Bradford-White brand Water heater age decoding guide & water heater manual downloads.
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This water heater guide works with these brands: Bradford White, JetGlas, and some Superstor.
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Photo: Data tag details on a Bradford White water heater installed in Tucson, Arizona.
Serial No. DH9477405 decodes to D-2007 and H-August
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Bradford White water heater age is encloded as two letters in water heater's serial number as follows:
Current Bradford White water heater date code format: YM234567...
Beginning with A = 1964 or A = 1984o r for newer water heaters made after 2003, A = 2004
Ending with Z = 2003 or, for example, M = 2016 etc.
Notes to the Bradford White Water Heater age decoder table above:
Note that the letters I, O, Q, R, U are not used
Later model water heaters may replace letters with an actual year and month encoding as numeric digits.
Beginning with A = January and ending with M = December
Example: Bradford White water heater serial number ZJnnnnnnn = 2003, September
Note: in the month code the company encodes the month in A - M and does not make use of letters I, O, Q, R, U or V)
Jetglas water heaters made by Bradford White use the following date enoding:
YM1234567 encoding the year and month alphabetically using A-M for month (skipping the letter I) and a series of year-series for alphabetic letters.
Table of Bradford White Water Heater Year Codes |
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Year Code | Year of Manuacture |
A | 1984 or 2004 or [future] 2024 |
B | 1985 or 2005 |
C | 1986 or 2006 |
D | 1987 or 2007 |
E | 1988 or 2008 |
F | 1989 or 2009 |
G | 1990 or 2010 |
H | 1991 or 2011 |
J | 1992 or 2012 |
I | 1993 or 2013 |
K | 1994 or 2014 |
L | 1995 or 2015 |
M | 1996 or 2016 |
O | not used |
P | 1997 or 2017 |
Q, R | not used |
S | 1998 or 2018 |
T | 1999 or [future] 2019 |
U, V | not used |
W | 2000 or [future] 2020 |
X | 2001 or [future] 2021 |
Y | 2002 or [future] 2022 |
Z | 2003 or [future] 2023 |
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Table of Bradford White Water Heater Month Codes |
|
Month Code | Month of Manuacture |
A | January |
B | February |
C | March |
D | April |
E | May |
F | June |
G | July |
H | August |
J | Septmber |
K | October |
L | November |
M | December |
Note that to avoid confusion the letter I is not used.
Bradford White water heaters; also sold as Jetglas water heaters.
The Bradford White water heatr shown in our photo was installed in Port Angeles, Washington in 2011.
Photo: A Bradford White Defender Hydrojet gas water heater with ample combustion air supply, located in a basement utility closet, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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