No kidding? You've got COPPER pipes? I'm so jealous! I didn't think you could buy a house in the Villages without plastic plumbing. The first $500 I spent on our house was to replace all those 15-year-old plastic shutoff valves and hoses that were ready to pop at any moment. But there was nothing I could do about the plastic stub-outs from the wall, silently waiting their chance explode the minute someone crams too much stuff under the sink.
Anyway... here's my tip for slow hot water, at least for the shower. Open the sink faucets on hot while you're running the shower. It'll probably halve the time it takes to deliver the hot water, because they're probably all fed from one main 3/4" line. The individual branches to the sink and shower are only 1/2". So you need to run them all to get maximum flow from the tank.
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