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Hello all,
Just an idea to reduce some of my bills, but while my washing machine & dishwasher have cold water feeds and then heat the cold water.
If I was to use the hot water feed from the combi which is only 3m away, even though the initial water flow will not be hot, it will soon
Would this lessen the amount of electricity used to heat the water ?
I'm pretty sure that it costs less to heat water with gas than it does electricity ?
While typing this I have discussed the idea with another engineer in the room & he says the water will get too hot, so I'm thinking about adding a thermostatic mixing valve set to about 30+ degrees then the machines only have a little bit of heating to do.
I can see that a thermostatic mixing valve costs a few tens of pounds so it would have to be on a long while before I make actual savings (unless I can get one for nowt from somewhere).
What do the experts think, would this work?
what are the pros & cons?
The washer are used daily.
Just an idea to reduce some of my bills, but while my washing machine & dishwasher have cold water feeds and then heat the cold water.
If I was to use the hot water feed from the combi which is only 3m away, even though the initial water flow will not be hot, it will soon
Would this lessen the amount of electricity used to heat the water ?
I'm pretty sure that it costs less to heat water with gas than it does electricity ?
While typing this I have discussed the idea with another engineer in the room & he says the water will get too hot, so I'm thinking about adding a thermostatic mixing valve set to about 30+ degrees then the machines only have a little bit of heating to do.
I can see that a thermostatic mixing valve costs a few tens of pounds so it would have to be on a long while before I make actual savings (unless I can get one for nowt from somewhere).
What do the experts think, would this work?
what are the pros & cons?
The washer are used daily.