Understanding Your Water Heater’s First-Hour Rating
The last time we wrote about water heaters, we covered the appliance’s energy factor and how to understand it. If you’re researching new water heaters for your home, there’s plenty of information to digest, and as plumbing experts in San Jose, Gladiator wants to help you make the best decision. Another factor that’s very important […]
Copper Pipes Can Keep Up with Your Water Demand
Everyone that has to get up early for work looks forward to taking a hot shower, making a cup of coffee, and feeling awake before heading out the door. If you’re the first one up in your house, you get the first hot water of the day, but if there are three or four others […]
Understanding Your Water Heater’s Energy Factor
Your water heater’s energy factor (EF) is determined by how much of the fuel from your power source – usually gas or electricity – is converted into usable hot water. The EF includes several factors, such as recovery efficiency, standby losses, and cycling losses. Obviously, the higher the energy factor, the more efficient your water […]
Quality Craftsmanship To Go With Quality Piping
When you’re having new plumbing installed in your home, you’re counting on the technicians being skilled, and that they’re using only the highest quality materials. At Gladiator Repipe, we believe in using quality products, but we also believe that every technician should have the expertise to do a first-rate job every time they install a […]
Is Your Hot Water Too Hot?
When people hire a professional for water heater repair, it’s usually because the water in their home isn’t hot enough, or the water pressure has dropped significantly. At Gladiator Repipe in San Jose, these problems represent a majority of the repair calls that we receive, however, there is the occasional call where the customer’s water […]
We Only Use Quality Copper Piping
If you’ve lived in a house that had copper piping, you know how reliable it can be. If, for some reason, one of those pipes broke or came loose from a fitting, you most likely began to question that reliability. The fact of the matter is, not all copper piping is the same, and if […]
We Can Repair Both Common and Complex Water Heater Issues
When you get up in the morning and head to the shower, you expect to have a steady flow of warm water come from the faucet or showerhead when you turn it on. If that’s not the case, your day can quickly take a turn as you begin to worry about your hot water heater. Often, […]
Copper Piping is a Stronger Option
Copper piping is a suitable replacement for old galvanized pipes, as it won’t sag or separate over time, and can outlast the life of a home. At Gladiator Repipe in San Jose, we can improve your home’s plumbing with repiping services that improve your water pressure, decrease your monthly water bill, and increase the amount […]
Leave Plenty of Space Around Your Water Heater
As a child, you most likely attended school assemblies on fire prevention and perhaps even visited your local fire station to learn about fire safety. You grew up knowing that plugging too many things into an outlet or extension cord could lead to an electrical fire, or that an unattended stove could lead to a catastrophic […]
You’ve Finally Decided to Install a Tankless Water Heater, Now Which One to Get?
If you’ve watched your water and energy bills go up every month for the past few months, you may have decided that it’s finally time to replace that old standard water heater with a tankless hot water heater. While some homeowners may be hesitant to purchase a tankless heater because of the price, others are […]
