Hello,
If anyone can advise ont he following, i'd be grateful....
I have a Baxi 80 combi, and it's never really been up to the job of heating the water hot enough for a shower, so my plumber turned down the input flow rate so that the boiler effectively had slightly less to heat up, and hence , hotter water. So I have hot showers, but the flow rate is crap!
Anyhow, I was wondering, my radiators get so hot you can't touch them for more than a second, and I thought that since a hot water tank is in effect type a type of radiator that simply heats water up instead of air, can I add a hot water cylinder (and header tank) as if it was an additional raidator so when my heating is on, it also heats up some water, which I could then use to supply a feed to my shower. I'm aware I would have to have some sort of 3 port valve installed to prevent the radiators coming on during summer when i only wanted to heat up the water. I'd like to keep the normal 'instant hot water' feed to all other outlets int he house. I just want a pumped power shower to enjoy without going to the expense of having a ridiculously expensive electric shower installed as this would include having lots of electrical work done as my fuse box has no spurs left on it.
Is this possible, safe, worth it?
cheers
If anyone can advise ont he following, i'd be grateful....
I have a Baxi 80 combi, and it's never really been up to the job of heating the water hot enough for a shower, so my plumber turned down the input flow rate so that the boiler effectively had slightly less to heat up, and hence , hotter water. So I have hot showers, but the flow rate is crap!
Anyhow, I was wondering, my radiators get so hot you can't touch them for more than a second, and I thought that since a hot water tank is in effect type a type of radiator that simply heats water up instead of air, can I add a hot water cylinder (and header tank) as if it was an additional raidator so when my heating is on, it also heats up some water, which I could then use to supply a feed to my shower. I'm aware I would have to have some sort of 3 port valve installed to prevent the radiators coming on during summer when i only wanted to heat up the water. I'd like to keep the normal 'instant hot water' feed to all other outlets int he house. I just want a pumped power shower to enjoy without going to the expense of having a ridiculously expensive electric shower installed as this would include having lots of electrical work done as my fuse box has no spurs left on it.
Is this possible, safe, worth it?
cheers