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Review of the Waste Water Heat Recovery System
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Review of the Waste Water Heat Recovery System
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" All right well down in the basement we want to check in with John was shallow arc plumbing contractor. And John let me interrupt you. Or morning good morning this is something I wanted to look at closely is this is a pretty unusual feature that we're putting in the house. And it's it's simple but it is new technology and when he caught. It's waste water heat recovery unit. It's OK I utilized the waste water from say the showers and the kitchen sink and dishwasher. All the water that's in going down the drain. He claims sort of wall all of these. The drain pipe with transferring the wasted heat and actually obviously story. It's so simple it's hard that it to found themselves outlet. Every time we take a shower you're doing all that nice hot water of course it's all going down the drain is still hot exactly it's now waste water and where we're trying to recover some. Exactly so instead of letting it go directly into the sewer. You've got. Well behind disclose its copper pipe -- yes that is the interior of this movie theater -- convert them. Why didn't extending throughout the whole boil down. The exteriors the water supply and piping it would be coming consider residences all of the exile of the waste water from the whole house is coming out through here yesterday and then under the slab going into the to the -- out into the street yes. You should recover I would say it's. He's from ten to fifteen degrees and it didn't sit on that out. And taken back so that instead of beating the water heater which is right down here behind you. That cold water that comes in from the street. It comes in about forty degrees. It should bring it up so I would say 5055. Degrees yeah that's instead -- and using an extra energy to heat that we'll be using a waste water to -- Right I hear that technology was actually it's being here author. It was invented by. I gentleman who's a scientist but his wife runs beauty parlor and Long Island off his horse that you a lot shampoo and stuff so there wasting a lot of hot water in this one way -- And figured out how to recover some of that heat. Exactly any idea about the costs down and and course about a 175 dollars down. And the efficiency they -- it recovers from -- waste water should pay for itself an all time right. And then of course what we're doing is adding that -- agrees to the water and feeding it into our horizontal water heater from -- but there's write nice that's okay."
