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Hot Water Cylinder heating?

  • 24-01-2018 10:30PM
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    I am just looking for some advice. I currently use a lot of hot water in house. I have the below cylinder installed. Put in brand new last year to try and stop heat loss

    https://www.goodwins.ie/products/insulated-copper-cylinder-indirect-1050x450mm-42x18-2310525.html?filter_set[]=9,49

    I put timer in which runs in middle of night on cheaper electricity. In morning the tank should be full.

    By the time kids have bath at 6 the water was not hot mostly because it was used up so I had the timer kicking in from 3-6. This was done via immersion.

    Im trying to reduce the electric costs so was talking to friend and he said to just use boiler in winter months as it is going at same time. So I switched on this evening to heat water. I have a dual system. The main questions are:
    How long would it take to heat 150ltr using the boiler? just an average, I know it wil be different.
    If using the immersion how long should it take to heat a full tank?

    Thanks for advice


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Just searching for answers to my own problem but came across this one.

    Depends on how deep your baths are, how many kids are using it, do they refill the bath each time etc.

    Obviously the more baths, the deeper you like your water or the hotter you like the bath the more hot water used ( i'm sure someone will have facts n figures ) but is a 146.5L capacity enough?

    https://www.hotwater.org.uk/sizing-a-hot-water-cylinder/


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