Sizing For Your Home
We work out the litres per minute you actually need from how many showers and taps run at the same time, so the water never goes cold mid-shower.
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Endless hot water that carries on working through load shedding, installed by a registered gas installer and certified properly. We size the unit to your home, place the cylinder where it complies, and hand you the Certificate of Conformity your insurer will ask for.
Tell us about your home and we will come back with an honest, upfront price, including the certificate.
A gas geyser is not a plug-in appliance. Done properly it is a certified installation, and every one of these steps is part of the price we quote you.
We work out the litres per minute you actually need from how many showers and taps run at the same time, so the water never goes cold mid-shower.
Cylinders go outdoors, upright and with the clearances SANS 10087-1 requires from doors, windows, vents and drains. We check this before quoting, not after.
Approved pipe, regulators and fittings, run neatly and pressure tested. No garden-hose improvisation on a fuel line.
Outdoor units on an external wall where possible. Where an indoor unit is the only option, it is flued and ventilated to the standard.
Hot and cold connected, isolating valves fitted, and the system balanced so pressure at the shower is what it should be.
Issued on completion and handed to you. This is the document your insurer wants, and the one asked for when the property is sold.
The reason we get asked about gas geysers has changed over the years. It used to be about running costs. Now the first thing most people in Durbanville say is that they are tired of a cold shower every time the power goes off. A gas geyser lights when you open the hot tap, so a household on gas carries on as normal through a stage 4 evening while the rest of the street waits for the electric tank to reheat.
The running cost argument is real but smaller than people expect, and it depends on what you pay for LPG against what you pay per unit of electricity. Where gas wins clearly is standing loss. An electric geyser keeps 150 litres hot around the clock, whether anyone is home or not, and in a cold roof space over a Cape winter that is a meaningful part of your bill. A gas unit heats nothing until you actually open a tap.
The catch is that the installation is a regulated job, and it is the part people underestimate. Cylinder placement is where most Durbanville quotes come unstuck, particularly on the tighter stands in the newer estates around Vierlanden, Uitzicht and Sonstraal Heights, where the convenient spot beside the kitchen door is often too close to a window or a drain to be certified. We would rather tell you that on the first visit than after the unit is on the wall.
Gas work in South Africa is not general plumbing. LPG installations must be done by an installer registered with SAQCC Gas and must meet SANS 10087-1, and a Certificate of Conformity is issued on completion.
Gas is not automatically the right answer. Here is where each one genuinely wins, so you can decide before you spend anything.
It keeps working when the power is off, and it never keeps a tank standing hot, so there is no standing loss on your bill.
A like-for-like electric replacement is cheaper to install, and if your geyser has just failed and money is tight, that matters.
If your goal is purely a lower bill rather than load shedding, a heat pump on the existing tank is often the better spend. We will say so.
Yes. LPG installations in South Africa must be done by an installer registered with SAQCC Gas, and the installation must comply with SANS 10087-1. On completion the installer issues a Certificate of Conformity. Without that certificate your insurer can decline a fire or damage claim, and the certificate is asked for when a property is sold. A gas geyser fitted by an unregistered handyman is a genuine insurance problem, not just a technicality.
Gas geysers are rated in litres per minute, not in litres of storage like an electric geyser. The number you need depends on how many hot taps or showers can run at once. As a rough guide a 16 L/min unit suits a small home running one shower at a time, 20 L/min suits a typical family bathroom plus a kitchen, and 26 L/min is for larger homes running two showers together. Undersizing is the most common mistake, and it shows up as water that goes cold the moment someone opens a second tap.
It usually costs less to run, but not always dramatically less, and the honest answer depends on your LPG price and your electricity tariff. The bigger wins for most Durbanville homes are that a gas geyser only heats water when you open the tap, so there is no tank standing hot all day losing heat, and it keeps working during load shedding. The installation costs more upfront than an electric geyser, so it makes most sense when you are replacing a geyser anyway or building.
Outdoors, upright, on a firm level base, in a well ventilated spot, and with the minimum clearances that SANS 10087-1 requires from doors, windows, air vents, drains and the boundary. That last part is what catches people out on the tighter stands in newer Durbanville estates, where the obvious spot next to the kitchen door often turns out to be non-compliant. We check placement on site before quoting, so you are not paying for a job that cannot be certified.
Some models can, but an indoor unit must be properly flued to the outside and the room has to be adequately ventilated, which is what makes indoor installs more involved and more expensive. Outdoor units on an external wall are simpler, cheaper and the usual choice. If your only practical position is indoors, we will tell you what the flueing will involve before you commit.
It will if the installation is compliant and certified. Keep the Certificate of Conformity somewhere you can find it, and give a copy to your insurer or broker. The certificate is the document that says a registered person installed the system to the standard, and it is the first thing an assessor asks for after any gas related incident.
The things that come up again and again in local reviews, and the things we care most about getting right.
You get the price before we start, so there is no surprise call-out fee on the invoice.
Quick call-outs across Durbanville and the northern suburbs during business hours.
Based in Durbanville and quick to reach right across the northern suburbs.
We treat your home with care and clean up before we leave.
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