Re: [GBlist] recirculators

[Ron Byrd <byrdelc@directcon.net>]

This reminds me of a friend I have. He had just built a new house, it is
very nice about 2000 square feet him and his wife live in it with their
son and daughter. He was very proud of his recalculating system the plumber
installed for him. Two 40 gallon propane water heaters and a continuous
loop of un insulated hot water piping. He said the plumber told him it
was not necessary to insulate the lines because it was installed in an
insulated crawl space under the house.

As I was standing there trying to convince him that this would be a tremendous was of energy, wouldn't you know it the propane truck rolled in for the second time that month.
Come to find out his wife had been spending $250 or more on propane every two weeks since they moved into the house.

Now that is a tremendous and unnecessary was of energy. He has since corrected the problem. We see a lot of people that have similar problems. They are just wasting too much energy. Its not going to last forever. We should all take sometime to evaluate or needs. Is it necessary to use so much energy?

And if you live in El Dorado Hills, CA you may want to consider how you can use less water too!  

David Porter wrote:

> I had a recirculator pump installed and an insulated
> copper pipe run through
> the attic from the tank to the master bath lav.  That created
> a loop for the
> house.  For the first couple of months, the recirculator ran 24
> hours per
> day; until I got the electric bill.  I was paying $40 per month
> extra, it
> seemed, for the cost of the recirculator pump and the constant reheating
> of
> the water coming back into the tank.  Knowing that the recirculator
> pump
> used about as much as a 60W light bulb, I then attributed most of the
> extra
> electrical cost to the fact that the water tank was constantly receiving
> back into it, 90 degree water. --
Ron Byrd
Vice President
Sunstar Precision Energy Corporation
http://www.specbyrd.com
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