If you follow the home improvement thread, you'll know I recently installed a large commercial sink outside my basement to wash my brewing equipment and smoking equipment. This is a huge improvement over my previous setup, where I'd haul 6 gallons of water at at time down to the basement to brew. I've got a tap to garden hose converter, a devoted garden hose, and an inline filter so I can run hot water directly from my hot water heater into the brew kettle. So instead of starting out with water around 60 degrees, I'll start out around 150, which should drastically cut down my brewing time. Between the mashing and the sparging, it was taking me forever to heat up the water. I'm planning on brewing again Saturday, and my hope is that it'll cut my brewing from around 4 to 4.5 hours down to about 2.5 hours.