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Gas wont heat water when heating home ?

  • 29-11-2011 8:17pm
    #1
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭


    Folks, quick query

    My folks changed from Oil to Gas recently and I was in the parents house tonight having a bite to eat. Went to do the washing up and there was not hot water even though the heating was on. Found this a bit odd and my Dad said that when they got the boiler put in the plumber told him that it was now against regulations for the water to be heated when the house was being heated and that it had to be done independently. This sounds a bit odd to me. Is this the case ?


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  • #2
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    You can heat them together but you must be able to heat both independently also. Have they hot water mode switched on at the new time clock?


  • #3
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    You can heat them together but you must be able to heat both independently also. Have they hot water mode switched on at the new time clock?

    Yeah they can choose to heat water with the home however when I heat my house it heats my water aswell meaning I don't have to select the water aswell. Is this not the way it should be?


  • #4
    andy2die4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭andy2die4


    That dose'nt sound right to me. Dose your foks home still have hot water storage in the hot press or is the new gas boiler a combi, in which hot tap water and heating water is made as it is needed.


  • #5
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Yeah they can choose to heat water with the home however when I heat my house it heats my water aswell meaning I don't have to select the water aswell. Is this not the way it should be?


    No. times they have a changed. If you want hot water you need to press the button. It's in the current regs.


  • #6
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    andy2die4 wrote: »
    That dose'nt sound right to me. Dose your foks home still have hot water storage in the hot press or is the new gas boiler a combi, in which hot tap water and heating water is made as it is needed.

    Going to plead the 5th on that and show my ignorance towards heating systems. All i know it's a nice fancy (blue lights on the front) condenser boiler (which I assume uses the exhausts as energy)
    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    No. times they have a changed. If you want hot water you need to press the button. It's in the current regs.

    Adds up to what my Dad said alright. Thanks for that Micky Dolenz.... I'm somewhat bemused by it though. I would have thought with us all slowly becoming tree huggers that it would be more logical for a fire boiler to automatically heat water at the same time as the house. Clearly not :confused:

    Cheers :)


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  • #7
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Your welcome :)

    A lot of people have need for only a little hot water, with electric showers, non hot water using appliances etc. So if may mean you only have hot water on for an hour a day, while you may have your heating on for up to 8 hours a day. You stop trying to heat 120L of water up and keeping it at a high enough temp. Over the course of a year there would be a saving on energy usage and money.


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