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Water is not hot when taps on full - PLEASE HELP! Driving me MAD!
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Hello, I wonder if anyone can help? I have a fairly large house, combi-boiler feeding about 10 radiators, two showers, two bathrooms. Rarely are all the radiators/showers.baths on at the same time - EVER.
We have to fire the radiators up in order to 'warm' up the water.
The main problem we seem to have is this (and being a busy working family with a toddler, it IS an issue)...
If we run a bath, we have to basically let the tap 'trickle' in order to get any lovely hot water out! This takes about 30+minutes to half fill a bath(!)... If we put the tap on full flow, that water is STONE cold... The same with the shower(s) - we either get up, put the shower on, go and put the kettle on, go for a long walk, whatever... come back 15 minutes later and the shower is just starting to get warm!
As you can imagine, two people getting ready for work in the morning and getting a toddler ready for nursery, it's just not acceptable to waste all this water for such a long amount of time, in order to get a luke-warm 5 minute shower/bath!
I'm 40, lived in loads of different types of places, large and small and up until this house, always managed to put a tap on FULL blast and the water comes out steaming hot! We just can't understand it.
Any plumber we've had always says something like "You need to have your tap on just a little for the water to be hot flowing" – but it just doesn't sit with me, as in my flat of 6 years, once lived in a 7-bed house, my old 2-bed house - all combi boilers, all water flowing fast and hot! I just haven't got the patience to drip feed water into a bath, nor the time with a baby in the house...
Any suggestions? I would do anything for a hot FAST bath or shower! If I can go back to my plumber and tell him the EXACT solution, that would help:)) MANY thanks in advance!
We have to fire the radiators up in order to 'warm' up the water.
The main problem we seem to have is this (and being a busy working family with a toddler, it IS an issue)...
If we run a bath, we have to basically let the tap 'trickle' in order to get any lovely hot water out! This takes about 30+minutes to half fill a bath(!)... If we put the tap on full flow, that water is STONE cold... The same with the shower(s) - we either get up, put the shower on, go and put the kettle on, go for a long walk, whatever... come back 15 minutes later and the shower is just starting to get warm!
As you can imagine, two people getting ready for work in the morning and getting a toddler ready for nursery, it's just not acceptable to waste all this water for such a long amount of time, in order to get a luke-warm 5 minute shower/bath!
I'm 40, lived in loads of different types of places, large and small and up until this house, always managed to put a tap on FULL blast and the water comes out steaming hot! We just can't understand it.
Any plumber we've had always says something like "You need to have your tap on just a little for the water to be hot flowing" – but it just doesn't sit with me, as in my flat of 6 years, once lived in a 7-bed house, my old 2-bed house - all combi boilers, all water flowing fast and hot! I just haven't got the patience to drip feed water into a bath, nor the time with a baby in the house...
Any suggestions? I would do anything for a hot FAST bath or shower! If I can go back to my plumber and tell him the EXACT solution, that would help:)) MANY thanks in advance!
Answers
Loiner, I guess you've turned the heating and hot water temperature controls up to max? Normally, with a large enough boiler, settings of approx three quarters is about right.
As the others have said, it does sound as though the boiler is underpowered
As the others have said, it does sound as though the boiler is underpowered
11:21 Mon 06th Feb 2012
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