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A lot of people get hot under the collar about hot water, or better yet, really the lack of hot water
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How many times have you been in your house, get up in the morning, go to the shower or sink
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turn on the hot water, and it takes a while for it to get there. Not only do you waste a lot of hot water, but it can be kind of aggravating
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What if I told you that you can install a fantastic new pump on your hot water line down in your basement
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and you can have hot water anytime you want to. What's unique about this particular pump
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it's different from other recirculating pumps because it has a built-in timer
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These little blue cogs can be turned on and off in an entire 24-hour day
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and it tells the water heater or the pump when to send water up the line
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One of the things I like about this particular pump is that you can actually customize the timer to your schedule
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So if you know at a particular time each morning that you need hot water it give it to you Then it turns the pump off while you away at work When you come back in the evening and you need hot water once again for a shower to wash the dishes once again you told it when to start to come on just
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before you walk in the door. These recirculating pumps are actually cut in or spliced into the hot
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water line as it leaves the water heater. You're going to need a plumber or some plumbing
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experience to make sure you get this done right. Another major part of this entire pump system
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is this incredible bypass valve. The hot water actually comes up from the pump
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and enters into the valve here, and if you are actually using the hot water
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it will go out through this upper little pipe. But the pump is actually sending water through the valve
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out through this end, which goes back down into the cold water system of your house
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so that the hot water is waiting for you to use at the sink or the shower
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The next time you wake up late, you're going to wish you had one of these things installed on your hot water line
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I'm Tim Carter, Ask the Builder. If you want to discover more home improvement tips, go to askthebuilder.com
