fail everywhere in Wayne County: quietly for years, then all at once on a weekday morning. The 1900s–60s river-town houses with 1990s–2010s acreage builds around Inkster Road south of Sibley and Huron Estates mostly have 40- or 50-gallon atmospheric gas tanks on DTE Energy service, often in a basement near a sump pit where a leak goes unnoticed until the floor is wet. We are 25 minutes from 48164 with thermocouples, gas valves, elements, thermostats and relief valves on the truck, and when the tank itself is done we replace it the same day whenever a unit is in stock.

Local details we plan around in New Boston

• Propane furnaces and water heaters on the rural parcels need conversion kits and different orifices, and we carry what is needed for both propane and natural gas.
• River flooding in the village means we raise replacement furnaces and water heaters on pads and route condensate carefully.
• Well water across the township outside the village is hard and often high in iron, which shortens water heater life and scales humidifier pads quickly.
• The Huron River and the three metroparks keep New Boston humid and foggy, and the low ground near the river floods in spring, which affects basements and crawlspaces in the village. The open farmland on the west side of the township takes winter wind across the fields with no shelter, and the township runs a touch colder on clear nights than the suburbs to the north. Tree cover in the parks and along the river gives shade but drops debris into condensers all fall.