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Water Heater

windbound · 2019-02-25 11:24:07

Hello, Would using a 70 litre water heater in attic be sufficient supply for kitchen and bathroom sink and a Saturday night bath?

25-02-2019 11:24am

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windbound

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Hello,

Would using a 70 litre water heater in attic be sufficient supply for kitchen and bathroom sink and a Saturday night bath?

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#2 25-02-2019 8:13pm

_Brian

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Wouldn’t be enough for a bath.

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#3 25-02-2019 9:03pm

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_Brian wrote: »

Wouldn’t be enough for a bath.

Thanks for that. May try something else. I thought I might get away with a 70 litre. Not sure how much an average bath takes. I'd be mixing it with cold water too.

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#4 25-02-2019 9:52pm

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70l is the total capacity.

You get about half the volume at full temp.

But as it’s being filled with cold as the hot is leaving there is mixing and cooling happening as you pour.

So from half onwards it cools gradually to cold at the end.

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#5 26-02-2019 12:38pm

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A bath is about 200l upwards, depending how deep, big.

For some reason I can't get the Benny Hill song out of my head now.

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#6 27-02-2019 9:25am

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Thanks Brian and Purgative and Benny for the advice.

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#7 24-05-2019 4:39pm

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Went with a 100 litre water heater for the bath. Sufficient hot water and working out great.

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