Hot water taps - any experience?

scottishblondie

We recently bought a new house and are running in to problems with how long it takes to get hot water to the kitchen and the cloakroom sinks. The boiler is situated at the back of the house in the utility room, and the kitchen and cloakroom are at the front roughly 15m away. It takes at least a minute to get hot water, by which time you’ve given up on it to wash your hands! It feels wasteful as well as annoying, since the boiler gets fired up then the hot water just ends up sitting in the pipes going cold again.

We’re considering getting an instant warm water tap for the cloakroom and a hot water tap with a tank for the kitchen. The consummer unit is located close to both and we have underfloor access for running any new circuits that might be required. Does anyone have a recommendation or any experience with these types of taps?

JEN22

We have a quooker its fantastic

sew_what

JEN22 wrote: »

We have a quooker its fantastic

So do we, but you don't want to go washing your hands under it!! (only done it once....)

Moss5

One undersink water tank could feed the hot-taps in your kitchen/utility/cloakroom.
The water inlet to the hot tank could be from the combi boiler hot water outlet.
Use of any connected hot tap would cause the combi boiler to fire-up, so the hot tank would be replenished with pre-heated water.
This method uses cheaper gas water heating, but without the delay.
The electrical element in the tank would maintain a store of hot water for supply over short pipe runs.
https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/water-heaters/cat830974?waterheaterlocation=undersink%3Bundersink_or_oversink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2-5uxYxYE

scottishblondie

The Quooker taps look fantastic, but I fear they are out of our price range! A pity as their Flex model looks like everything I want.

Moss5 that is an interesting idea, but I think that although we would get hot water faster at the tap, we would still be wasting a lot of hot water from the boiler in the pipes. I think most of the time the tank would only receive cold water as by the time the hot water was arriving into the tank from the boiler the tap would have been turned off again.

Heedtheadvice

There are many of varying quality type and price.
Stiebel Eltron are considered the best quality -at a high price! - and high power (so will need it's own electricity supply). Other's are cheaper but much lower power often about 3kW (about the same as a kettle) so work best only at lower flow rates (such as a single 'tap'tap or a shower). They sometimes struggle a bit when the water inlet is very cold.


Example https://www.amazon.co.uk/Redring-Powerstream-Unvented-Instantaneous-Heater/dp/B004TRRRHO/ref=sr_1_6?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1541024822&sr=1-6&keywords=tankless+water+heater
A search on Amazon for tankless water heaters will give many. Triton for example do a 'tap' style one for well under £100.

scottishblondie

Thank you a tankless heater under the clock room sink would certainly work, and is a much more attractive solution than the instantaneous warm water taps I had seen!

It would also work in the kitchen, if we decide against a boiling water tap.