Water Heater Repair in Epsom, NH

What Epsom runs on

Oil is the plurality here. That raises a question the rest of the country rarely asks — whether your hot water comes from a heater at all, or from the boiler.

Figures from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year estimates, table B25040, 2023 release, covering 1,998 occupied housing units across Epsom.

That is 25 points lower than New Hampshire as a whole, which is a real difference rather than a rounding one.

One caveat, because it matters: the Census measures the fuel a household heats the HOUSE with, not the fuel it heats WATER with. The two track each other closely — a gas line to the furnace usually feeds the tank as well — but they are not the same number.

Propane rather than mains gas

Propane outweighs mains gas in this town. That is worth saying because an empty tank looks exactly like a failed heater from inside the house, and the burner is not interchangeable with a natural-gas one.

Bottled and tank gas accounts for 27% of households here, and the survey records none at all on mains gas.

Which one do you have

Check for a flue. Gas heaters vent; electric heaters have nothing to vent and carry element access panels on the side instead. The fuel decides the fault list, so start there rather than with the symptom.

Take the symptom next: no hot water, too little, rumbling, or leaking — only the last one is an emergency.

ZIP codes we route in Epsom

• 03234

Nearby towns, and what they burn

Fuel is not uniform across a region. Two of the nearby towns we route lead on something other than fuel oil, which is why a diagnosis that fits one town does not travel.

• Alton 64% fuel oil
• East Kingston 53% fuel oil
• Hillsborough 47% fuel oil
• Plaistow 48% gas
• Dover 49% gas