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Water Heater Repair in Temple, NH

54% of households in Temple heat with fuel oil. 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

Most households in Temple heat with fuel oil — 54% of them — which is the strongest free clue to what stands in the basement, though the figure counts house heating rather than the water heater itself. With oil heat the burner is a serviced appliance, not a part you swap.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.

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What Temple runs on

With oil ahead in the mix, indirect hot water is common enough locally that it should be ruled in or out before anyone quotes you a new tank.

Fuel	Share of households
Gas — mains and bottled	15%
Electricity	5%
Fuel oil and kerosene	54%
Everything else	26%

Figures from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year estimates, table B25040, 2023 release, covering 509 occupied housing units across Temple.

That is 25 points lower than New Hampshire as a whole, which is a real difference rather than a rounding one.

That figure is house heating fuel, not water heater fuel. They correlate strongly, because the same gas line generally serves both, but the Census does not publish the second one and we are not going to pretend it does.

Propane rather than mains gas

Bottled and tank gas lead mains gas here. Before assuming a fault, check the tank — running out is the commonest no-hot-water cause on propane and costs nothing to rule out.

Bottled and tank gas accounts for 15% of households here, and the survey records none at all on mains gas.

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. Find out what your own tank burns before anyone quotes you anything.

Then match what you are seeing: cold from the start, hot then cold, banging and popping, or a leak.

ZIP codes we route in Temple

03084

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 fuel oil, which is why a diagnosis that fits one town does not travel.

Stratham 55% fuel oil
Amherst 55% fuel oil
Chester 53% fuel oil
Hampton 60% gas
Danbury 41% fuel oil

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. Whatever else is wrong in Temple, mention it while we have you.

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