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Cheap Way to Put Less Strain on Your Water Heater

  
  
  

shower head saves waterWith the holiday season comes water heater stress. You get guests in your house and when everyone wants to shower, the water heater works overtime.

Sure, you could stagger showers with enough time in between for the water heater to catch up and reheat enough water for the next person. Here is a stupid, simple idea that works: use less hot water. Now, I’m not demanding short submariner type showers (although that would work). Nor am I saying you should turn the water off as you are soaping up (yes that would place less stress on your water heater too). I’m suggesting you replace your showerheads.

If you have 2.5 gallon per minute showerheads now, and you replace them with 1.6 gallon heads, you will save nearly 1 gallon of water for every minute you shower. So if you have guests staying at your house you can rack up the savings, and let the water heater breathe a little easier. Let’s assume you have 4 people at the house and each takes a 10 minute shower (probably a conservative estimate). Do the math: 4 people x 10 minutes = 40 minutes of total shower time.  Take 40 minutes x .9 gallons (2.5 gallons minus 1.6 gallons) of water savings per minute =36 gallons of water per day that they stay over. Best of all, it will only take you 5 minutes to replace a shower head.

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