Immersion or Hive?

levi

We’re currently getting our bathroom done and are considering installing a new Hive which can control hot water and the heating separately or just get a timer switch put on the immersion switch.

We currently have a 2 year old Gloworm boiler set up with a Hive with only a single control. So in the summer we manually turn a lever and it just heats the hot water.

We’re getting a pumped shower installed in place of an electric shower so want to make sure we’ve an efficient and cost effective set up. I know we’ll have to buy a new Hive if we go that route but that’s small beans in the grand scheme of things here.

Appreciate your advice whether to depend on the immersion to top up the hot water from the heating or go the route of setting up the hot water and heating as separate zones with the Hive? Also, what sort of job is setting up the zones? Expensive?

Sleeper12

The electric shower is A energy rated and is cheaper to run than immersion, gas or oil. Having said that a power shower is a more pleasurable experience.

If you are getting zones, a new hive & a power shower then you will have an electrician on site. I'd get him to install a timer on the immersion while he's there. It will add very little to the bill. You can get immersion timer with boost function. There are times when the immersion can work out cheaper than gas or oil particularly if you only want to heat a small amount of water