Water Heater Installation in Logan, UT
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What Logan water heaters are up against
Homes here need heat from September through June, 10 months a year, and the water entering your tank is cold along with everything else. Winter nights average 17°F from December through February, so the tank is working hardest to raise that cold water right when the rest of the house is asking the most of it too.
Power is part of the picture here too. Utah saw 7% of households go at least 24 hours without power in 2024, and the county has logged 48 winter storms and 46 damaging wind events over the past ten years. A standing pilot water heater keeps working through an outage since it needs no power to run, while most other types shut down and start back up on their own once power returns. Whatever you install has to meet the federal minimum efficiency for its size and type, and that minimum is set separately for each tank size rather than as one number for every water heater.
- 17°F
- the average winter night, and colder incoming water means longer heating
- 10 months
- September through June, the months homes here need heat
- 7%
- of Utah households lost power for a day or more in 2024, and a heater with an electric element or electric ignition stops without it
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A heat pump water heater would save about $320 a year to run in Utah compared with an electric water heater.
Estimates for a typical Utah home, from EIA household energy data and Utah fuel prices. Your home will differ.
- How do I know it's time to replace my water heater?
- If your water heater is old enough that you're wondering, that's already a sign to get it looked at. Rust colored water, a tank rusting on the outside, or water pooling underneath mean the tank itself is failing, and a leaking tank gets replaced, not repaired. Rumbling noises or hot water that runs out faster than it used to point to sediment built up inside, and that only gets worse. Winters here are cold enough that a water heater failing in the middle of one is a real problem, so if you're seeing any of these signs, have a contractor check it before it goes out on its own.
- Should I switch to a tankless water heater?
- That depends on what you want from it, not on your home. A tankless unit heats water as you use it instead of storing it, so you don't run out partway through a shower, and it isn't keeping a tank of water hot around the clock when nobody's using it. It also needs a different gas line and venting than a storage tank, so switching is a bigger job than a straight tank swap. A contractor can tell you what your home would need to make the switch.
- What changes when you install a tankless water heater?
- The unit itself is much smaller and usually goes on a wall instead of standing on the floor, so you get that floor space back. Gas fired tankless units need a bigger gas line than a tank does, since they're heating water fast rather than gradually, and they need venting sized for that higher output. You stop running out of hot water when the house is busy, because it's heating water on the spot instead of drawing down a tank. Since the gas and venting needs are different from a storage tank, a contractor has to check what's already there before installing one.