More likely in a hotel though… the delay is the time it takes the hot water to push out the water in the pipes between the hot water heater and the shower. The closer the shower is to the tank the shorter the delay, but also if someone else had been using hot water recently then some or all of the water sitting in the pipes is hot. At a hotel there’s a pretty good chance someone nearby is taking a shower.
Or someone flushed the toilet?
Rarely a problem in a hotel and it would have no impact on the length of time you wait for hot water anyway.
I haven’t read the story, but if hot water is 150 degrees, you’ll want to temper that with cold water. But if someone, or anyone, uses too much cold water while you’re in that shower, you will be scalded.
Geez, fucking check the temp first!!
Who goes into a shower not checking the temp? I do this in every shower ever.
Send this to the Darwin thread.
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Many/most large buildings, including hotels, run a circulation loop with a pump. The water heater could be very far from sinks and showers, and if people aren’t using much water then it could take a loooooong time to push water from the source to the fixture. So they have a loop that circulates hot water through the building and, if it’s not being used, it goes back into the water heater.
I’ve seen them installed in homes but it’s a lot of extra cost to save much less time. More common to find smaller tankless water heaters installed under a sink, still expensive.
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150 is too high for hot water. No human use system should heat it that high. Experts recommend 120. Places that have industrial dishwashers use preheaters near the dishwasher to elevate from regular hot water to dishwashing temp.
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Five-second rule apply here??
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My mother in law had a fish fall on her roof once. A passing osprey was the culprit. I wonder if there is an Act of Bird exclusion in their insurance contract.
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I guess this is technically reported at this point, but…
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I don’t see how travel and accomodation should be covered. Plenty of chances to see her a bit closer to Minnesota -
some “Swifties” also spent thousands of dollars to fly across the globe to see the superstar… like Kelsey Nick from Minnesota:
“I mean, our Airbnb at minimum was 4,000, and then our flights were like 1,500 or something like that. Fifteen to 2,500, so yeah, it was like a minimum of 5,000, I think. That’s not including meals or anything like that. So yeah, it’s a good chunk of change for sure.”
Cancellation cover wouldn’t cover the travel expenses…but I wonder if it would fall under some travel insurance plans.
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I saw an article about a couple chicks that went to Europe to see TS and showed how much it ended up costing them and compared that to what it would have cost them to attend in the US and it turned out to be only slightly more and they got a trip to Europe.
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On the positive side, their nights are freed up in Vienna to do something more interesting.
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I’ve heard, but didn’t confirm, that skiing is similar. About as cheap to fly to Europe from the US and ski for a week vs flying to Denver and paying $180/day at the CO mountains.
When I looked into it (more to explain to Mini Me why we weren’t going than something I was actually considering doing) the cheapest way to see Taylor Swift in concert was NOT to day trip it to the city 100 miles from here. No, it was to fly to either Lisbon or Krakow for a week and see her in one of those cities. The difference in ticket prices more than offset the flights to Europe and hotel.
I bet South America would have been cheaper still but that leg of the tour was over when Mini Me started begging for tickets.
Yeah, when I looked into it, a week in Lisbon or Krakow was cheaper than a day trip to a city two hours from home.
Well… that doesn’t count restaurant meals.
But 2 concert tickets + 2 flights + 1 week at the Holiday Inn in Lisbon or Krakow was less than 2 concert tickets in the United States.