Comment Re: Grundfos? (Score 1) 55
What is "very large"? How far is the faucet from the water heater? Couple hundred feet? I've never seen anything take *minutes* to get hot water out. Hell, I can turn my boiler on and heat the whole tank from cold faster than that.
My house is a relatively normal size (1800 square feet), and it still takes more than three full minutes for water in my shower to reach full temperature when I run it straight hot. If I also turn on both faucets in my bathroom, I can get that down to about twenty or thirty seconds, which is barely tolerable.
At my mom's house in Tennessee, the distance the water has to travel is comparable, but it takes only ten seconds or so.
It's a huge downside to all the water-saving showerheads and faucets that were forced upon us here in California decades ago. We waste a lot of time and energy to make up for a water shortage that exists only because of decades of politicians being short-sighted and kicking the desalination can down the road over and over so that the money doesn't get spent on their watch.