Why hot water is stored hot and cold kept cold, and how dead legs and stagnation raise bacterial risk.
Hot water systems carry two opposite risks that have to be balanced: scalding from water that is too hot, and bacterial growth in water that is too warm and too still. Understanding the temperature picture is core revision.
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