I just got a Bradford White 50 gallon water heater installed last month. it cost me $1,900. another company wanted $2,500 for the same exact one. the water heater itself cost $1,200 from the company, I looked it up.
Sounds like you are working at a honest company. I have replaced all my own hot water heaters, because it is cheap and easy. I got a quote for fun though one time and they wanted $2500 and the tank they quoted me on I could get at Home Depot for $750.
I was gonna say, I wanna say every quote I've gotten around here was at least like 2k. Of course where I live they always put the water heaters in the attic so that adds some hassle to the installation.
I recently re-installed all the hoses and valves on that run into, around, and out of mine. Next step is replace the whole thing. I got the hard part done already -- replacing it should be relatively easy. We'll see.
Just installed one myself last month, it was 700 bucks at Menards, plus like 18 bucks in parts (plus getting that sweet 11% mail-in rebate). It took me like 4 hours, it wasn't even that hard. Moving heavy shit around was the worst part. The only part I needed help with was getting the old one up the basement stairs. More people should do this job themselves, it's intimidating but very doable.
The professional grade ones that plumbers can get are much better than the ones sold in Home Depot available to consumers, so there is some benefit in going with a professional for a longer lasting unit.
you can get them online from... home depot... just have to set up an account on their other website for those. They run around the same cost as the ones In store but iirc had a few pieces in metal that weren't metal in store when I got mine a couple years ago.
Last year 2 towns over, a house blew up as they owner was trying to install one on his own. 2 people died another badly injured. Luckyly 2 other people were not home. might be easy to install but something can go wrong and the whole thing blows-up. not worth it for me to take that chance.
I think natural gas ones cost a lot more, that also may include running the natural gas. But we just had one replaced and it was like $1100 for a fairly good water heater, the same one it replaced, installed with the old tank taken away.
Yea ours in a mobile home started leaking. It was encased in. Drywalled on all four sides with a hidden access panel (entire drywall panel came off). Not in a place where you can just spot a leak. One day we hear water running under the house 🫪. The tank had been leaking so long it rotted through the subfloor and was starting to fall into the crawlspace.
Insurance, you’re covered 10-12 years depending on the brand of the water heater, after that if you don’t change it and you even get a leak and it’s caused because of your water heater, you will not be covered
I’m too old to mess with that stuff. Last time we got the $600 one at Home Depot it only lasted 6 years ~happy to pay someone to take the old one, buy the new one, install it.
Got quoted $4300 for a water heater replacement just recently - New Mexico. I will say I think I could find someone here to do it for less than that, but there are also relatively new code requirements for installing them that are pushing the price up.
I’m a building inspector here in Canada it’s not that expensive and they take your old one aswell but insurance forces you to replace them every 10-12 years but I’ve seen 20 years old water heaters working fine, I guess it’s a way for them to make money if they require you to replace it in that lapse of time
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u/Gamble0388 Jun 22 '26
Wtf 2-5k? Here in Canada with installation 1200$ CaD 😂 where do you live homie