Removing hot water cylinder

BAABAA96

hi all,

we have a large old hot water cylinder in our house (really old ex council house). weve just our new bathroom in where we removed the bath and installed an electric shower. in the next few weeks we are getting a kitchen upgrade which will include a new dishwasher.

ive asked a couple of plumbers about removing the hot water cylinder so that i can open up the space and make it part of the bedroom, and they have all said i am mad to get rid of it. i know by getting rid of it i wont have hot water in either sink but is there any other downsides to getting rid of it?

as far as i can see the only sacrifice is hot water in the bathroom sink, as we would normally just heat a kettle of water when we were washing dishes by hand, and sure now we will have a dishwasher. we only have a regular gas boiler not a combi boiler

monseiur

I would be inclined to agree with your plumber, but if you remove it beware that the cylinder is very valuable ...so don't let your plumber do you a ''favour'' by taking it off your hands😁

antoinolachtnai

You will make the house less marketable if you want to sell it. That’s the biggest thing.

If you are going to live there for a long time and are really convinced you have a better use for the space you can do it, sure.

Personally I wouldn’t do it. I like the comfort of a pumped shower from a hot cylinder.

an option to have hot water at taps is to get a small water heater to feed the taps. This could go under one or other sink but if the distance isn’t too big one heater might be able to feed the two sinks. Maybe this option will make your plumber feel less bad about carrying out orders!

BAABAA96

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119938717#Comment_119938717

haha yes ive thought about that, would probably make the money back on the labour for actually taking it out if i sold it afterwards!

BAABAA96

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119938731#Comment_119938731

this is likely a forever home so the value of taking it out would be more for me than with plans to sell in future

we have the electric shower which is really good so ive no thermostat/pumped shower installed even, so the only two areas that would lack hot water in the kitchen and bathroom sinks

i had a plumber suggest the small heater under the kitchen sink alright, but he still thought it was better to have the cylinder over that!

Sleeper12

I agree totally with the plumber. What happens if your electric shower breaks on Christmas Eve? You will have no hot water for 4 days at a minimum. Possibly over a week.

Plenty of people remove the hot water cylinder but they install a combi boiler at the same time so they aren't removing the hot water supply as such. They are replacing stored hot water with a combi boiler

dathi

you could always change your cylinder for an unvented one and move it to the attic