The Log Home Industry Expert

There are numerous benefits to fast hot water such as saving water, saving time, saving money and being more environmentally friendly. It could even mean cleaner dishes from your dishwasher.

If you live in a small apartment, then fast hot water probably isn’t much of a concern for you. You probably get your hot water fast since you either have a short distance from the water heater to the fixture, or your apartment has a hot water circulating system. But if you live in a rambling ranch home with the water heater on one end of the house, and the master bath on the other end, then you know you waste a whole lot of water waiting for the hot water to reach you.

You can get faster hot water and get it without running any water down the drain with a Chilipepper hot water demand system. The Chilipepper hot water demand system is an inexpensive easy-to-install pump that mounts under your sink, and delivers your hot water to you fast, without running any water down the drain. Studies have indicated that a typical family of four can save up to 15,000 gallons of water per year with a demand type hot water system like the Chilipepper.

When you want hot water, you press a button and the Chilipepper pumps the hot water from your water heater to your fixture at high speed. When hot water reaches the fixture, the pump shuts off. When the pump shuts off you turn on the tap and you have instant hot water. The cooled off hot water in the hot water piping gets pumped through the cold water line back to the water heater inlet. No hot water ends up in the cold water line.

You get your hot water faster, and you don’t run any water down the drain. If you are one of those people who turn on the hot water, and then do something else while you wait for the hot water, and you come back to find that there is hot water running down the drain, then you can save a ton of energy too.

According to dishwasher manufacturers, the number one reason for dishwashers to not get dishes clean is that the water isn’t hot enough to dissolve the soap completely. Run the Chilipepper when you start the dishwasher and make sure the dishwasher gets hot water for really clean dishes.

If you have a tankless water heater you are saving energy, but wasting water. Tankless water heaters take longer to get you hot water since they have to heat it as well as just send it like a tank type water heater. So it takes longer, and you run more water down the drain waiting. But don’t worry, the Chilipepper works with any tankless water heater, in fact, it works with any kind of water heater including solar.

The Chilipepper is a green product, as it saves a lot of water and in many cases energy too. The pump typically costs less than $2.00 per year in electricity to operate. Saving water reduces the amount of energy needed to pump and treat it. This reduces the amount of greenhouse gas and other pollutants being released into the atmosphere. Check with your local water company, as some water companies are offering rebates of up to $200.00 on demand type hot water pumps like the Chilipepper. The Chilipepper sells for about $180.00 on the Chilipepper web site.