So I live in northern Europe in an apartment and I’ve never had a problem or even head of people in my country having the hot water run out, so how does it do that? I guess in a house you have a water heater but doesn’t it just automatically heat up more water.
I hear this in a lot of tv shows and movies that’s now found out about this phenomenon
know it sounds stupid lol but I cant stop thinking about this
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In the US, it’s common to have a water heater that has a tank to hold hot water, and the water heater isn’t actually powerful enough to heat the water as fast as you use it so if you take multiple showers back to back you can empty the tank of hot water. The water heater also serves the entire home (so two people can often take a shower at the same time and use up the hot water in the tank).
My understanding is in many places in Europe, you instead have an electric hot water heater for every spot that needs it (such as the shower), and not one central hot water heater.
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