Water heaters are not that expensive and not hard to pout in. I did the same thing about two years ago for maybe $300 Buck, less I think.
After reading the comments,it would seem that some are paying reasonable prices,but some are getting hosed beyond any reasonable belief. Must be some real thieves out there in the plumbing/electrical business. Maybe someone needs to explain to some of these installers that they shouldn’t expect to retire after a couple installations. Some of the prices I saw quoted were absolutely insane,although there are admittedly some installations not as simple as others & extra work could be required in certain instances.
That sucks. I’m sorry you got ripped off. Might want to make friends with a handy neighbor just to bargain for you next time. 80 gallon gas last year installed 900. I thought I got screwed.
My crazy Leftist town here in the NE made me get a building permit for a new HW heater. Cost $175. The second Civil War is coming.
OMG! We just get one at Lowe’s for $500 and Mr. GG2 installs it and the old one goes to the curb for the pickers. For $2400 we can get a whole new AC installed.
That’s some California type BS.
Depends what you had put in. We got a tank-less lg 1. So the cost was more, was it necessary, yes, ours was small 40 gal tank. Now we have endless hot water, and electric bill went down. We had Lowe’s do it, got it put in the contract we could pay with Gift Cards we bought at Kroger’s for the gas points, for 17 months we had $1.00 off gas per gallon per 35 gallons. Won either way, especially with the 10% Military discount added in. Little of $3k.
The kicker was my house was about 4 years old at the time.
Even if you paid my round trip air fare, while i donated my time to you as a friend, we still could have gotten you a new water heater installed for less than 1/2 of what you spent.