Melissa2007B
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A blower door test and subsequent air leak sealing may resolve a lot of your need for the humidifier altogether. It should also make the place more comfortable and save energy to both heat and cool. It will also likely help to cut down on dust infiltration.
We had an IR camera eval of the house, and they sealed it up fine, years ago.
For first use in the day, how long does it take to get hot water at the furthest point?
The water heater is on one end, and the house is 80 feet long and 30 wide, so it takes awhile. The water pressure is also diminished at the far end.
Consider that the water coming out of the WH you paid to heat, is just going down the drain, plus, it's being wasted. So, recirculating hot water would mean much less wasted water (that still costs money) along with energy to heat it.
Great point.
A showerhead's max flow is 2.5gpm. Say 2g of that is hot and it takes 90-seconds to get hot before you get in there. That's 3 g of hot you paid to heat that is not doing anything, means you've just added 3-gallons of cold to your WH, making it now hold less hot water, and thus shortening the time you'll have hot water. So, the energy to recirculate the water isn't a total loss, plus, you'll have the convenience of warm/hot water in seconds rather than minutes whenever you wish. It should also solve your water stacking issue as it will create some flow through the WH, and result in some mixing.
Good point, and thanks. And we could insulate the lines. Run an insulated HW line to the furthest HW outlet in the house, then run a line back, from the nearest. Insulating them all would help too, if we can find them, up under that plastic sheeting.