Something’s Chilling Your Flow…

So Trent wants to know, why does it always take his water so long to get warm, and if there's anything he can really do about it himself as a homeowner? The water coming into your home is even colder than it was before. It just takes longer for the water to heat up. The time it takes to travel to the fixture itself, that water is cooling down on its way. If your water lines are in the attic, even more so. Some ways to solve this issue is of course, insulating the copper piping and the walls in the attic. I guess anybody can really do that, right? Just go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get some Armaflex and start putting it on whatever exposed pipes you see. Any exposed piping you can see, insulate it. Why not? It's great for your plumbing system and it'll keep your water hotter longer. Like putting a recirculation pump on your water heater. Things like this will keep the water hotter longer. And we'll kind of solve that issue for Trent.