how can you tell if you have a gas or electric water heater?
2007-09-18 09:28:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
One easy way is to look for a flue pipe going to a chimney coming out the center of the top of it. (It is big, 3 or 4 inches in diameter.) If there is a flue pipe coming out of the top, it is gas. There will also be a black gas pipe going to the lower front of the heater.
If it's electric, there will not be a flue pipe, and there WILL be a heavy electric wire coming out of it.
~Cindy! :)
2007-09-18 12:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by ♛ CindyBradyTooh ♛ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A gas water heater will have a gas line going a gas valve near the bottom of the tank. It will have a dial to set the heat level. An electric water heater will have only an electric cable going in, with no dial or external adjustment devices.
See the links below. The first is gas, the second is electric.
2007-09-18 16:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by stever002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very simple a electric water heater has two pipes on top and a electric cable a gas heater has two pipes on top and one black pipe on the side near the floor
2007-09-18 16:37:58 · answer #3 · answered by randall g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will either have a gas pipe or an electric wire running to it.
2007-09-18 16:37:08 · answer #4 · answered by billy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it connected to an electric wire? or a gas line pipe.
2007-09-18 16:35:22 · answer #5 · answered by morris 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it has a gas line running to it; it is gal.
If not it is electric
It should say on the front of the water heater what it is.
or how many kilowatts it is using; if it shows kilowatts, it is electric
2007-09-18 16:38:08 · answer #6 · answered by llittle mama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋