Saving time, energy and blood pressure
We’ve all turned on the hot faucet, placed a hand in the stream of still cold water — and waited … and … waited.
The water grows from cold to tepid to lukewarm while you go from perturbed to absolutely irked. Eventually, the hot water actually becomes hot.
Here’s what caused that problem. (If you already know what caused it, you can skip ahead to the solution.) When you run hot water, that hot water goes from your water heater through pipes throughout your house and, finally, through the faucet you turned on. When you turn off that hot water, there is still water in those pipes between the water heater and the faucet you just used. That water gets lukewarm, then tepid and finally cold. Later on, when you turn on that faucet again, all that cold water in the pipes has to go somewhere before all the hot water you are waiting for reaches you. It goes out of the faucet and down the drain. Meanwhile, you keep waiting for hot water, again.
Conserving Energy,
Preserving Comfort
A hot water recirculation pump avoids wasting time, energy or comfort. Instead of letting your formerly hot water grow chilly in a lengthy network of pipes, hot water recirculation pumps draw that water back, out of the pipes and into your water heater’s tank where it stays hot until you want more hot water again.
This simple act of putting hot water back where it belongs serves you well in three ways:
You only pay to heat the hot water you use.
You save time by not standing there at that faucet waiting for all that cold water to get out of the way before, finally, the hot water comes through.
You preserve, even increase, your comfort when you know that the first drop of water, especially from the shower head in the morning, is going to be the temperature you want.
Naturally, the greatest benefits of a hot water recirculation pump go to those with tank-type water heaters. The reason for that is pretty simple. A tankless water heater, although efficient in its own right, doesn’t have a tank to recirculate that hot water back into. A tank-style water heater does. Simply, there is a hot place for the hot water to go back to and stay hot while it is there. That said, a few higher-end tankless models also come with built-in recirculation pumps. If you are retrofitting and interested in avoiding the wait for hot water when you turn on your faucet, the tank water heater you already have will serve you best.
If you are tired of waiting (and … waiting) for hot water, calling us at (352) 753-6053 to ask about faster hot water and the Watts® recirculation pump will shorten that wait measurably.