American water heater rating plates are easy to read.
American water heater age by serial number.
If the label is missing or the installation date is not listed you can use the serial number to determine the age of your unit.
On older models you can determine the age of your unit by decoding the water heater serial number.
Some manufacturers including rheem made it easy by incorporating the month and year built into the first 4 digits of the serial number.
Smith acquired american water heaters gsw in april of 2006.
American water heaters was founded in 1996.
Water heater serial number decoder manufacturer brand serial ex.
Serial 1 st 4 digits.
They consist of 10 digits the first two of which tell the year and the second two of which tell you the week of the year.
8901xxx made in the year 1989 in the first month january.
Please help me find the american water heater age model eg2 50r 9450 serial number 9919123173 product number 0920588.
Craftmaster and whirlpool brand water heaters.
Check for a manufacturer label on the side of your water heater this should include the installation date.
A truflo water heater was made by american tru test or tru value water heaters or by u s.
Craftmaster water heater s can be determined from the serial number.
It is probably time to get it serviced.
Other manufacturers use different formats but in a similar fashion.
The date of production manufacture or age of u s.
From 2002 2006 gsw canada was the parent company of american.
Serial number styles formats found are.
1 st 2 nd.
Serial 1 st 4 digits.
American was acquired by a o.
American water heaters makes units that are sold under many other brand names.
So the water heater with the data plate shown below is from 2000.
How to determine the date of production manufacture or age of american water heater s from the serial number.
To determine the age of another manufacturer brand of water heater go to how do i determine the age of my water heater.
Smith in 2001 and currently only manufactures american american pro line premium plus u s.
This means a serial number starting with 9835 would have been made in the 35 th week of 1998.
1 st 2 nd number year 3 rd 4 th number month.
Energysaver golden knight knight.
Johnwood gsw moffat superflue medal.
Craftsmaster then the age is encoded in the serial number as follows.
American water heaters water heater age.
Key american prior to 2001 american was owned by gsw corporation and manufactured water heaters for nearly 50 different brands.
For instance the picture below shows that this rheem water heater was manufactured in december of 1991 1291.