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- From: chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski)
- Subject: Re: Hot water too hot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.233128.26153@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- References: <LOWRY.93Jan21110918@rotor.watson.ibm.com> <74269@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:31:28 GMT
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- In article <74269@cup.portal.com>, Renee@cup.portal.com (Renee Linda Roberts) writes:
- > Tell the landlord (or property cooperative leaders) to turn it down! It
- > wastes energy, especially if it is over 140 degrees. Turning it down to
- > 120 will make it so it will take more than 5 minutes to sustain a burn,
- > thereby also saving them from potential liability claims (If the energy
- > idea doesn't work, the legal usually does).
-
- I agree with this.
-
- The original objection was that dishwashers don't work properly unless the
- water is at least 140F. That's true, but it's also true that most modern
- dishwashers have pre-heat capability: if the incoming water is not hot
- enough, they'll heat it until it is.
-
- The most common *real* reason I've seen for landlords heating the water
- to scalding temperature is a too-small hot water tank. They don't
- want to replace it, and figure you'll use less if you have to mix
- it with cold.
-
- Now for REALLY hot water, I can still remember the dishwasher job I
- had when in college. New York State said that water had to be 180F!
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