Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
Everytime i turn on the hot water faucet in my powder room as opposed
to my bedroom bath faucet, it takes quite long before the water becomes warm, then hot. Why is this? I went to my water heater(in garage) and turned up the notch to make it hotter, but that doesn't seem to help. The same problem occurs in the kitchen faucet. Any ideas? Thanks. |
Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
wrote in message oups.com... Everytime i turn on the hot water faucet in my powder room as opposed to my bedroom bath faucet, it takes quite long before the water becomes warm, then hot. Why is this? I went to my water heater(in garage) and turned up the notch to make it hotter, but that doesn't seem to help. The same problem occurs in the kitchen faucet. Any ideas? Thanks. distance from the water heater. the further away it is, the longer it takes. |
Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
"Charles Spitzer" writes:
wrote in message oups.com... Everytime i turn on the hot water faucet in my powder room as opposed to my bedroom bath faucet, it takes quite long before the water becomes warm, then hot. Why is this? I went to my water heater(in garage) and turned up the notch to make it hotter, but that doesn't seem to help. The same problem occurs in the kitchen faucet. Any ideas? Thanks. distance from the water heater. the further away it is, the longer it takes. What he said. :-) The water sitting in the pipes decays to room temperature over time, so the latency from the tap opening to "hot" water hitting your hands is a simple function of water pressure, and how long that run from the water heater is. The temp of the water heater does not affect this latency directly. It only affects the starting temperature of the water that sits in your hot water pipes after you turn off the tap, before it starts its decay down to room temp. And with gas prices looking to surge this winter, the cost/benefit here doesn't look favorable. -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
wrote in message oups.com... Everytime i turn on the hot water faucet in my powder room as opposed to my bedroom bath faucet, it takes quite long before the water becomes warm, then hot. Why is this? I went to my water heater(in garage) and turned up the notch to make it hotter, but that doesn't seem to help. The same problem occurs in the kitchen faucet. Any ideas? Thanks. get some foam pipe insulation for the small pipes. |
Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:11:29 GMT, someone wrote:
get some foam pipe insulation for the small pipes. OK if they are accessible from the basement, but they may be inside walls or finished ceilings or slab as the case may be. (Next OP perhaps will be posting on how to tell???) Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file. |
Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... Everytime i turn on the hot water faucet in my powder room as opposed to my bedroom bath faucet, it takes quite long before the water becomes warm, then hot. Why is this? I went to my water heater(in garage) and turned up the notch to make it hotter, but that doesn't seem to help. The same problem occurs in the kitchen faucet. Any ideas? Thanks. get some foam pipe insulation for the small pipes. Insulation of hot water pipe will only help to prolong the water "cool down" time in the pipe. It will not affect the "warm up" time. All the cold water in the pipe will have to be discharged before water temperature can rise. FC |
Hot water takes a long time to flow from sink?
There are two available solutions to this problem. One is a pump that
continuosly monitors the temp at the far end and recirculates hot water so that it will be at temp when needed. The obvious disadvantage is that now you have a length of pipe that will constantly radiate heat and waste energy. The pipe will need to be insulated to minimize this. The other is similar, but is a pump that pumps water from the hot line into the cold line near the far end when you press a button located at the sink. It's faster than letting it run, but not instant, and doesn't waste water, if that's a concern. |
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