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On 15 May 2010 18:10:49 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:


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Over here, dishwashers are usually cold fill.


That's dumb.


Over here dishwashers only use a few litre of hot water.
Its cheaper to heat it in the machine than to use hot fill.


They use very little water,
so often they would fill mostly cold anyway, from water lying in
the pipe.


So you waste the water in the pipes either way. If you're washing
by hand (with hot water) you're wasting all the hot water needed to
get the tap up to
temperature, plus the water needed to do the dishes. Seems like an
even stronger argument for a hot-water plumed dishwasher.


How can that be true, no hot water is wasted in a cold fill
dishwasher.


But heating it may cost more, if the water heater is gas, for instance.