Replacement of Electric Water Heater Elements

There’s a 90 percent chance that simply replacing one or both of the heating elements will solve the problem, if your electric hot water heater is slow to heat, or doesn’t deliver any hot water at all or runs out of hot water faster than it used to do. Here share you the step by step guide of Replacement of Electric Water Heater Elements.

If your heater is approaching old age, replacement may be smarter than repair; heaters have a typical lifespan of 10 to 15 years. If you have to replace your heating element check our site for the exact replacement of your heating element of the water heater. As PartsFPS- UK is the leading distributor of the Water Heater Heating Element Parts and Accessories across all the countries of Europe and UK.

Here we go for the replacement of the faulty heating element:

Diagnosing Heating Element Problems

To tell which heating element is faulty, it is usually easy. For example, you can detect that your defective upper heating element if there is a constant supply of lukewarm water during a shower whereas you can identify a defective lower heating element when there a short supply of fully hot water

Replacing heating elements is a relatively easy project. But make sure that choose the replacement part as the ones currently in the water heater means the new heating elements must be of the same style and voltage/wattage rating

Removing the heating element:

• By turning off the circuit breaker or fuse powering the heater, turn off power to the electric water heater at the main power panel.
• Next step is to drain the water heater.
• Fold the insulation outward and away from the heater element, by removing the access cover panel and insulation which covers the heating element terminal block.
• Make sure that attachment point from the thermostat is disengaged.