Hot water

Tranquil

Hello,
I have electric heating and an electric shower in my small flat. I get hot water for bath, sinks (bathroom and kitchen) through an immersion heater. The problems that I am having are:
- the water tank is extremely loud when in use
- it can take a little while to get going meaning I start running kitchen tap for five minutes before cleaning dishes
- it does not hold enough (or heat enough? not really sure how it works anyway) to fill the bath, meaning if I do have a bath, I top it up with boiled kettle water
The only benefits are being able to dry my laundry in the water tank cupboard within a day.

I am very unfamiliar with any other options, and I am wondering if I do have any other options? I am planning to keep my electric heating for a variety of reasons so wouldn't be looking to get a boiler, but maybe that would be my only alternative? Otherwise, a new and larger immersion heater?
Any help appreciated.

Tom99

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]You probably have an immersion heater dipping into the top of the tank so only the water at the top gets heated.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]You can have tanks with 2 immersion heaters, one at top and one at bottom. The bottom one will heat the whole tank.[/FONT]