Temporary Hot Water Heater Question

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I really need to remove my hot water cylinder to allow for some rejigging of the rooms etc before putting it all back together including a re plumb of the entire house.

Give it another month and we can probably do away with the central heating but need to retain hot water to 1 bathroom (sink and shower) and preferably the kitchen sink.

Is there anyway to feed these directly from the boiler? Alternatively via electric heaters?

I don't mind spending £200 ish if needed as it will free up a lot of work for me.

There seem to be a lot of options for the kitchen sink like this one <LINK> but I cant see something similar for the bathroom which I guess is due to the required L/min for the shower. I dont want to install an electric shower.

What are my options?
 
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Traditional set up. Boiler located in garage. Hot water cylinder in airing cupboard. Cold water tanks in loft.

It's all coming out to be replaced with an unvented cylinder in the loft.

Sorry the technicals of plumbing aren't a strong point. Does that make sense.
 
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Normal way of dealing with this sketch is use the kettle for hot water for washing up and shaving etc. and go to the gym/local swimming pool/friendly neighbours for showers for the day or 4 it should take professionals to do the work. The shower route is out at the moment cos Covid, one option would be to move the cylinder up to the loft (or anywhere you can get straight runs for feed and expansion) and use that immersion heater to warm the water.
 
There is a lot of builders work to do before so a few days won't cover it. Hadn't thought about moving the cylinder and running the immersion that could work. Could even stick the cylinder n the bathroom and have an under sink unit for the kitchen
 
If you do move the cylinder you must make sure the expansion pipe is still as near vertical as possible, i'd also suggest using thst cylinder stat and a relay to control the temperature (immersion heater thermostats can be bit flakey)
 
Can move the expansion directly above it just punch a hole in the ceiling.

I could have the imersion on a timer switch so there is hot water for a shower in the morning and evening.
 

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