Water heater recirculating pump
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2022
- Adding a recirculating pump to your water heater can prevent wasted water! Imagine turning on the hot water, and getting almost instant access to hot water, rather than wasting all that water down the drain till it gets to your desired temperature.
Recirculating pumps have many benefits. This device can be programmed to operate as specific times of the day, as many times as you'd like. Recirculating pumps simply attach to your water heater through the hot supply line. From the furthest fixture in your home, the water is being constantly recirculated, keeping the temperature consistent.
If you'd like one of these in your home, we can supply and install for you! Or if you have any questions, please reach out to us!
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I would rather run a PEX dedicated return line to the water heater than have my cold water run hot initially. I'd like to see an installation using that method.
Understandable, but in Europe, water and electric are run inside brick walls. It’s not easily done. Additionally, certain water heater tanks may not have a return valve to hook this into. Too many dependencies.
I think it would be easier, assuming that this is a recurrent issue, to simply buy a cheap ass, smallish, tank water heater, and hook the hot water connection to it instead. Every day it would fill the tank with cold/warmish water, while it heats the hot pipes. Or, to the toilet (to be used in flushing).
Everything would be centered around in the same room. I’m sure that there are other ways to make smart use this left over water.
@@TechdoLiberal Same here in Mexico, most houses have their piping places inside the brick walls, it would need to be planned well beforehand to make the channels for the copper water pipes or PEX, though I would also add insulation around the hot pipes to reduce the heat-loss from the hot pipe system.
??? When your bypass cuts off and the pump is still on pumping, what happens? Pump is pumping but there is no where for the water to go.
Sooooo now i gotta wait for cold water……… gr8
Thank you
could I install a second bridge valve at the other extreme end of the house to obtain hot water faster there also?
i have a rinnai ru199 nat gas tankless. what recirc pump should i use?
Hi, I have Noritz that my contractor installed but does not have a return line or a recirculation future also would you know if the Navien NaviCirc Recirculation Valve will work without a pump ?
Great video, concisely describes how these units work. I have a standalone water tank that is heated by my oil, burning furnace, it’s set up as one of the zones. I have a cold water mixing valve, tank is at 140° and the valve is such a 120°. Would there be any issues connecting one of these pumps to my current system? And if it is OK with it go before or after the mixing valve?
Can I leave it on 24 hours?
I rented a house with such a system. It had no timer and no insulation on the copper pipes. The gas bills were high and the house 'ran hot' - with all that in wall hot water going around all the time!
Thats why many have timers, to prevent issues like this.
If the bridge valve pushing the cold water to the cold water pipe. Would that cold water pipe can excess large volume of cold water keep flowing to the pipe and it will have more pressure to damage the pipe or causing any leaking?
I can't understand that either.
Hello. Thank you for the video. For a water recirculation pump to be effective should you place a bypass at each of the fixtures that a person wants quick hot water present?
My understanding is that if you have a trunk line, where the hot water goes from the tank in a straight line with the various fixtures branching off, you only need a bypass at the last fixture. But if your hot water supplies branch off in different directions at the water heater, then you may need a bypass valve at each location
can you run a few of those bypass valves under multiple sinks?
Yes. I'm going to do that since there are different branches. Do you know if pump would burn out once valve shuts off the recirculation?
Glad i came across your video as i was just thinking about installing a hot water recirculating pump to have instant hot water in my master bath and to save on water because i have to wait literally 3-5 minutes for the hot water to travel from my water heater to my master bath which will easily save 25-35 gallons of water or much more considering i have 5 people living in the house with 3 full baths - But i am wondering how much my electric bill will go up by having the pump running from 6 am to 10 pm at night in order to enjoy the convenience of having instant hot water at all the faucets in the house. So the question is, how many watts does the pump use, and how long will the pump last if running 16 hours per day?
pumps are around 100 watts; that is not the worst part; the worst part is the fact the the pipe being hot all the time, it will waste a lot of energ yheating up the walls on the way; with the pipe set in concrete,my neighbor's gas bill doubled,he called back the plumber to eliminate it,water is plentiful and cheaper.
Run the pump off a smart plug. Don't run it 24/7
@@jimzimmerman5288 i've just learned about gravity operated recirculation system eliminating the pump all together.
@@jimzimmerman5288 I never thought of that. Wife and I travel for work , kids moved out, 3 to 5 minutes to get hot water to master bath sink so we get HW FOR SHOWER, MUCH WASTE OF WELL WATER. OBVIOUS NONSENSE TO USE TIMER TYPE timer type recirculating pump AND VALVE BUT PUT ONE ON A SMART SOCKET MIGHT WO4K. HOT WATER HEATER FUR5HIST AWAY FROM BATHROOMS AND KITCHEN SINK….
Where does the water go that runs through the bridge valve to the cold water side? I can't
understand that. No way can it cycle back into the tankless?
I’m not always home cause I travel is there one that I can use on demand…?
The tankless unit they show has that feature built-in. I did see another video for a guy with a water tank heater bypassed the timer and used a fairly simple temperature activated switch. I use a similar switch to make a proofing box for baking. I use a cooler, a heating mat meant for reptile, cages, and a switch that has a temperature sensor. On the timer, you set the temperature that activates the pump, and the temp it turns back off at. I believe the temperature switch I bought was about 25 bucks on Amazon. I don’t have that link handy but if I have time I’ll follow up and post it.
my house has two tanks connected in Parallel - where would i install this recirculation pump in this case?
And they use a little bit more gas to heat the water because as long as the lines are hot they are radiating heat to the environment.
So unless I misunderstood. With this you get hot water on both your hot and cold taps - correct?
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I see the other reply has been deleted. I'm wondering the exact same thing.
@@Phelper99 the thing is, the previous reply didn’t really address it directly. But the answer is yes, basically it cold water inside the heat pipe is pushed back into the storage tank through the cold water pipe.
Once the temperature reaches a certain threshold, the valve the connects the cold water to the warm water closes, and now it’s filled with hot water. But, the cold side now is full of “warm” water.
So if you need cole water you’ll have to dump that one instead.
@@TechdoLiberal yes but it is not a lot of warm water and not for very long plus most people would prefer that over the icy cold water during the winter
@@shiniquajones2812 it’s a matter of perspective only. Depending on where you live and the construction of your home, that may not be a problem at all.
SO YOU SAID YOU CAN LEAVE IT ON ALL THE TIME. AS YOU SAID. JUST PUT ONE IN. WOULD RATHER LEAVE IT ON ALL THE TIME. WHY IS THERE A TIMER.
It will save time not money plus you are introducing hot water into to cold system
I don't understand how you save money on the recirculating pump that pushes cold water from the hot water side back into the cold water side, the water meter is monitoring the water at the water meter, so the only benefit I see is getting hot water faster not cheaper
Hey Chuck! Without a recirc pump, many turn the water on to hot, letting it all go down the drain until it gets hot, wasted water. With a recirc pump, the water would be hot almost immediately.
The recirc is a closed system. It just pulls hot water from the hot tank and puts it back in the hot tank through the cold pipe inlet. No water is lost.
@@jamesbruce7595, I understand how you say no water lost, but you still pay for the no water loss, after it goes through the meter you can't reverse it, there for you pay for the extra water you just don't waste the water but you still pay for the extra water
@@ChampionPlumbing but you are still paying for the extra water, you just are not dumping it down the drain. putting it back into the cold water side don't get you a refund for the water you put back
@@chuckb2175 The recirc pump is installed at the water heater, and the water is circulated back to your water heater. It does not return before your water main causing it to calculate more usage.
Saves money? By running the water heater when noone is using it so that you can save a gallon of water waiting for it to get hot... yea waters cheaper than gas and electric. The wife can wait for the how water to get to the other side. She don't pay the bills.