I am typically the first one in my house to take a shower and I like hot showers. I have noticed that if I take a shower first, the hot water is not that hot and doesn’t last very long. But if others take showers before me and the hot water has to recharge then the hot water is HOT and lasts a long time.
I have a 50 gallon hot water tank.
The only two things I have (besides sinks and showers) that use hot water are a dumb dishwasher and a dumb washing machine.
What I was thinking was to set up an automation in HA to somehow trigger something to use hot water for like 10 minutes in order to get the hot water heater to recharge.
Any ideas?
My shower does this same thing. I’m a tenant and the landlord never seems to have done any preventative maintenance for their home (I’m their first tenant). It definitely is a hotter shower after someone else has already used hot water somewhere else in the house.
Not sure if this is possible or more cost effective, but can you automate or set a timer on your washing machine to do a hot rinse cycle shortly before you wake up?