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If you check the manual you might find that you can hook the single inlet pipe up to the hot water tap.
by Titan2189 11mo ago
If you check the manual you might find that you can hook the single inlet pipe up to the hot water tap.
- SchemaLoad 11mo agoI feel like it's probably pointless. The dishwasher will be full of water before the hot water starts coming out the pipe. Depending on how far the dishwasher is from the water heater I guess.
- tguvot 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator_pump#Use_with_domestic_hot_water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulator_pump#Use_with_domes...
- Gigachad 11mo agoThis seems like something that only makes sense when water is scarce but electricity is cheap. You’d be constantly losing heat to the poorly insulated pipes.
- tguvot 11mo agoI have all hot water pipes insulated in my house
- maxerickson 11mo agoPeople who do it more or less don't care about the price of energy (except maybe in the abstract). It's for comfort and convenience.
- Scoundreller 11mo agoAnd you're fully losing heat if you dump lukewarm water down the drain (instead of cycling it back to the heater) to eventually get hot water.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoIn most kitchens I've seen, the dishwasher is pretty close to the sink. In fact the sink and the dishwasher often share a shut-off valve. So if you run the water at the sink until it's hot, then start the dishwasher, it will get hot water. Problem is, that most dishwashers have a prewash and a main wash. By the time the prewash is finished and the main wash starts, the water in the supply line will have cooled off quite a bit.
- doubled112 11mo agoNot just the shut off. My dishwasher's drain hose goes up into the sink's drain plumbing much higher than I would have thought. This almost made a mess when the sink was clogged and the dishwasher tried to pump the water out but had nowhere to go.
- tguvot 11mo agoYou can install airgap for this. In usa building code mandates it on multiple states
- olyjohn 11mo agoIs that the point of the air gap? I can't even get a straight answer from plumbers on what it's for. I don't see how that could possibly help with a clogged drain, just seems like a secondary point for the drain water to come out.
- SchemaLoad 11mo agoI'm fairly sure the point of air gaps on drainage is to prevent sewerage water from backing up in to appliances if the sewerage line is blocked. It will instead spill on the floor where it will be more easily noticed and cleaned.
- throwaway173738 11mo agoThat’s exactly what it’s for. If you block the sink drain and fill it with water, you can have water flow down the dishwasher drain hose and into the sump in the dishwasher. If that happens during the rinse cycle you’re rinsing with grey water.
- db48x 11mo agoYou should actually watch the video so that you can see the graphs; it’s not pointless.
- Freedom2 11mo agoI don't think the dishwasher will be "full of water" as it doesn't actually fill up - rather, it only uses 2 gallons maximum per cycle, about the amount that would be the bottom of basin of the washer.
- SchemaLoad 11mo agoThat's what I meant. The water drawn from the dishwasher is small enough to not even purge the cold water from the line in many houses. So you would just be wasting heat by filling the pipe with hot water while only taking the cold water from it.
- pastor_williams 11mo agoWhen I do the dishes I hand wash those that can't be put in the dishwasher before I start the dishwasher. This ensures that the water that goes into the dishwasher is already hot.
- cwillu 11mo ago“16:12 The importance of purging cold water from the line”
- SAI_Peregrinus 11mo agoThus the video's advice (also in my dishwasher's manual) is to run the water from a nearby sink until it's hot before starting the dishwasher. Because it helps significantly to get hot water at the input when US dishwashers are limited to 1200W of heating.