Conservation Tips - buy an insulation blanket for your gas or electric water heater

[Kaleva]

3. My 40 gallon gas water heater is set to pilot only and that provides all the hot water I need.

But I live alone, wash my clothes in cold water only , usually only have a few dishes to wash and I don't leave the water running when taking a shower. I run it long enough to wet down, turn it off while I wash up and then turn it on again to rinse off.

I just moved back here less then a week ago and I did turn the main flame on the water heater to get it up to temp and then I turned the gas valve back to pilot.

I first tried this back in the late summer of 2012 and the gas valve remained in pilot position until I moved out in the spring of 2013 and in all those months, I never ran out of hot water.

Early in 2012, this house was vacant but I was coming over to remodel the kitchen and put in new wiring. The valve on the water heater then was set to pilot and I noticed that the hot water was very hot. So after I moved here later, I remembered that and decided to try and see if I'd have enough hot water with the valve set to pilot and it turned out I did.

Now, this won't work for everyone as one has to be very frugal about hot water use.

The water I have needs to be replaced sometime in the near future and when I do so, it will be another 40 gallon gas water heater with pilot. I give this OP a rec as it would be a very good idea to wrap the new water heater was shown in the video.

Edit: Here is a link to a page which lists alot of conservation tips videos with David Mars:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUJKOXkqaYwDAuVZxp0J7k-A