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Immersion Heater
vicsar
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Am in process of buying a house and one point on the survey says that - the hot water storage tank is fitted with two electric immersion heaters but one is boken/damaged and needs to be inspected and repaired. How much is this likely to cost? and is it a simple problem to fix?
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Impossible to say without looking - so get quotes. And why 2?
Electric immersion is expensive to run imo.0 -
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If it is not seized in the cylinder a half hour job and £20.00 for the heater. If it is truly stuck then the cylinder will probably get damaged trying to remove it so about £300.00 all in.0
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1 Why bother to replace it if expensive to run?
2 Replacement heater obtainable from www.screwfix.com part number 31397 or 40815.
3 I would try removing it but if it is stuck or would need a lot of force, leave alone.0 -
As you have a tank with immersion heater, the house probably has an old boiler, or no CH system or a warm air system.If it's an old boiler then budget for its replacement which will be far more costly than IH replacement.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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We have hot water heater by the gas boiler but we also have an immersion heater. Never used normally but when the gas boiler packed up and took a couple of weeks to get replaced then having unlimited hot water was very nice.
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i had 2 immersion heating rods in one hot water tank... it meant that there were two switches - one for "bath" where the whole tank was heated up, and the other was "sink" so if you just wanted to wash up only the top 1/3rd of the tank got hot - very very economical....0
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lincroft1710 wrote: »As you have a tank with immersion heater, the house probably has an old boiler, or no CH system or a warm air system.
On the contrary. Modern, non-combi, systems are just as likely to have an immersion heater as an old system. Given the higher costs of electricity they are usually intended as backup.
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