Water Heater Repair & Installation

Water heaters rarely fail politely. They either stop making hot water on a weekday morning or they let go and empty forty gallons across the basement floor. Guardian Plumbing repairs, replaces and installs residential water heaters across Gladstone and the Kansas City Northland — gas and electric, conventional tank and tankless — and we'll tell you honestly which side of the repair-versus-replace line your unit sits on.

Plenty of "dead" water heaters are a thermocouple, a heating element, a thermostat or a gas control valve, and those are worth fixing on a unit that still has years in it. What isn't worth fixing is a tank rusting from the inside: once you see rusty hot water, weeping at the seam, or a puddle that keeps coming back, the steel is done and no part replaces that. Age matters too — most tanks in this area give eight to twelve years, and hard water doesn't extend that.

On a replacement we do the whole job properly, not just the swap: correct sizing for how many people actually live in the house, a new drain pan with correctly routed discharge, a thermal expansion tank where the system is closed, proper venting and combustion air on gas units, new flex connectors and a new shutoff, and the old unit hauled away. We'll set the temperature to a safe, efficient point and show you where the shutoff is — so if it ever does fail, you're not hunting for it with water on the floor.