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The Flounder
Hello everyone. I've recently bought an old house with no gas, no central heating and a knackered old electric immersion tank. I'm trying to work out the most sensible way to plumb it for hot water needs. Bit overwhelmed.
Background: the house has no gas and no central heating. All heating is from plug-in bar heaters. The showers are electric. Hot water (serving the taps and the bath) comes from an old electric immersion tank. All plumbing and electrics need redoing. The house has three bathrooms, two baths, and one standard size kitchen sink. Its level of occupancy varies - sometimes it's just me, and sometimes it's four of us using the water at once in the morning and heating the whole house.
It seems wasteful to heat hot water in an immersion tank, which is then only used for washing hands, washing up and occasionally running a bath in the winter.
Would it be feasible to:
(i) put in-line instantaneous water heaters under each bathroom sink,
(ii) put a small (say, 15L) immersion tank beneath the kitchen sink and have that running all year for washing up,
(iii) use electric showers,
(iv) have an immersion tank which only serves the baths and which is only turned on in winter when we will want baths, and
(v) use electric or an air to air heat pump for room-by-room heating.
Or should I invest in a heat pump and a full wet system, and use the heat pump to provide all water for all showers, baths, hand-washing, etc.?
I'm getting a bit overwhelmed. Any advice?
Background: the house has no gas and no central heating. All heating is from plug-in bar heaters. The showers are electric. Hot water (serving the taps and the bath) comes from an old electric immersion tank. All plumbing and electrics need redoing. The house has three bathrooms, two baths, and one standard size kitchen sink. Its level of occupancy varies - sometimes it's just me, and sometimes it's four of us using the water at once in the morning and heating the whole house.
It seems wasteful to heat hot water in an immersion tank, which is then only used for washing hands, washing up and occasionally running a bath in the winter.
Would it be feasible to:
(i) put in-line instantaneous water heaters under each bathroom sink,
(ii) put a small (say, 15L) immersion tank beneath the kitchen sink and have that running all year for washing up,
(iii) use electric showers,
(iv) have an immersion tank which only serves the baths and which is only turned on in winter when we will want baths, and
(v) use electric or an air to air heat pump for room-by-room heating.
Or should I invest in a heat pump and a full wet system, and use the heat pump to provide all water for all showers, baths, hand-washing, etc.?
I'm getting a bit overwhelmed. Any advice?