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Did you know that water expands when it is heated and that\u00a0is why your water heater has or should have an expansion tank.\u00a0\u00a0Yep, it\u2019s that little white or blue\u00a0tank that\u00a0is installed on the incoming cold water line on your water heater.\u00a0\u00a0Sooo, why does a water SOFTENER guy like\u00a0myself care about the water HEATER,\u00a0you ask?\u00a0\u00a0Because if that expansion tank is not there or if it\u2019s not working\u00a0correctly then it\u2019s going to be the water softener that expands and contracts\u00a0each time\u00a0you use hot water and that extra expansion isn\u2019t the best thing for a\u00a0water softener.\u00a0\u00a0It also helps to insure\u00a0that hot water has some place to go as it expands\u00a0besides back up the plumbing\u00a0and into the water softener which can cause catastrophic damage to a the\u00a0softener and won\u2019t be covered under warranty.\u00a0\u00a0At\u00a0Royal Water Systems it is one of the things we ALWAYS check for when\u00a0we do a free in-home estimates and we always make sure that it will be in the\u00a0plumbing\u00a0in-between the water softener and the water heater after installation\u00a0of the water softener.\u00a0\u00a0Going forward we\u00a0always check the expansion tank as a courtesy\u00a0each time we service a softener\u00a0or do filter changes in our customer\u2019s homes just to make sure there is no\u00a0threat to the water softener or eliminate the threat as\u00a0soon as it appears.\u00a0\u00a0As we replace water softeners a lot of times\u00a0we find that it was simply HOW the softener was installed that destroyed it\u00a0pre-maturely and if\u00a0we can help homeowners know what to look for, well that\u2019s a\u00a0win-win!\u00a0\u00a0www.rwatersystems.com<\/a>\u00a0801-850-1839<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that water expands when it is heated and that\u00a0is why your water heater has or should have an expansion tank.\u00a0\u00a0Yep, it\u2019s that little white or blue\u00a0tank that\u00a0is installed on the incoming cold water line on your water heater.\u00a0\u00a0Sooo, why does a water SOFTENER guy like\u00a0myself care about the water HEATER,\u00a0you ask?\u00a0\u00a0Because if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWater Heater Expansion Tanks \u2013 Why We Care - Royal Water Systems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rwatersystems.com\/water-heater-expansion-tanks-why-we-care\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water Heater Expansion Tanks \u2013 Why We Care - 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