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Originally Posted by Sven7
finally found the point that I can take a shower without turning the cold water on to balance out the water temperature.
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I was wondering if that was the most efficient point? In my house we mix some cold but empty our hot water heater frequently. I wonder if there is a point where you are better off with hotter water mixed with cold and not emptying the (in my case) 50 gallon vessel? Run all that water out and you end up with 50 gallons of water with a starting temperature of say 50 degrees being heated up to your shower temp.
As with most things I imagine you can go wrong in either direction...I just wonder where that middle ground lies.
One thing I have done is turned off hot water to my bathroom sink. I used to turn it on out of habit but would be finished washing before the hot water got to me. I was basically putting hot water into the pipes and putting cold water in the water heater for no reason.