About Ray Hubbard Water Heaters

Ray Hubbard Water Heaters takes one kind of job: putting a water heater into a Rowlett home. That covers 12 services, from a like-for-like gas or electric tank to a hybrid heat pump unit, a tankless conversion, an expansion tank or a heater moved to a new spot.

Anything that is not a water heater is somebody else's job, and we say so on the first call. One job keeps the quote short: the unit, the labor, any code items and the removal of the old heater.

Every service has its own page: start at all 12 services, or at water heater replacement if the old one has failed.

Rowlett had 62,535 residents in the 2020 census, across Dallas and Rockwall counties, and its housing was built over a long stretch. Listing records show a 1983 house in Dalrock Estates, 1990 to 1998 houses in Lakeshore Park Estates, about 2000 to 2005 in Waterview, 2015 in the Vineyards, 2018 in Homestead at Liberty Grove and new builds at Lake Shore Village from 2026.

The Department of Energy gives a storage tank 10 to 15 years. Dividing a house's age by that range gives a rough count of the heaters it has been through, which is our arithmetic and not a measurement. It is why we ask for the date on the label before anything else.

On December 26, 2015 an EF-3 tornado struck Rowlett. The city's first damage assessment counted 1,000 homes, 854 of them impacted and 148 totally destroyed. Any heater fitted in a house rebuilt since then can be at most 11 years old. See what the 2015 tornado means for a heater's age.

The ranges below are our own estimates, not quotes. They tell you what to expect on the call. The written quote is the price: it lists the unit, the labor, any permit, any code updates and the removal of the old heater, before work starts.

What moves a price inside a range is rarely the heater. It is the attic access, the vent, the gas line or circuit, and the code items the house needs. A like-for-like tank takes 3 to 5 hours on site.

The cost guide is what water heater installation costs in Rowlett.

The shop is at 5311 Boyd Blvd, Rowlett, TX 75088. In a straight line it is 0.4 miles from Main Street in Downtown Rowlett and 5.4 miles from Trails at Cottonwood Creek, the farthest area on our list. Those are great-circle miles worked out from OpenStreetMap coordinates, so driving is a little longer.

Rowlett sits in two counties and two school districts: Garland ISD in Dallas County and Rockwall ISD in Rockwall County. Our pages cover both sides.

The full list of 21 is on the contact page, and each area has its own page under service areas.

Plumbing done for a customer in Texas requires a license from the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners. Installs here are done by a plumber licensed that way. Ask for the license number on the call and look it up at tsbpe.texas.gov before anyone opens a wall.

The permit side is set by the city. Texas cities can amend the model codes by ordinance, so the rule is Rowlett's to state.

More on this: how to choose a water heater installer in Texas.

Each of the 12 service pages and 21 area pages ends with a numbered list of sources, and every statistic carries its source under it. Numbers come from a named source, from our own estimated price ranges, or from arithmetic whose formula is shown on the page.

Where sources disagree, or a figure could not be confirmed, the page says so instead of picking one. The facts were last checked in October 2026.

Your own numbers are better than ours. How to read your water heater label shows where to find them.