Domestic hot water - Articles - Page 2

The Glitch & The Fix: Intentions versus results

September 27, 2021

An installer is asked to provide a system that supplies two zones of fin-tube baseboard and two zones of floor heating.

Feature-packed digital mixing valves

Raising the bar for safer domestic hot water systems design and distribution

Rick Cota

September 21, 2021

There is a revolution happening in today’s plumbing marketplace, specifically when it involves domestic hot water system designs.

Lync hot water wellness solution

September 16, 2021

Lync, a Watts brand, introduces Element, the world’s first hot water wellness solution. Element brings the functionality of a full domestic hot water system in addition to multi-barrier pathogen protection and remote monitoring into one compact appliance, Lync points out.

Digital Mixing: The solution for safe, consistent domestic water systems

Digital mixing supports consistent delivery of hot water on-demand wherever and whenever needed.

Kolyn Marshall

May 12, 2021

Many older commercial facilities today, especially larger, multi-story facilities with plumbing and mechanical systems that may date back 10 or 20 years, have domestic water systems with a consistency problem.

The Glitch and Fix: Duped by a loop

April 27, 2020

An installer pipes up the system shown in Figure 1. Its purpose is to provide two zones of space heating.

John Siegenthaler: Three inputs, one output

Multiple strategies for heating domestic water.

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

March 5, 2020

I recently designed a system for my daughter’s new home with a water-to-water geothermal heat pump as its main heat source.

An investment for home owners and businesses

Hot-water recirculation systems.

Hans Kuster

June 19, 2019

For a $200 to $400 investment, a home owner or business owner can save $844 to $1,344 in 10 years in water savings alone. Energy and utility savings are additional and larger. At the same time, users can enjoy hot-water comfort at every faucet without the wait.