Which is the best hot water system for me to have installed for my all electric first floor flat?

Question

Cold Water pressure is 2 bar but drops to virtually zero when a tap is used. Hot water pressure is useless. Current system is cylinder system heated by immersion and cannt be fitted with a pump to improve things as there is not enough cold water storage.

Answer 1

Run your cold water off the mains.

Hot water via a high pressure storage system = to mains pressure ( this would be much better).

If you have a bath, then you will need to store a lot of hot water.

You could try an in-flow water heater ( heats up the water as you use it) but the water flow rate will be slow.





Is your problems due to flow rate or water pressure?



The header tank on your gravity feed system. whats your header hight? ( the hight the bottom of your header tank is from the highest tap/shower outlet).

can you increase the hight of your header tank?



Please provide more info, for better answers:-

your shower, electric or mixer?

do you have a bath?

header tank size and header hight?

Can you install a bigger header tank? (then pump)

How many bathrooms?

What is your current flow rate? Hot& cold reading.



What are your goals? better shower flow rate or pressure or ?



(plumber).

p.s normal for a pressure reading to be zero when a tap is open.

Answer 2

I would go with the Megaflow type idea using off peak Economy 10 to give you night time cheap rate and an afternoon boost. The hot will come out at mains pressure and you can use a good quality thermostatic mixer shower with 15mm pipes. You will get a really powerfull shower.(I have an Ariston heated by gas but it has an emergency immersion heater so the result will be the same)

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I may be out of date, but you used to be able to install off-peak water storage. It' s a very well insulated hot water cylinder that uses cheaper night time electricity which you can draw off during the day. If you are already on off-peak (storage space heating) this would seem to be worth investigating. If not, you would have to have an off-peak meter fitted with acompanying tariff charge so cost becomes more of an issue.

Answer 5

I use an Ariston unvented tank which delivers hot water at mains pressure and limits it to 3 bar. It also equalises the cold water pressure to the hot.

Answer 6

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