"micky" wrote in message
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 19:47:37 -0700, "Julie Bove"
wrote:



10 minutes is enough to heat the water more than 105? Maybe if the
water that comes out is right where the heat is applied, but even then,
does't water convection mix the just heated water with cold water?

I don't know. Something didn't sound right to me. Water went to cold,
then
it was only on for 10 minutes and 15 hours later it was still hot?

Well, I live alone, and I've gone two days with hot water after turning
off the wh. Just me, no laundry or dishwasher. Maybe I was going out
of town so I turned it off early. Or maybe there was a power outage.

I have an electric wh. They may have better insulation than gas do,
although I think it was just an inch and a half of the pink fiberglass.
Is that a lot? . How much less could gas have?

(They talk about a glass tank and I was worried bringing it home and
down to the basement that I'd break the glass. It's not glass. It's
bendable "plastic:, somewhere between milky white and clear, with maybe
glass in it for all I know There is no way it could break. Are
others any different?)

I personally don't use a lot of hot water. I take quick showers, rarely use
the dishwasher and almost always wash clothing in cold. But... Both
daughter and husband take super long showers and she is guilty of letting
the shower run for 10-20 minutes or longer before getting in it. Twice she
has fallen asleep with the shower running. I don't even notice until I
realize that it is very quiet and then I can feel the steam wafting out
here. By then the entire room is dripping wet. Neither she nor husband
will use the vent fan! Oh and body take super hot showers. I can not bear
to get in the water at the temperature they do.