Water heaters
Ramadan Drain CleaningWater heaters in Dasma
Water heaters in Dasma, one of the closest areas to the city center, serve many small flats and villas, and most have one heater feeding hot water to the bathrooms and kitchen. Dasma is an older residential area, with homes pressed tightly together, and heaters sit on the roof or in narrow passages between houses.
Heater or plumbing
When the fault isthe heater.
Before you call, these signs tell you whether the fault sits in the heater itself or out in the pipework.
01
Cold at every tap
If the hot water goes at all the bathrooms and the kitchen together, one thing feeds them all and that is the central heater. One cold bathroom with the rest still hot is a mixer or a branch, not the cylinder.
02
The breaker keeps tripping
A breaker that drops every time the heater switches on is not a house wiring fault. The element sheath has failed and is letting current into the water, so the answer is a new element, not pushing the switch back up.
03
It runs out early
The cylinder gives less hot water than it used to before it turns cold. Scale settles out of Kuwaiti water and builds on the tank floor, taking up volume inside it, so the usable draw is smaller than the tank was built for.
04
Water under the heater
Water on the floor under a heater is either a pipe joint or the body of the cylinder itself. A joint is remade. A weep from the tank body means the steel has gone through and the heater is replaced, not repaired.
This area
What setsthis area apart
Dasma has old apartment blocks and tiny villas pressed together, and the distance from the heater to the furthest hot tap in the home is very short. But old and narrow pipework is an issue, and the heaters themselves are aged and many need constant repair. The narrow passages between Dasma villas make external maintenance tricky, and access to the heater is tight, so sometimes we lower the heater from the roof to work on it.
Dasma sits in Kuwait governorate, an older residential area close to downtown.
Homes in Dasma are tightly packed, so most heaters sit on roofs and the distance to the furthest bathroom is short.
At a glance
Heaters, in short.
Field
Central water heater repair, servicing and installation
Heater type
Central cylinders in houses, flats and chalets
What it covers
Elements, thermostats, flushing and descaling, and new installs
Coverage
All six governorates and every area inside them
Hours
Daily, 6:00 in the morning to 12:00 midnight
The method
From the call tohot water.
The same order on any heater, whether the job turns out to be a repair, a flush or a new fit.
You describe it on the call
Tell us whether the heater is stone cold or just weak, when it changed, and whether the breaker drops. Those three answers decide between an element, a thermostat and a flush.
We isolate power and water
The heater breaker goes off and the cold feed valve is closed before anything is opened. No cover comes off a live element and no thermostat is touched while the cylinder is under pressure.
We test before we swap
We read the element and thermostat terminals and look at the state of the tank inside, then tell you exactly what has failed before any part is changed.
We refill, vent and test
The cylinder is filled and the air bled off at the highest hot tap before the power goes back on, then we run a hot tap in front of you and watch it hold its temperature.
Common questions
Questions about Water heaters in Dasma
No, a heater does not need large space, but Dasma roofs are cramped and cluttered. We check the space first and tell you if there is not enough room or if we need to move things.
First we check if the water is from your heater or the roof gutter. If it is from the heater, we remove it, fix the leak and install it properly. Dasma's narrow passages make this problem common.
Other services
Other services in Dasma
Other work we do in the same area.