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Gas Hot Water Heater Turn down the temperature setting on your gas hot water heater. With a gas heater it is as easy as turning a dial! This is something very easy to experiment with and can save big money. Turn it down to a little bit below warm, try it for a couple days. Too cold? Turn it up a bit. You can also turn it to “vacation” if you go away for more than a day. Recently we went away for a long weekend, I turned the hot water heater to vacation Friday morning, when we returned with relatives Sunday evening one of them took a shower. I apologized when they came downstairs saying I had forgotten to turn the hot water heater back on! They said they didn’t even notice. I took a shower a half hour later and it wasn’t hot, but it was still comfortable. Needless to say, I never turned it back on Sunday night. Monday night (Hot and humid 90 degrees) I took another shower and I must say it was a little brisk, but the whole experience was kind of interesting, not heating any hot water for 4 days, heck thats 12% of my billing period with no usage!

With 125 million households in the US heating 40 gallons of water amounts to 5 billion gallons of water being kept hot! What a waste! Turn your gas hot water heater down today.