Water Heater Repair in Salt Lake City, UT
81% of households in Salt Lake City 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
Knowing what Salt Lake City burns is worth more over the telephone than any description of the symptom, and 81% of households there heat with gas. House heating fuel predicts the water heater without proving it. 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 Salt Lake City runs on
Gas is clearly in front here. The useful consequence is that the fault list is short: pilot, thermocouple, gas valve, and eventually the flue.
| Fuel | Share of households |
|---|---|
| Gas — mains and bottled | 81% |
| Electricity | 18% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | under 1% |
| Everything else | 1% |
US Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates 2023, table B25040 (house heating fuel). Based on 200,349 occupied housing units in the ZIP code areas that cover Salt Lake City.
Utah statewide runs 3 points lower on gas, so this town is not typical of it.
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.
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. The fuel decides the fault list, so start there rather than with the symptom.
Then the symptom. Nothing at all and not enough are different faults, and treating them as one is how the wrong part gets replaced.
ZIP codes we route in Salt Lake City
- 84101
- 84102
- 84103
- 84104
- 84105
- 84106
- 84107
- 84108
- 84109
- 84110
- 84111
- 84112
- 84113
- 84114
- 84115
- 84116
- 84117
- 84118
- 84121
- 84122
- 84123
- 84124
- 84125
- 84126
- 84127
- 84129
- 84130
- 84131
- 84132
- 84133
- 84134
- 84138
- 84139
- 84141
- 84143
- 84145
- 84147
- 84148
- 84150
- 84151
- 84152
- 84157
- 84158
- 84165
- 84170
- 84171
- 84180
- 84184
- 84190
- 84199
Nearby towns, and what they burn
The nearby towns we route all lead on gas as well, so the regional pattern is consistent. It still does not tell you what is in your own house.
- Lehi 86% gas
- Payson 86% gas
- Kaysville 86% gas
- Mapleton 92% gas
- Bingham Canyon 87% 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. Plumbing of every description in Salt Lake City reaches us here.
Call (866) 871-2892