Hot Water Home Run, Return and Mixing
Here is an image of the proposed plumbing setup for the green show house in Brooklyn. Chester Birchwood from New York Solar Systems is installing it.
It has three interesting components. These apply to hot water only since we are really managing the amount of energy we added to the hot water. The cold water [...]
Hot water return – not worth the investment
Some people say a hot water return on the hot water lines of a house saves energy. A hot water return is where the hot water supply pipe (for example to the sink) actually loops back to the boiler so that hot water is constantly flowing in the pipe and ready to be used. This [...]