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SAN ANSELMO — Host, Sarah Rutan: If you’re looking for ways to conserve water in your home, your first step should be installing a hot water recirculation pump. Today we’re in San Anselmo with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Cameron Mason of Mason Plumbing to learn why.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Cameron Mason: I remember as a kid going to take a morning shower, you would turn on the hot water and then you’d go take three minutes to go pick out your clothes, because the hot water wasn’t going to be there for a long time. That is not the case anymore. The engineers at Grundfos have come up with a pump that will get hot water to your furthest fixture, your kitchen, your shower, your sink, instantaneously.
So, all we need to do is take a pump like this, a little 12-horsepower, 115-volt recirc pump, pop this right on top of the hot water heater, put some manifolds at your furthest fixture in your kitchens or your bathrooms, set the timer or the aquastat, plug it in and you are good to go. And we’ll have instantaneous hot water to wherever you want, immediately. Saves 16,000 gallons a year for an estimated family of four. That is huge. That’s almost three-quarters of a swimming pool. So, in this time when water is so precious, a comfort pump system should be in every house.
Host, Sarah Rutan: To learn more from local, top rated companies, visit our Diamond Certified Expert Reports at experts.diamondcertified.org.