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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ktm450" data-source="post: 383960" data-attributes="member: 5891">Just found this thread and thought i would share my data for those that have a hot water recirc and the cost with it.   I dont know what it would be like if i didnt have the recirc and just ran water for 5 min to get hot water. i do know rural water is expensive. lol specs-  house is 1836 sq ft up and 1872 sq ft down with unfinished basement.A little back story to how this came around to this.  I had my propane tanks (2 -1000 gal) filled back in july and just so happen to take a look at the level here a few weeks ago.  i was shocked with how fast the level was dropping and immediately thought i had possibly a leak (had the tanks repositioned this summer).  Trying to figure out where it was all going ( could only be the hotwater heater at this present time).  I decided to put a wifi smart plug on the power vent blower and see how much the hot water heater was running. Now i knew it ran more then the the household that doesnt have the recirc but to my surprise it was way more then I thought. I have a power vented 75,000btu propane hot water heater with the hot water recirc pump.  After the first 4 days on the plug my hot water heater ran for 17 hours total and i knew i needed to do something different as it costed me  aprox. $18.39 in propane and $1.98 in electricity for the power vent and recirc pump in those 4 days.The next 4 days I put the hot water recirc pump on another wifi smart plug with a schedule and kept the power vent with power all the time to see how much it would run. (only having power to the recirc pump when we were home and would need hot water instantly ( 8 hours a total run time during the week and 16 hours on weekend).  To my surprise the hot water heater in the next 4 days only ran a total of 7 hours costing me $7.57 in propane and $0.54 for electricity to the power vent and pump.  wish i would have done this little experiment years ago. wasted a lot of money on propane and power the past 7 years.</blockquote>

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