Is it more typical to hire a plumbing company to buy the water heater for you and they deal with the warranty forever afterwards, or for people to buy a water heater from Home Depot/Lowes and just pay for installation?
The reason I ask is because the water heater itself seems to be $400-800, and I am finding plumbers who will install for a fixed fee, as opposed to paying $2000 for a purchase/install/warranty deal. The former is nearly half the price of the second.
What exactly am I buying, from whom, for what level of service? What I don’t understand is if the water heaters are warrantied by the manufacturer, what exactly I am getting if I pay for the “full deal” from a contractor company that “does it all”.
