Hi
We've just done a renovation at our house and added a 210L unvented cylinder powered by 2 3kw immersion heaters. The cylinder provides water for two showers and three sinks.
We've also got a combi boiler that runs UFH, a couple of radiators, kitchen tap and a bath.
The boiler is downstairs in the kitchen and cylinder on first floor.
The issue:
We're finding that we're running out of warm water in the cylinder towards late afternoon and heating the cylinder up could take a couple hours to reach temperature providing no one is running water. Because it's late afternoon/evening warming the cylinder up is probably not worth it as overnight prices are considerably cheaper. It just means the bath needs to be used instead of the showers if anyone wants to use it.
As a layman:
I don't know much about plumbing - I'm hoping you guys do . Does such a valve exist where I can have the output of the cylinder pipe and the output of the boiler pipe connect together and a lever can be moved either side to divert the water source. If the cylinder is cold then I can flick the valve to close the cylinder output and open the boiler output and vice versa.
If this is possible then I'll look for plumber to help get this sorted.
Thanks!
We've just done a renovation at our house and added a 210L unvented cylinder powered by 2 3kw immersion heaters. The cylinder provides water for two showers and three sinks.
We've also got a combi boiler that runs UFH, a couple of radiators, kitchen tap and a bath.
The boiler is downstairs in the kitchen and cylinder on first floor.
The issue:
We're finding that we're running out of warm water in the cylinder towards late afternoon and heating the cylinder up could take a couple hours to reach temperature providing no one is running water. Because it's late afternoon/evening warming the cylinder up is probably not worth it as overnight prices are considerably cheaper. It just means the bath needs to be used instead of the showers if anyone wants to use it.
As a layman:
I don't know much about plumbing - I'm hoping you guys do . Does such a valve exist where I can have the output of the cylinder pipe and the output of the boiler pipe connect together and a lever can be moved either side to divert the water source. If the cylinder is cold then I can flick the valve to close the cylinder output and open the boiler output and vice versa.
If this is possible then I'll look for plumber to help get this sorted.
Thanks!