Water Heater Installation in Ogden, UT
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Ogden asks a lot of a water heater
Winter nights here average 19°F from December through February, and homes need heat from September through June, ten months of the year. A water heater in a house like that is rarely off duty.
Weber County has also logged 60 winter storms and 81 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and across Utah about 7% of households went at least a day without power in 2024. A gas water heater with a standing pilot keeps working through an outage. One with electronic ignition needs power back before it lights again. Whatever you install has to meet the federal minimum efficiency for its size, and that minimum is set separately for each tank size, so the number that applies depends on the heater you choose.
- 19°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?
- Age is the first sign. Once a storage tank gets old, the tank itself starts to weaken from the inside, and that is not something a repair fixes. Look for rust colored water from the hot tap, moisture pooling around the base, or a tank that makes rumbling sounds as sediment builds up on the bottom. If you are calling a contractor out for the second or third time in a year, that is usually the tank telling you it is done, not the part that broke.
- Should I switch to a tankless water heater?
- It depends on what you want out of it, not on your house being unusual in any way. A tankless unit heats water only when you run a tap, so you are not paying to keep a tank of water hot all day, and you do not run out of hot water partway through back to back showers. What it will not do is deliver hot water any faster to a far off fixture, since that still depends on the length of pipe between the heater and the tap. A contractor can walk your home and tell you whether your gas line and venting can support one, since tankless units need more gas flow than a tank does.
- What changes when you install a tankless water heater?
- The biggest change is that the closet or corner holding your old tank opens up, since a tankless unit mounts on the wall and takes up a fraction of the space. Gas fired models usually need a larger gas line and a different vent than the tank they replace, because they draw more fuel to heat water on demand. The unit also needs power to run its controls and ignition, so if you lose electricity, a gas tankless heater stops working even though it runs on gas, unlike a standing pilot tank that keeps making hot water through an outage. That is worth knowing here, since some households in this state have gone a full day or more without power. A contractor will check your home's gas line, venting, and electrical setup before install to confirm what needs to change.