Why hot water is stored at 60 °C, distributed hot, and how dead legs are limited.
A temperature regime that controls bacteria
Hot water design temperatures are set to control Legionella, which multiplies in warm, stagnant water roughly between 20 and 45 °C. The accepted approach is to keep stored and distributed water out of that band.
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