New Electric Geysers
The everyday replacement, 100, 150 or 200 litres sized to the household, installed level with a new tray, overflow and pressure control valve.
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Geyser installation in Paarl, done to SANS 10254 and finished properly: old unit out and disposed of, new one mounted level, drip tray and overflow routed where they should go, and the vacuum breakers and pressure control valve fitted rather than reused. Electric, solar, heat pump or gas, with the price agreed before we start.
Tell us the size of your household and what is up there now, and we will come back with an honest, upfront price for the unit and the installation.
Four ways to heat water, and honest advice about which of them is actually worth it for your house.
The everyday replacement, 100, 150 or 200 litres sized to the household, installed level with a new tray, overflow and pressure control valve.
Direct and indirect solar systems for Paarl roofs, sized to your usage and mounted where the Boland sun actually reaches them through winter.
Roughly a third of the electricity of an element, working in any weather and needing no roof space, retrofitted to your existing tank or supplied complete.
Instant gas water heating that never notices load-shedding, installed and certified. See our gas installations page.
Moving a geyser out of a cramped ceiling into a serviceable position, or plumbing hot water into a cottage or extension that never had it.
When a tank has let go, replacement is usually the answer and often an insurance job. We handle it end to end, including the paperwork.
Most geysers in Paarl do not die of old age. They die of water. The granite groundwater coming off Paarl Mountain runs hard, and the boreholes that so many homes drilled after the drought are harder still. Hard water lays scale down inside the tank and bakes it onto the element, and a scaled element runs hotter to do the same work until it fails and takes the tank with it. That is why the sacrificial anode matters far more here than the installation manual makes it sound, and why we size and specify with the local water in mind rather than fitting whatever is on the van.
The second thing that shortens a geyser's life in this valley is pressure. Down on the flat near the Berg River, in parts of Amstelhof and Klein Nederburg, the static pressure runs high enough to work a tank hard every day of its life. A standard geyser is protected by a 400 kPa pressure control valve, and if the incoming pressure sits above that without a pressure-reducing valve in front of it, you are buying your next geyser early. We check the pressure as part of any installation, because there is no sense hanging a new tank on a supply that killed the last one.
And then there is the boring part that causes the expensive damage: the drip tray and the overflow. A geyser in a ceiling will eventually leak, that is what the tray is for, but a tray that drains to nowhere, or an overflow that discharges into the roof space instead of outside where you can see it, turns a slow failure into a ceiling on the floor. It is the single most common thing we find wrong on installations done in a hurry, and it costs nothing to do properly the first time.
Our base is in Paarl in Lemoenkloof, so geyser installation runs right across the valley: Paarl and Mbekweni, Wellington, Windmeul and Klapmuts, the estates from Boschenmeer and Pearl Valley through to Val de Vie, and on to Simondium, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch.
A geyser is a fifteen-year decision. These are the things that make it last that long.
Unit and labour quoted as separate lines, agreed before we start.
Same-day replacement wherever we can when a tank has burst.
We know what the hard Boland water does to a tank, and we specify for it.
Tray, overflow and safety valves done properly, not reused to save an hour.
What Paarl homeowners ask us most before putting in a new geyser.
The unit itself is the biggest single number, and it moves with size and type: a 150 litre electric geyser is the everyday case, while solar and heat pump systems cost several times that up front and pay it back on the electricity bill. On top of the unit sits the installation: removing and disposing of the old one, the drip tray and overflow, the vacuum breakers, the pressure control valve and the isolator. We quote the unit and the labour as separate lines so you can see exactly what you are paying for, and the price is agreed before we start. Our plumbing prices page explains how we price generally.
It depends on how your household uses hot water. Solar suits Paarl well, the Boland summer is generous, but it needs roof space facing the right way and a structure that can carry the weight. A heat pump works in any weather, uses roughly a third of the electricity of an element and needs no roof, but it is not silent. Gas heats only what you draw and keeps working when the power does not, which is why so many Paarl homes moved to it. We look at your roof, your usage and your budget and tell you honestly which of the three is worth it for you.
Yes, geyser installation at Pearl Valley, Val de Vie, Boschenmeer and the surrounding estates is regular work for us. Estate installations usually mean booking access at the gate, working to the estate's hours and leaving the paperwork with the managing agent, and we handle that as part of the job. The units on those estates are often roof-space or ceiling installations where the drip tray and overflow routing matter far more than most people realise.
A straight electric replacement in an accessible position is usually a half-day job, and you will have hot water again the same afternoon. A first-time installation, a move to a new position, or a solar or heat pump system takes longer, typically a full day and sometimes two, because there is new pipework, mounting and in the solar case roof work involved. We tell you which it is when we quote, not when we arrive.
If the tank itself has gone, replacement is the only real answer, a leaking tank cannot be repaired. If it is an element, a thermostat or a T&P valve on a unit under about eight years old, repair is usually the sensible call and far cheaper. Past ten or twelve years, especially on hard borehole water, we will normally tell you to put the money into a new unit rather than a second repair. Our geyser repair page covers the repair side.
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