Best Home Improvements – Home Improvement Idea for Your Kitchen and Bath
Best Home Improvements – Home Improvement Idea for Your Kitchen and Bath
William J. Lund
Best Home Improvements – Home Improvement Idea for Your Kitchen and Bath
If your home has long hot water pipes then it can take a long time to get hot water, which can be quite annoying. However, an easy, low cost solution to get you your hot water much more quickly is available. It’s a solution that speeds up your hot water, and saves you thousands of gallons of water a year.
A hot water demand system is the answer. Hot water demand systems are small pumps located under a sink furthest from your hot water heater. When you want hot water you just push a button and the system speeds the hot water from your hot water heater to your fixture without running water down the drain.
The water that has cooled off in the hot water pipes, is returned to the water heater through the cold water pipes. When the hot water reaches the the pump at the fixture it stops pumping and no hot water gets into the cold water pipes. Turn on your hot water and you have nearly instant hot water.
Other fixtures that share the same main hot water trunk line will also have faster hot water from the demand system. If your plumbing happens to be looped from fixture to fixture in a daisy chain fashion then all of your sinks will have faster hot water. By placing the system under the sink in a bathroom the shower and tub are also only seconds away from hot water once your demand system has finished its pumping cycle.
Hot water demand systems work fine with tankless water heaters as long as they have enough power to turn on the tankless hot water heater. Tankless heaters need a minimum hot water flow rate to turn on, typically ½ gallon to ¾ gallon per minute. Most recirculating pumps can’t produce a flow rate high enough to turn on tankless heaters.
Tankless water heaters require longer waiting times for hot water since they have to heat the water from scratch unlike storage water heaters. This makes demand systems even more important when you have a tankless water heater.
Solar water heaters work with hot water demand systems as well. Any kind of solar water heater will work with hot water demand pumps. If you are green enough to have a solar water heater on your home then you certainly should have a hot water demand system. In my opinion water savings is just as important as energy savings.
By reducing the amount of water you run down your drain you reduce the amount of sewage that must be processed and treated. That saves you more money and further reduces your carbon footprint.
If you have a septic system it reduces the load on your system saving you potential septic system problems.
This is an easy inexpensive home improvement project that saves you time, water, energy, and money and provides you with the convenience of fast hot water. Not many home improvement products can claim that.
Hot water demand systems for providing your home with instant hot water can be purchased online for less than 0, and some systems can be hooked up to your plumbing system with just supply hoses like the ones already on your fixtures. You don’t even have to turn off the water to your house.
A very easy and inexpensive home improvement project for the do it yourselfer and the novice alike. Possibly one of the best home improvements a homeowner can make.
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