Water heaters
Ramadan Drain CleaningWater heaters in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
Water heater repair and installation in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh usually starts when the heater cuts out and hot water dies at every tap at once. Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh is a dense residential district in Farwaniya, with six, seven and eight-storey blocks where one central cylinder serves many flats.
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
Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh blocks are mostly built in the eighties and nineties, and the central heater sits in a dedicated room on the ground or first floor, with hot water pipes rising from there to all the flats above. Electrical wiring and pipework run close together, so the technician works carefully and checks the riser valve, the flat's isolation valve and the heater's core components before any repair. Upper flats need higher pressure, so we inspect the thermostat and the control board.
Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh sits in Farwaniya governorate, a dense residential district of medium-rise apartment blocks.
Most heaters in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh blocks are rated at one hundred or one hundred and fifty litres, because the occupancy is high and the flats are many.
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 Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
The flat's isolation valve might be partly closed or the heater is not heating properly. We check the main valve, the thermostat and the pipes from the ground floor to the flat, because they can get clogged with sediment.
Yes, we check the anode, the electrical connections and the pressure. About every six months we open the heater and remove sediment that builds up inside from the water.
Other services
Other services in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
Other work we do in the same area.