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Article: Hot water--how fast? A few options to getting instant--or near instant--hot water.(Plumbing PRIMER)
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- Plumbing & Mechanical
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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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?
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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, ...