Yes, you can upgrade your bathroom adding convenience and conserving significant amounts of water with no effort on the part of the user. It’s a home improvement project that will save you substantial amounts of water providing you with a greener lifestyle.
There are a lot of upgrades you can do to your bathroom these days that will result in an increased usage of water… walk in tubs, Jacuzzi tubs, multiple shower head showers etc. On the other hand things you do to save water are generally an inconvenience, like having to flush the toilet multiple times for it to work, having to wait for long periods to get hot water due to low flow fixtures, and showerheads that barely get you damp.
If you are planning a home improvement project or upgrade to your bathroom, there is a green plumbing product that will give you a greener lifestyle, something that will conserve water, save you time and money, and it will work great with all or any of your new bathroom equipment and fixtures.
It’s a hot water demand system. A small pump mounts under your sink. When you want hot water you press the start button and the pump speeds the hot water from your heater to your fixtures and doesn’t run any water down the drain in the process. You get hot water faster than normal and save a ton of water.
Hot water demand systems work with any kind of water heater including tankless water heaters, solar water heaters, gas water heaters, electric water heaters and heat pump water heaters. Any kind of fuel, propane, natural gas, electricity, fuel oil, or whatever is fine. The fuel type does not make any difference.
Note that this is a “demand” system that requires you push a button to get the pump going. Demand systems are green because they only run when you want hot water, not all the time. The resulting energy use is trivial coming in at around $1 - $2 per year to operate.
Since hot water isn’t circulated in the pipes you don’t use any more heating energy for the hot water than if you did not have the pump. It’s a win win, for both you and the environment.
The demand system is designed to get the hot water to the bathroom quickly without running water down the drain, but once it arrives at the bathroom the hard part is over and hot water is nearly instant at any of the bathroom fixtures. Once the hot water arrives and the pump has shut off, it is no longer in the flow path of the hot water. It will not affect your plumbing system when it isn’t running.
With the proper plumbing layout a hot water system can serve any number of fixtures by simply providing remote locations with a remote control start button. If your piping system loops from fixture to fixture then by putting the pump at the furthest fixture from the water heater it will provide fast hot water to all your fixtures with just the one pump.
Any bathroom would benefit from a hot water demand system as long as the water heater isn’t very close to the fixture. Point of use water heaters don’t really have a distribution system and with such minimal piping there isn’t really an advantage to having a hot water demand system, but everyone else needs one.
Help keep our planet green when doing a home improvement project or a bathroom upgrade, and by installing a hot water demand system. Imagine not having to stand in the bathroom in front of the bathroom shower with your hand in the stream waiting for the hot water to arrive on those chilly winter mornings.
The Chilipepper hot water demand pump is less than $200.00 and is easy to install. You don’t even need to shut off the water supply to the house, just the supply valves under the fixture where you wish to install the Chilipepper. You do however need an electrical outlet nearby to plug it into.
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