
We want to help you understand the difference between homeowners insurance and home protection plans.

You depend on your home’s water heater for showers, dishwashing, cleaning, laundry, and more. Access to hot water is crucial for your daily life. Unfortunately, water heaters can fail unexpectedly, regardless of their age or brand.
If you’re enrolled in our Water Heater Repair Plan, getting help is easy. Just call our customer care line anytime, day or night, and we’ll connect you with a local, experienced, pre-qualified service provider. Whether your water heater is gas, electric, or oil-fueled—traditional or tankless—we’ll help you get it fixed with just one phone call.
Important: If you smell natural gas in your home, leave immediately. Do not operate anything that could cause a spark, including lights, cell phones, flashlights, and appliances. From a safe location, call 911 and your local utility, which will dispatch a crew to check on the source of the odor and make the area safe.

Columbia Service Partners™* offers optional repair and maintenance plans to homeowners. These plans are administered by Oncourse Home Solutions, one of the nation's leading providers of optional protection programs. The plans provide piece of mind for customers by helping protect them from the costs associated with unexpected repairs. Columbia Service Partners™* is not affiliated with Columbia Gas®.
The Water Heater Repair Plan is an economical way to safeguard your home's water heater. This plan offers repair services (including parts and labor) if your water heater has a mechanical or electrical failure or defect. If the unit cannot be repaired, reimbursement toward a replacement is part of the plan. For more details, please refer to our Customer Agreement.
Standard homeowners insurance typically doesn't cover water repairs, which means you'll need to handle any necessary fixes on your own. By signing up for the Water Heater Repair Plan, you can access coverage that goes beyond what regular homeowners insurance offers.
If your home's water heater fails, you and your family will be stuck with cold showers or baths, and cold water to wash your hands, dishes and laundry. Water Heater repairs can be costly, but Columbia Service Partners™* is here to help. We take care of everything for you, from finding a contractor to managing the repair process, ensuring a hassle-free experience.
Providing top-notch service is our top priority. We partner with local, insured independent contractors to take care of your repair needs, and all our work is guaranteed. If you have any questions, please contact us.
The Water Heater Repair Plan covers your home's water heater when it fails. Our techs service traditional or tankless models — gas, electric, or oil-fueled. There are no restrictions on the age or brand of your water heater for it to be eligible for coverage. Service appointments have no deductibles or trip charges, and repairs are performed by local, experienced, vetted service providers.
Your coverage will start 30 days after your enrollment is completed. You'll find all the details in the welcome packet that you receive once you enroll.
If you decide you no longer want to maintain your protection with us, you can call 855-800-5195 any time, day or night, and select the option to cancel your protection. When you are connected to one of our agents, tell them that you wish to cancel your protection. The agent will ask you some questions to verify your account information and will be able to assist you with the cancellation.
Through your online account: There a few simple steps to follow if cancelling your protection online:
If you cancel your protection within the first 30 days after your new program enrollment was processed, you will be entitled to a full refund of all program fees you have paid. This refund will be issued within 30 days of cancellation.
For all other customers:
If you are paying monthly for your protection, your program cancellation will take effect at the end of your monthly billing cycle and you will not receive money back. Protection under your contract will continue through the end of your monthly billing cycle, regardless of when you cancel within the cycle.
If you are paying annually for your protection, your program cancellation will take effect at the end of the current billing month within your annual term, and you will receive a refund for the remainder of your annual term. Your refund will be credited to the same payment method you used to make your annual payment.
If you pay your Columbia Service Partners charges through your utility company's monthly bill and wish to cancel your protection, let us know of your cancellation request by phone or in your online account with us (see specifics above). Once we process your cancellation request, we will notify your utility company that we are no longer requesting payment from them for your cancelled protection. Depending on how Columbia Service Partners and your utility company's billing cycles align and whether your utility company bills for services after they are provided, a charge may still appear on your next one to two utility bills. Rest assured that once we have processed your cancellation request, we will not ask your utility for any additional payments for your protection, and you will only be charged for months you received protection.
Note: If you close your utility account, or if you do not pay your utility bill in full each month, your coverage with us may be canceled as a result.
After your protection cancellation request is processed, the cancellation will take effect at the end of your current monthly Columbia Service Partners billing cycle. Until that date, your protection will remain active and you will be eligible to make a claim if needed.
Yes. If you change your mind and want to re-enroll in protection, just let us know. Depending on your selected program(s), you may need to wait 30 days for your new protection to become effective, and pre-existing conditions are not covered.
If you do not have an automatic payment method on file, or if your account is not set to automatically renew, you may receive a notice requesting you to renew your coverage for another year. Please respond to your notice to renew your coverage. Not responding will result in your coverage being canceled.
If you received a piece of mail, email, or postcard indicating you had a failed payment, it is because we were unable to successfully process your payment using the method we have on file. To avoid a lapse in your coverage, please contact us and set up another payment method.