Do Your Part, How to Be and Live Green in Charlotte, NC

We all do it!  We wait and wait and wait for hot water to get to our faucets.  But did you know there's one simple thing that will bring you instant hot water and save you a whole lot of money?

It's called a hot water recirculator and can be installed in your home in under two hours.

 

Mark Romano of Eco-Flow tells us: "The benefit to the environment is that you're going to save between 16 and 18 thousand gallons of water a year per household.  The benefit to the homeowner is that they're going to save between 150-225 dollars a year in water costs."

 

Mark Romano started ECO-FLOW back in 2007.  The company specializes in attaching recirculating pumps onto your hot water heater.  These pumps continuously keep hot water flowing in your pipes instead of letting the water to sit in the pipe and cool.  So, even if you turn water on in a bathroom that's far away from the water heater, you'll still get hot water almost instantaneously.

 

That's incredible considering that without a recirculator, the wait time can be up to four minutes!

 

With a hot water recirculator Romano tells us "You're virtually getting it to where each fixture is under 10 seconds."

 

It'll cost about $650 to get one installed but you will make that money back.  Average amount of time is around three year.

So do your part and install a hot water recirculator in your home.  You'll have the convenience factor of instant hot water, you'll save thousands of gallons of water each year and you'll be saving money too.