Designing en suites with only cold water at the basin?

[cdbe]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how are you running a bath and a shower, or 3 showers, or 2 showers and some washing up, simultaneously off a combi? It may not be something you will do with your family situation but is what most people would expect from a large 5 bed house. The heat loss from a modern cylinder is negligible and it's designed to do exactly that.

Fortunately your average surveyor wouldn't even comment on a 28kw combi feeding a 5 bathroom house so you'll have no worries when selling so just do what works for you.

 

[ATTQ]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how are you running a bath and a shower, or 3 showers, or 2 showers and some washing up, simultaneously off a combi? It may not be something you will do with your family situation but is what most people would expect from a large 5 bed house. The heat loss from a modern cylinder is negligible and it's designed to do exactly that.

Fortunately your average surveyor wouldn't even comment on a 28kw combi feeding a 5 bathroom house so you'll have no worries when selling so just do what works for you.

Its just the family bathroom shower and tap and kitchen sink from the combi. 2 en suites electric showers. When we moved in the heat loss from this tank was so much the bedroom where its boxed into the corner was uncomfortably hot, the electric emersion was on and we've never used it since. Just broken the enclosure apart now and its got some ancient looking wallpaper in there, but i think this house had a lot of work in the 80s judging by the newspaper filler in various places. I hope the scrap value is good these days

 

[ATTQ]

Is it right to have mains cold in bathroom for sink and cistern where the hot will be from the combi and tank fed cold for en suites cistern and basins including teeing off for the under sink heaters?

i'm quite lucky that the mains cold already passes under where the family bathroom will be before going up to the tank and the it tees off and back down for both electric showers.

 

[ATTQ]

definite signs of previous DIY...