Recirc pumps saves water but are an energy waste if run continuously.  Ours has a button that you press manually 30 seconds or so before you use your faucet, and goes off when the hot water reaches the faucet.  Still I doubt the energy savings will offset the installation cost in any realistic amount of time.<div>
<br clear="all">---- Steve (KZ6LSD)<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Stephen Collette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen@yourhealthyhouse.ca">stephen@yourhealthyhouse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">Here is a link (hopefully it's not scrubbed) on hot water recirculating pumps. Seems according to Pablo, they do not add up. I have one and unplugged mine as I thought (not verified, but eyeballing my electricity bill and guesstimating) that it was costing too much to run. I would be curious about thoughts on this idea from others, as I know we have had discussions in the past on these units.</div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left"><br></div><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/ask-pablo-hot-water-recirculation-pump.php" target="_blank">http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/ask-pablo-hot-water-recirculation-pump.php</a><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;color:black;text-align:left">
<br></div>If the link is scrubbed, please go to treehugger . com and search ask pablo - hot water recirculating pumps, and you should find it hopefully. or drop this on the end of it. /<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/ask-pablo-hot-water-recirculation-pump.php" target="_blank">files/2011/05/ask-pablo-hot-water-recirculation-pump.php</a><div>
<br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen<br><font color="#888888"><br><div>
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