usage

Hi I have a builder who needs to know how much water some flats he is building will use, they will have bath with a shower above, whb, wc kitchen sink , dish washer and washer, I have never been asked this be for in all my years . How do you work it out? thanks guys

Hi, I'm being told one thing by an engineer sent by my supplier and another by one from my landlord, I'd greatly appreciate some advice on which ones telling the truth, thank you. I moved into a flat and found that my gas bills were extraordinarily high, my supplier sent out an engineer who...

What is the expected daily usage of an electric combi boiler? I recently got a 12Kw combi boiler installed in a small 1 bedroom flat. It runs the central heating (3 radiators) and the hot water for the shower. I can measure the consumption and it uses 50kw/day! This is a lot more than I...

Hi guys I am Rob and new on this forum, hope someone can shed some light on my very strange issue. Thanks in advance to all the replies. I seem to us around 6 to 7 cubic meters per month. But in October that doubled to nearly 16 cubic meters. The funny thing is I went on holidays from the...

Hi all, After a boiler 'service' this year, the boiler soon stopped igniting immediately after it was switched on, and would usually take about a minute or so to fire up. For various reasons I was unable to get this fixed, so I just let the boiler take its time to ignite when I needed hot...

Hi all, After a boiler 'service' this year, the boiler soon stopped igniting immediately after it was switched on, and would usually take about a minute or so to fire up. For various reasons I was unable to get this fixed, so I just let the boiler take its time to ignite when I needed hot...

Hi, We've just had an extension built and a new oil boiler installed (Greenstar 25/32 CF /RS). The original oil boiler was a worcester bosch that was at least 15- 20 years old. It used about 1500 litres oil per year. The new boiler used 1000 litres in its first 3 months and it looks like...

I am searching for design estimate of daily domestic (non potable) water usage by outpatients in health care facilities. The only data I found was about Guidelines for minimum emergency water quantity for outpatients which is 5 liters/out-patient. I would appreciate any data about regular daily...

Hi All, I wonder if anyone can help? I currently live in rented accommodation and am on a water meter. I have been reviewing my bills over the last 12 months and have noticed that there is a huge difference between the winter and summer months. On further investigation over the last couple...

Please could someone advise me on approx monthly usage of 47KG bottled gas with 14 Rads. Also what would be the tank gas approx cost including mothly tank rental. Thanks,

Bought one of these 2 years ago, total usage probably just over 1 hour in total, cutting access in laminate, the odd trap in floor boards, and tile removal to replace broken ones, just had to send it back to bosch for repair, new gear box needed, £70+ for box and repair, New one at screw fix...

Hi I hope some one can help, I have stared to work for a builder who wants to know the water usage on the house we are working on for the HSBC. There is one bath two showers, 3no whb and 3 WC,s plus kitchen sing dish washer and washer, never been asked about these how do you do it . Thanks in...

hello, we have just moved into a house which seems to have some problems: it has twin potterton suprima 80 boilers separated into 2 zones/2 thermastats supplying a total of 26 rads. The majority of rads have trvs - not all are working. I have been monitory the gas usage daily and plotting what...

Hi I've just got a property with an eight year old back boiler. I've been keeping a note of the meter readings and in 40 days its used 118 m3 units. Its been on a timer coming on twice a day for an hour just heating rads no hot water, as its unoccupied. For two hours it uses 3 units which I...

Hello all, Hoping you can give me some invaluable assistance before I get in touch with my property managementcompany. I've recently moved into a flat where the hot water is seemingly only heated by an. immersion heater. We have Uponor underfloor heating and was wondering if anyone...

Just wondering if an 18kW boiler would be using 18kW of power while running at full rate? I've never thought about it before and it just seems like an awful lot. Thanks for any info.

Hi guys looks like I have been caught out on a new reg that apparantley came in last year, I have been asked to submit water usage calculations to building control on a new build, anyone else done this or know where I start, Apparantly building control will not sign off the building until...

Does anyone make a meter or mechanical timer devise that you can put on the hot water supply,that has maybe a token slot system that allows you so much use of the hot water outlet per token A customer whats one for a shared yard,so he can supply all with hot water for cleaning cars ect but cover...

Please could someone advise - just received our bill and our daily average gas usage over 80 days (12th dec 2010 until 1st of March 2011) 141 KW i have compared this with our neighbour who is home all day and as a 4 bed bed bungalow her average over the same period is 56KW (we have a 2 bed...

Can you easily fit an additional hot water cylinder in tandem to the original cylinder on a gravity fed hot water system? Main requirement is to increase the QTY of hot for pumped showers. Any advice is welcome.