Water Heater Repair in Selma, IN
66% of households in Selma heat with gas. That is the strongest free clue to what kind of water heater is in your basement, and it decides which faults are even possible.
Answer first
66% of Selma households burn gas for heat, and a water heater almost always sits on whatever line the furnace already uses. That is house heating fuel, so read it as a strong hint rather than as a reading of your own tank. On a gas heater the suspects are the pilot, the thermocouple and the gas control valve, in that order.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.
What Selma runs on
In a town leaning this far onto gas, the water heater in most homes is a gas one, and gas failures are their own family: a pilot that will not stay lit, a thermocouple that has stopped proving flame, a gas control valve that has given up.
| Fuel | Share of households |
|---|---|
| Gas — mains and bottled | 66% |
| Electricity | 28% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 1% |
| Everything else | 4% |
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, table B25040, 2023 5-year release. The universe is 1,002 occupied housing units in and around Selma.
That sits 20 points lower than the Indiana average, which is why we publish the town figure rather than the state one.
One caveat, because it matters: the Census measures the fuel a household heats the HOUSE with, not the fuel it heats WATER with. The two track each other closely — a gas line to the furnace usually feeds the tank as well — but they are not the same number.
Which one do you have
Not sure which you have? A metal flue rising off the top is a gas heater. Two small access panels on the side and no flue is an electric one. Settle that one question and the rest of the conversation is straightforward.
Then match what you are seeing: cold from the start, hot then cold, banging and popping, or a leak.
ZIP codes we route in Selma
- 47383
Nearby towns, and what they burn
Fuel is not uniform across a region. One of the nearby towns we route lead on something other than gas, which is why a diagnosis that fits one town does not travel.
- West College Corner 48% electricity
- Merrillville 85% gas
- Laconia 36% gas
- Clarksville 52% gas
- Spiceland 75% gas
Know the fuel and the symptom? That is most of the call.Gas and electric heaters fail in almost entirely different ways, so saying which you have gets you to the right person faster. We route the call and never charge you for it. Not heaters alone — Selma keeps us busy with every kind of plumbing.
Call (866) 871-2892