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Originally Posted by villagetinker
There have been a few threads on this topic, along with a reference to a detailed article on total cost. I am not going to comment, just suggesting that you do some research before installing the recirculating system. Our shower takes exactly 30 seconds to get hot water, and about 2 gallons of water.
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Before I added our pump it was about 40 seconds for the water to get WARM and another few to get HOT in our shower. With the recirc pump it's 10-15 seconds until full HOT in same shower. Kitchen is just about instant now but was close to 30 sec before for HOT. Other problem was washer, when set to hot using the "hi efficiency" (minimal water) mode it never got hot since so little water was used. We would have to remember to run water FIRST in a nearby sink which was A PITA. Besides saving a little water it was just so annoying having to always wait for hot water. Never was used to that because we had tankless HWH up north (gas) and HW was virtually instant anywhere.