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
Shamiya is a mixed district on the Fifth Ring Road, with medium villas and apartment blocks side by side, and heaters are scattered across small villa roofs and small plant rooms in blocks. Older villas in the area have aged steel lines with some corrosion, and newer blocks have clean copper pipes but tight access space. Traffic vibration on the Fifth Ring Road travels through the ground, and heaters in lower storeys of blocks sometimes suffer uneven water pressure. We need to check expansion tanks and isolation valves on the main line regularly.
Shamiya is a mixed district in Kuwait governorate at the Fifth Ring Road junction, with villas and residential blocks.
Heaters in Shamiya are spread across villas and blocks in the same area, and old lines in villas suffer more corrosion than newer pipes in apartment buildings.
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 Shamiya
A villa has one independent heater on its roof, a flat shares a central heater with other units. A villa cylinder needs sediment flushing annually, a flat requires checking of individual isolation valves so they do not stick and cut off pressure.
Most often the pressure is low because the heater is old or air is in the line, or your flat's valve is not fully open. We service the valve or we bleed air from the pipes.
Nearby areas
More areas for Water heaters
Same service, in nearby areas.
Other services
Other services in Shamiya
Other work we do in the same area.