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Old 05-01-2023, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by eeroger View Post
Put in a recirculating pump on your hot water heater (not sure if this works on thankless heater). We have a 3k sq ft house and now get hot water in 4 sec at kitchen sink, 10 sec at master shower, and 30 sec at farthest guest bathroom. We used to tell guests to turn on the hot water & then come and get coffee before the water would get hot.
You can put a recirculating pump on you tank and or tankless hot water system. These recirculating pumps come with a timer that you can adjust to anticipate when you use hot water. But the best way to implement this pump is to set it to On all the time and get a wifi power switch to turn the pump on or off using Google or Alexa. The pump simply plugs into the wifi power switch which turns the power On and Off as you need hot water. No schedules and no waste of electricity recirculating hot water when it's not being used. This way when you need water you say "Hey Google turn on the water heater pump for 5 minutes" and by the time you get into the shower the water will be hot in about a minuteor less.