Charlie: Ed in Uptown says do water circulation systems require a separate piping system or do they use the same pipes that normally supply the water?
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Tom: They usually use the same pipes, but there’s a little … it has to circulate back and forth so it-
Charlie: Do they put some kind of bypass or a loop on it or something?
Tom: Well, it circulates into the cold water side and then … so it evens itself out and it has a little temperature reading that when the water gets hot in the pipe it stops, so you don’t waste water. It doesn’t go down the drain, but there’s not a whole bunch of plumbing that needs to be done, no.
Charlie: Okay. So you put
Tom: It’s interesting how they do it. Yeah. It just puts the cold water back into the cold water pipe.
Charlie: Ed, if you want to know more about that or if maybe you’re curious about that, you can see a video about it on our website.
Tom: There you go.
Charlie: Just go into the search frame on the homepage and type in circulation pump, and that video will pop up for you.