Hot Water - How Fast? A few options to getting instant - or near instant-hot water

摘要

When you turn on the hot water faucet, how fast do you expect hot water to arrive? Better yet, how long does your customer expect to wait? The hot water supply has been impacted by the change in lifestyle, the increase in the size of homes, and the increase in the number of plumbing fixtures. In the good ole days, someone was always home running the plumbing fixtures on a periodic basis. The hot water always seemed to be there after a few seconds. Today, we disappear from our homes for hours at a time. When we return, we turn on the hot water at the most remote location and wait, and wait, and wait, for the hot water to arrive. When we build larger homes, or even condominiums, with more plumbing fixtures, the size of the hot water piping increases. So does the length of piping. After being away for a period of time, the hot water in the piping system is cold. You must first bleed this cold water to get to the hot water. Besides being annoying, it is wasting a considerable amount of precious water.