Meme: Sad Pablo Escobar meme moping around

Caption: Me waiting for the hot water to reach the sink every morning

  • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    23 days ago

    That’s my kitchen sink. Takes forever to get hot water but the bathroom (Which is further from the tank) takes half the time.

    The joys of an old house.

    • Plibbert@lemmy.world
      5·
      23 days ago

      Same here but I’m in apartments that are less than 10 years old. So it’s not just old houses. Also poorly built apartments.

      • OpenStarsEnglish
        6·
        23 days ago

        It has to run out of all the water that was sitting still between the output hole and the input source where it’s heated. If your apartment has a central water tank, that has its advantages - e.g. a whole family inside your place could take successive showers without ever running out of hot water - but this is the primary disadvantage to that, the wait to go through that cold water, which gets worse the further/higher up you are away from it.

        Maybe try to find a way to not entirely waste it - like put some of that into a water kettle to be boiled for a hot drink? I enjoy such thoughts but do as you please ofc.

        I am no plumber, just thought this might be interesting to know:-). I am 10,001% certain that someone will correct me here if I have said anything inaccurate. 😂

        • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          You’re correct, but I just want to point out that it isn’t advisable to drink or cook with water that comes from your hot water tank. Hot water can (and usually will) corrode metal parts from your tank and plumbing and can be contaminated by all sorts of nasty stuff that won’t go away even if you boil the water first.

          https://www.denverwater.org/tap/psa-dont-drink-or-cook-with-hot-water-from-the-tap?size=n_21_n

          If you look it up on youtube, you can see for yourself the insane amount of crap that builds up inside a hot water tank over time. https://youtu.be/kAzKts6Wp1Q?si=UMPzHcIoSRdSgJ4g&t=88

          • OpenStarsEnglish
            2·
            22 days ago

            Oh wow, gross, but therefore thanks for sharing!:-)

            Man, even if you boil the water… that sounds no bueno… People act like humans live “better” lives than those from 100 years ago, as if well water wasn’t fresher and cleaner than what crap we get out of our tap. Tbf, vaccines exist now and that’s HUGE (well… for those that choose to take them), but in other ways we’ve gone backwards or at least sidewise rather than forward.

            • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              22 days ago

              To be fair a lot of wells didn’t/don’t have good water either but we were not very good at testing or noticing that kind of thing until people started dropping.

              • OpenStarsEnglish
                1·
                22 days ago

                It might be information overload but like… it seems hard to imagine people finding out that their wells were bad to drink from, and then simply deciding not to care. Though, that’s probably naive and it’s likely always been this way.

      • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        In my case it’s because the last several owners of this house were idiots that cheaped out on everything and thought they knew better than the professionals do… my plumbing is a wonderful variety of crap soldered to different crap that I think was partially salvaged from the Titanic or something.

        And since I’m renting, I have no ambition to rip anything out and fix it properly unless it breaks.