heating the water by the emersion.......

[strawberriesandcream01]

Hi. We have a strange boiler that only lets us have the heating and hot water on together, I can turn down the temp of heating so it doesn't come on but heats water. We have switched the heating off completely as our gas bills are so high. We now heat the hot water by switching on the emersion. Is this a really expensive way to heat thr water. At weekends we have to switch emersion on twice a day.

i don't have an emersion to switch water on by- but in my previous house the boiler waas like that, so i heated via the emersion but it was more expensive that way than the gas was
LOL did you move into my old house?/

Way more expensive to use immersion, and very inefficient as it only heats top part of the water cylinder rather than the whole thing. Speaking from experience as (1) immersion switch was accidently left on in house we rented and (2) we had to use immersion when we were without boiler in our new house for nearly 3 months. Just watch that electricity meter spin round when you switch the immersion on.

i have a similar thing except I can have

everything off
water on
heaing and water on

i find half an hour of heating the hot water today more than enough for the following 24 hours

(i dont have an immerson btw)

We have oil-fired boiler & think immersion heater may be cheaper (for us).

You would be better off burning the £5 notes for fuel rather than using the immersion!

We used to just have an immersion heater for hot water and our bills weren't too bad BUT we had no central heating so weren't paying out for that. We have now moved to a house twice the size of the old one but I don't think our bills will be anymore because of the cost of the immersion - it will be interesting to see!

Well i programmed the water to come on for an hour earlier. To me it feels better to do that than to keep turning on the immersion and then if I turned it on tonight there is no hot water in the morning or the afternoon.