All About Hot Water

Ok, this is my first official blog. I was hesitant to start a blog since I wasn't sure I could come up with something to blog about often enough to make it worthwhile, but I figured out what I could do if my brain was too slow.

Publish some of the more interesting emails we get from potential customers, and my response to them. We get all kinds of emails from people who don't understand one thing or another, and I have to assume a lot of them don't read either. If they did they would have found the information they were looking for right on the front page in many cases. LOL Go figure.

Hot water... the last frontier.

In a way hot water is like the final frontier. It seems like every other way to conserve energy and water has been covered many times over. Low flow everything from toilets to shower heads and high efficiencty appliances like dishwashers and washing machine are now common place.

Now maybe it's time to address the enourmous amount of wasted water and energy that could be saved from our hot water plumbing distribution systems. Todays large homes tend to have long and large diameter hot water piping which leads to a great deal of water being run down the drain, and heat energy slowly disspating from the pipes full of hot water sitting there cooling off.

Conservatively a demand hot water pump like the Chilipepper can save a typical family of four over 10,000 gallons of water per year. With over 50 million single family homes in the United States, if everyone had one of these systems we would save over 500,000,000,000 gallons of water per year. That doesn't count condos apartments and commercial uses if applicable.

It's very inexpensive and typically will pay for itself in a couple of years. In addition, the home owner gets his hot water faster which is always nice.

The demand pumps are easy to install and use very little electricity, usually less than $2.00 per year to operate. These systems even work with tankless water heaters, which is good since tankless water heaters take 10 to 20 seconds longer to get hot water to the fixture which means running more water down the drain.

Well, I think thats about it for my first blog post...

Bill the Hot Water Guy