I’ve a conventional gas boiler and unvented water tank which is probably about 500l; it’s two mètres tall and about a meter across.
I get good hot water pressure at a good temperature (it’s set at 60c) but only enough to fill about 10cm of the bath before it runs cold.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I had a plumber visit who suggested that the main volume of water in the tank isn’t what’s being supplied to the taps, but rather there’s a coil inside the main tank through which the hot water runs to get heated. Is this possible, or likely?
The house is a five story Victorian terrace with five bathrooms, so a system that only supplies such a small amount if hot water seems strange. The boiler’s a 45kw unit, so well capable of providing enough.
The boiler’s in a mews block at the end of the garden with a flat above, so conceivably there was a smaller capacity setup for the flat which someone has then switched for the main house, but does that seem possible?
I get good hot water pressure at a good temperature (it’s set at 60c) but only enough to fill about 10cm of the bath before it runs cold.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I had a plumber visit who suggested that the main volume of water in the tank isn’t what’s being supplied to the taps, but rather there’s a coil inside the main tank through which the hot water runs to get heated. Is this possible, or likely?
The house is a five story Victorian terrace with five bathrooms, so a system that only supplies such a small amount if hot water seems strange. The boiler’s a 45kw unit, so well capable of providing enough.
The boiler’s in a mews block at the end of the garden with a flat above, so conceivably there was a smaller capacity setup for the flat which someone has then switched for the main house, but does that seem possible?