We’ve all been there. You get up in the morning and you turn on the hot water tap in your bathroom as you stumble out to the kitchen to make coffee. You have to let that bathroom faucet run for a few minutes so the water will “warm up” enough for use. The unheated water, meanwhile, just drains away…
Let’s say the average 2,000 square foot house has about 125 feet of ¾-inch pipe, which holds about 3.14 gallons of water at any time. If your customer re-enacts the “let it run until it gets hot” scenario above 10 times a day, that means he or she may be wasting up to 31.4 gallons of water daily, nearly 12,000 gallons a year.