Hot Water Pressure

outlaw777

Hi I have an old electric heating system with a tank, hot water pressure is fine in all taps expect kitchen, a plumber recommend I buy a new tap which he said would fix my issue however he totally ripped me off and made the tap worse. I have been advised to get a new gas boiler by a friend who he said this would fix all my problems is this correct?

Hasbeen

Do you mean an immersion heater to heat a copper tank? Or an electric storage heaters?

Gas central heating will be a lot cheaper? And will add value.

But if one tap then it is probably a new type with flexible tails which will cut down output, and flow of water?

Gerry1

A combi gas boiler may suit you because the hot water will be at mains pressure.

Rodders53

outlaw777 said:I have been advised to get a new gas boiler by a friend who he said this would fix all my problems is this correct?

No.  It would be the start of a different set of problems, and a very large expense if there isn't gas in the property already.

 A vented HW tank will not provide the same pressure or flow rate as the cold tap direct off the mains in a kitchen.

What sort of tap or taps did you have in the kitchen and what sort (make and model) did the plumber supply and fit?

It's possible the old pipe/tap/strainer in the kitchen was simply part blocked (furred up with limescale) in a hard water area?

Mickey666

outlaw777 said:

Hi I have an old electric heating system with a tank, hot water pressure is fine in all taps expect kitchen, a plumber recommend I buy a new tap which he said would fix my issue however he totally ripped me off and made the tap worse. I have been advised to get a new gas boiler by a friend who he said this would fix all my problems is this correct?

If hot water pressure is fine everywhere except the kitchen then it points to a problem with the kitchen tap and or the pipework rather than a fundamental pressure problem, so I'm not sure the plumber was wrong to suggest a new kitchen tap.  He may have bodged the replacement of course.  When you say he 'ripped me off', how much did he charge?
Replacing the entire system with a gas boiler seems an expensive way to fix a problem with only one tap.

outlaw777

Immersion heater to heat a copper tank yes. There is a gas connection. A few people have told me its not the tap but a boiler will fix everything...

matelodave

outlaw777 said:

Immersion heater to heat a copper tank yes. There is a gas connection. A few people have told me its not the tap but a boiler will fix everything...

It probably wont - as said above, if all the other taps are OK then the problem lies either with the pipework or the tap. Just fitting a new boiler will have no effect whatsoever if your hot water is derived from a hot water cylinder however its heated.

It's hard to understand what the plumber did apart from "ripping you off" - a bit more info is required. Did you get a new tap, was the plumbing checked right through. Even if you did get a new tap, what sort did you get, how is it plumbed in - flexible tails can get kinks, have you got isolating valves between the tap and the pipework.

It's not clear whats going on - you've got another thread going asking about gas and electric heating so I suspect that you are all electric (with the most expensive Fischer elctric heaters)
Just tacking a gas boiler onto your existing hot water tank wont assist you kitchen tap problem and if the problem is with your tap or the plumbing between it and the boiler then it needs to be sorted out before installing either a new tank or even a boiler.