LUXURY IN BATHROOMS

Creating a Luxury Bathroom Experience Starts with Hot Water

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It is an American trend to transform bathrooms into lavish home spas. Multiple shower heads, steam showers and garden tubs are helping homeowners across the country create the ultimate luxury experience. The key to achieving a spa-like atmosphere is hot water, and lots of it. Did you know that a single 10-minute shower with a standard shower head uses 25 gallons of water at about 105 degrees? 

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Here are some tips to consider when designing your home spa:

• Get the Hot Water You Need - Many people don’t realize that a garden tub can empty a 40-gallon water heater. Choosing the right water heater, whether tank, tankless or solar, is at the heart of every luxury bathroom decision.  By working with a designer, qualified plumber, or bath showroom consultant, you can review the water heating options available to you and determine the appropriate type and size of water heater for your home.
• Audit Your Usage - The key to getting the right amount of hot water is to do a simple audit of your household’s peak hot water demand.  You need to identify the day of the week, and the time of day, when you need the most hot water in the shortest period of time. 
• Go Green - Homeowners can save energy by using tankless water heaters, solar water heaters or super-insulated tank water heaters. 
• Go With the Flow - Even though your home spa may have the potential to be a heavy user of hot water, you can save energy and conserve water with a tankless or solar water heater.  You can also compensate by installing high performance, low flow shower heads for the second and third bathrooms in the home.  The best of these shower heads will give you a great shower experience using 1/3 less hot water per minute – 1.85 gallons per minute, instead of 2.5.
• Think Tankless - No matter how many body sprays and showerheads, or how large the tub, you will not run out of hot water with the right tankless water heating system.  And with a tankless water heater, your energy use is just as smart as your hot water use . . . because a tankless water heater matches your use of energy to your use of hot water.

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