Posted: 1/29/2010 3:33:36 AM EDT
| Since we moved into our house the upstairs shower and sink are never really hot enough during the winter months. There is plenty of pressure but the only way to get the shower good and hot is to turn the sink cold water on. Everything on the first floor is fine temp wise. Im wondering if im losing to much heat because of a long hot water line. This is the only thing i can think of. Whats everyone else's thoughts. |
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You ca install a circulation pump under the sink in the upstairs bath room, that is operated by a timer.
it will draw the hot water up from the heater and force it down the cold line when its operating. This will provide hot water in a shorter time period when you would usually be using it. They run about $300.00 or so for the kit and connect to your existing faucet supplies, one company that makes them is Laing. http://www.houseneeds.com/shop/laing/laingautoact303btwrecircmain.asp HTH |
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Not knowing how your plumbing is layed out, it probably could be run more efficiently, but that would be a more difficult job than simply putting a recirculation pump under the sink.
If you have good plumbing skills, a re pipe job with insulated piping on the hot side and maybe a recirculation line back to the water heater certainly will work. |
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What kind of shower faucet do you have? 1 or 2 handle? pic maybe?
When you say that by turning on the cold water on the sink in that bathroom ,that makes the water hotter, it leads me to believe you have a single handle faucet, that has an adjustment that stops the handle from turning the mixing valve to allow only hot water. I doubt your losing the heat, its just that the cold water that's mixing with it is colder, and dropping the temp too much. If the hot water is hotter coming out of the lav faucet, than the shower, then it is a most likely in the shower faucet. |
