Install A Geyser Timer ” No more getting up early to switch the geyser on…”.
How do you use your geyser efficiently and more effectively?
Be sure to install a geyser timer, geyser blanket and energy-saving or water-saving shower-heads. Analyse your water usage patterns and then have a geyser timer or similar controller installed to ensure that your geyser will only operate to meet those specific usage requirements.
If you were to have the geyser come on at around 4am and go off at 6am will provide enough hot water for the morning up to around 12pm without having to run the geyser again, if you have a geyser timer and blanket installed. It’s advisable to then have the geyser on between 1pm and 2pm just to maintain the water temperature. After which the geyser can be switched off until around 4pm, and then can stay on until 6pm. Then you are able to switch it off for the rest of the night. By doing it this way, your geyser will not be running during peak demand periods and this will contribute to lower demand on the grid.
In addition energy-saving and water-saving showerheads reduce the flow volume of the water by more than half. You see an average showerhead uses about 20 litres of water per minute, of which around 40% is hot water. So in a single 5-minute shower, that will amount to a 100 litres of water and 40 litres of that will be hot water. When you have installed energy and water efficient shower-heads you can further reduce that flow to just 9 litres per minute.