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Water Heater Repair in Maine

Every one of the 12 Maine towns we route calls in leads on fuel oil. That makes the fault list unusually predictable here — though not what is in your own house.

Answer first

Maine covers 12 towns here, of which 12 lead on fuel oil. The weighted shares are 21% gas, 9% electricity and 63% fuel oil — house heating fuel, which is the closest free proxy for what heats the water.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.

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What Maine burns

Weighted across 55,974 occupied housing units in the areas we cover:

Fuel	Share of households
Gas — mains and bottled	21%
Electricity	9%
Fuel oil and kerosene	63%
Everything else	6%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 counts what heats the house, which predicts but does not measure what heats the water.

The largest towns we route

Town	Leads on	Share	Households
Biddeford	Fuel Oil	65%	9,982
Saco	Fuel Oil	64%	8,851
Sanford	Fuel Oil	67%	7,236
Wells	Fuel Oil	56%	5,006
York	Fuel Oil	63%	4,550
Kittery	Fuel Oil	57%	4,060
Berwick	Fuel Oil	69%	3,497
Kennebunkport	Fuel Oil	58%	3,405

Checking a plumber in Maine

Maine licenses are issued by the Maine Plumbers' Examining Board, Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

Towns we route in Maine

Alfred fuel oil · 69% of households
Berwick fuel oil · 69% of households
Biddeford fuel oil · 65% of households
Eliot fuel oil · 62% of households
Kennebunkport fuel oil · 58% of households
Kittery fuel oil · 57% of households
Ogunquit fuel oil · 67% of households
Saco fuel oil · 64% of households
Sanford fuel oil · 67% of households
South Berwick fuel oil · 64% of households
Wells fuel oil · 56% of households
York fuel oil · 63% of households

Know the fuel and the symptom? That is most of the call.Gas and electric heaters fail in almost entirely different ways, so saying which you have gets you to the right person faster. We route the call and never charge you for it. Water heaters are what we write about; the number goes further.

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