On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:46:45 -0500, "Solar Flare"
wrote:

"daestrom" wrote in message
...
Considering 50' of 1/2" nominal piping contains less than a gallon
of water,
and US machines use many gallons, the cold, stagnant water has
little
overall affect on the filled temperature.

daestrom

You would have to live in a 500 sq ft house to have less than 50' of
copper plumbing.

And yet my home is 2000 sq.ft., and there's about 15' of pipe between
the washer and the water heater. You must have been thinking of 500
sq.ft. homes in your own neighborhood, eg 10 X 50', with the washer
near the rear bumper and the hot water tank near the hitch.

Wayne