What is a Hot Water Recirculation Pump?

A hot water recirculating pump is installed on your water heater, returning unused hot water back to the water heater. It is designed to provide hot water on demand. While waiting a few minutes to get hot water is more of an inconvenience than anything else, it can also be quite wasteful.

Unless you collect that unused cold water in a bucket to reuse in your garden or elsewhere around your home, it all just goes straight down the drain. With a hot water recirculating pump, cold water sitting in your pipes will go back to the water heater, bringing new hot water to the faucet so that it is ready whenever you are.

To minimize water waste while waiting for hot water, you can have a recirculating pump installed on your water heater. Reduce annual waste of domestic water and reduce power consumption at the same time.

Pumps can be integrated as part of a new construction design or installed as a retrofit application. In the latter instance, the pump is spliced into the hot and cold water lines of the existing plumbing system.

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