hot water on Demand

[ITD]

Originally Posted by jeffk

If I were to put a recirculating system in, I would put it on an automatic timer so that it kicked on only when I expected to use it regularly, for example for a morning shower, time it to go on about 30 minutes before you normally get up and shut off an hour later. It wouldn't be perfect but if it met your need 80%+ of the time, that would be pretty good.

At worst you could run it during the day and off at night. Or off while you are at work as well. Keeping it running all the time could be expensive.

He talked of a recirc system with a button. You want hot water, you push the button for a few seconds, then open the spigot. I'm sure the circulator pushes the hot water through much quicker than it coming out of a 1.25 gpm faucet. It sounds like a great idea, especially for an instant heater where you don't want the thing firing until you want water.