Browse Forums Eco Living 1 Oct 27, 2009 10:19 pm Has anybody seen these in action? http://www.winnswatersaver.com/index.html They seem like a brilliant idea - better than hot water recirculators, although a little trickier to install, I guess. Kylie Re: Winns Water Saver 2Oct 28, 2009 8:46 am I haven't had any experience with them but they look like a good idea. The otherwise wasted cold water from the hot water line would be diverted to your rain water tank (though they seem to have a special purpose tank - but if you have a rain water tank I would think you could directly divert the water there - especially if it is not a large amount of water). Sounds like you may need one per hot water tap (unless two HW taps are located close together). So it depends on the price whether it would be viable. Hopefully it would be cheaper than the electric pump driven recirculators. Re: Winns Water Saver 3Dec 02, 2009 9:43 pm HI There are several of these on the market at the moment. I personally think they are better systems out there. Unless you are reusing the cold water as hot water, and are using the cold water in the garden, you are not really saving any water at all. To reuse the cold water for feeding toilets is an expensive exercise as the feeder tank would require a pump to provide water to the toilet. Australian standards requires all fixtures to have a minimum 50KPA pressure, which you would not achieve with a tank in the ceiling relying on gravity feed. Other systems such as readyhot are better systems. Hope this makes sense. Re: Winns Water Saver 4Dec 03, 2009 8:44 am whats a device like the readyhot cost? and what other devices are around that do this job? I know Matt Walker has a device but $1,000 is just insane, if its going to cost that much, ill just wait. Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. 18 90473 From what I know about water tanks (I've been working with a client on them for a few years now) is this - The concrete can last a lifetime if they don't crack for some… 2 10629 4 10821 |