RE: 1 year on, still looking to "HA my heating"

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, now I think on, I know I've seen ones that are designed for
under-sink mounting in a kitchen that produce *boiling* water, and are
intended to replace having a kettle for boiling water to make hot drinks
etc... ISTR that these maintain a small reservoir of hot water
internally to enable virtually instant delivery of boiling water to
cover the time required for it to begin to heat up the in-flowing cold
supply. I wonder if similar such things have been designed for hand
basins?...

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Paul Gordon
Sent: 24 April 2007 09:16
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 1 year on, still looking to "HA my heating"

Interesting...

There's only me & SWMBO, and I'd only be interested in using something
like this in the main bathroom upstairs, and only for a single hand
basin. This has a problem with "lag" caused by the dead water sat
in the
pipes between the boiler & tap. Because the basin is some 20-odd metres
(as the pipes go) from the boiler, there's quite a bit of cold water to
push through before any hot comes out of the tap. Add to that the
already p1ss-poor performance of the boiler we currently have, which has
terrible lag times to heat up from cold, and an extremely feeble flow
rate and we're talking literally minutes from turning the hot tap on to
getting nice hot water coming out of it... Invariably I've got fed up of
waiting & washed my hands in the cold water & b*ggered off before
the
hot ever comes through, so the DHW system is about as much use as a
chocolate fireguard!

It would be *loverly* to be able to turn on the tap, and have
steaming-hot water delivered within a few seconds... Do these things
operate that quickly? - do they heat the water "enough"

Also, I presume I'd run one of these on a cold supply only? - so the
current hot water pipe to the hot tap would be disconnected & capped
off
yes? - then I'd tee off the cold pipe, through the heater & out to the
hot tap?

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Raymond Kelly
Sent: 24 April 2007 08:57
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 1 year on, still looking to "HA my heating"

I have one of these and used while I had no proper boiler. Can't really
use
it to fill a bath or have a shower, but it basically takes the sting out
of
cold water. I'm still using it now till boiler is commissioned shortly.
Its
probably the best thing you can do for a temporary solution, but not
really
for 'family' use

On 24/04/07, Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>   Paul,
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> Probably the closest in-line heater I've seen is
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>
>
http://tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Water_Heating_Index/Instantaneous_Wat
er_Heaters/index.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/36ka5w
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> Not used them so can't say if they are good / bad.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
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>
>


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