Compare Water Heater Installation Costs With Savings

You probably are well versed in comparison-shopping and comparing water heater installation costs makes sense to save money. However, you should also be comparing apples to apples by understanding the strengths and uses of the systems. It may well be about more than the bottom line installation costs.

However, let us start at the bottom and work our way up in terms of cost comparisons. You have an existing water heater, it is a standard make, and you want to replace it with as little expense as possible and with no increase in energy efficiency or fuel source. That is the simplest scenario possible.

If you go get your own new water heater, bring it home, call the plumber and ask for water heater installation for an electric or gas water heater, you will probably pay the least possible for installation. There will be some other costs such as tubing, nipples and connectors and last but not least, disposal of the old water heater (unless you undertake that yourself but to lawfully dispose of a used water heater is expensive). It certainly depends on how many parts you supply yourself but the range of 200 – 300 is not unreasonable depending on the area of the country and what extras you need.

It becomes considerably more complicated to compare the water heater installation costs if you are changing systems as well. Going green, going for more energy efficiency and for lower bills will cost you considerably more in terms of installation since you may need to have an entirely new energy source installed.

It may be moderately expensive as in the case of running LP gas to a house, but don’t think it will be near as minor as installing a water heater using an existing power source.

Electric water heaters are “more” energy efficient than they used to be and the operative word there is more. They are usually less efficient to operate, cost more in the end but can be a matter of a few hundred dollars to install the new power source to electric if converting. So installation wise, electric is the least expensive to install if you are changing from another power source.

This is not to discourage the homeowner from considering sustainable energy sources or more efficient means of heating hot water, but you should be prepared to spend more to save more.

Solar water heating will cost the least over the years to provide hot water to your home, it will cost the most usually in terms of installation unless you already have solar panels installed. However, you may also be in a situation where you can take advantage of government environmental initiative programs to help defray installation costs for a solar water heater or even solar panels.

A solar water heater installation will require not only the tanks and fittings usual for a water heater but plumbing running to the solar panels where the water is heated. The cost of producing the hot water is 1/3 to ½ of other means of water heating but the cost of installation is much more.

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