Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter

Fermion@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  hot water circulation systems should be more common

  That just sounds like a waste of energy. Why not have the water heater right next to your shower, so that there’s no wait? It’s how it was set up in my parents home. Really enjoyed that setup, never had to wait for hot water.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because the kitchen isn’t always wall to wall with the bathroom?

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    • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s still confusing to me. My parents had the water heater tank in the bathroom, between the shower/bath and the sink. The kitchen sink had a separate small water heater.

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      • pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Most houses in the US have a single water heater, usually in the basement or utility room, with pipes running all through the house.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On demand recirculating works reasonably well but only for people who tolerate it. Push button, wait 3 min, water hot. It works for me but I know it’s way too much trouble for other people. It saves water and energy.

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    • pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you have a consistent schedule, you can also use timers for those so you don’t always need to remember to run it.

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    • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, yeah, that makes much more sense actually. Now I kinda want that setup, but I bet it’s expensive.

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  • brap@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I assume electric showers are pretty rare over there? We’d have like a 16mm2 cable ran to the bathroom for a 10.5kW shower. And with one of those it’s practically instant heat, and enough to heat high flow.

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    • Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen one. We’ve got on-demand water heaters that feed entire homes, but the electric versions are notorious for breaking a lot. The trend is toward heat pump hot water storage tanks that cool the air around them and put that heat into the water tank.

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      • brap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks for info, good to learn.

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• pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought a hot water circulator would be great, and it kind of is, but it comes with a drawback that I hadn’t considered. If you want cold water from the tap, to fill a glass of water at night for example, you have to wait for that just as long as you would have had to for the hot water before!

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  • Fermion@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The solution to that is for a third return line to be run during a new build or remodel, but that’s definitely not a weekend project for most homes.

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