Advice needed with instant hot water

[chaos]

Hello All

I need to find the cheapest way of buying, fitting and running instant hot water in a bathroom. It just needs to service that one room. I have a place where an old calor gas instant heater ( sort found in a static caravan) was if that was the cheapest option. Or I was looking at instant electric water heaters made by Hoter. I wondered if they would be enough to heat water for a bath.

Any advice appreciated

 

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It probably would, but would be better suited for a shower (weak).

 

[oldplumber]

Bin bath and put in a decent mira shower and nice enclosure, cheaper to run in long term, instant water heater and a bath will fail quite quickly over time especially in a hard water area and probably be expensive to run if your always trying to fill a bath.

 

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he will still need hot water output for basin - get a 9k instant water heater, and the output will be very similar to a mira shower (9.5k for a mira sport), plus you can do the basin feed as well.

The unit needs to be close to shower and basin as possible to avoid heat loss. The main expense will be the dedicated electrical connection for a 9k applaince. Fuse box needs to be upto it (RCD/spare way)

I have fitted this before its quite good (check water pressure is adaquate though)

Could be ideal for what you need! I would bin the bath idea myself though, it could get quite expensive otherwise (and slow to fill!)

 

[chaos]

he will still need hot water output for basin - get a 9k instant water heater, and the output will be very similar to a mira shower (9.5k for a mira sport), plus you can do the basin feed as well.

The unit needs to be close to shower and basin as possible to avoid heat loss. The main expense will be the dedicated electrical connection for a 9k applaince. Fuse box needs to be upto it (RCD/spare way)

I have fitted this before its quite good (check water pressure is adaquate though)

Could be ideal for what you need! I would bin the bath idea myself though, it could get quite expensive otherwise (and slow to fill!)

Thank you very much. This sounds like a good idea. I actually have an electric shower already in there above the bath but don't use it as it's useless..I guess the fuse would be the same, so I could more or less swap the units over? I won't be doing it myself, I will have to get someone to do it for me, but want to get my facts straight before hand .
The water is spring water but is a good pressure,

Thank you to everyone for the advice........

 

[stevetheplumber]

be carefull if the old electric shower was useless as it may only be 7kw moving up to a 9.5 may need larger cables and fuse