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Content of the thread: Good afternoon, new joiner here with a DIY (ish) question. I have a hot water cylinder with a single immersion element connected to Economy 7.
My economy seven has two separate consumer units and the hot water is connected to the off-peak unit.
Problem is, I'm running out of hot water before the day it out.
Updating the cylinder to a two-element system and running a second power supply from the 24x7 consumer unit is not an option because it would mean ripping up £100s of new flooring and possibly trashing a load of tiling too.
In my head, my ideal would be some sort of device by the fuse board that powers the single element from off-peak normally but has some sort of boos button that would give a 1 or 2 hour boost before reverting back to the off-peak supply ready to pick up the night-time main heating. Know ye of such a device?
I guess the alternative is to replace the element with a dual element heater and try and pull a second cable from the 24x7 consumer unit to supply a boost. That could be a really tricky cable pull and removing the element could trash the cylinder if I'm unlucky.
Any advice good people?
(I appreciate that new circuits would need to be done under part P and so I would need a sparky involved.)
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Content of the thread: Good afternoon, new joiner here with a DIY (ish) question. I have a hot water cylinder with a single immersion element connected to Economy 7.
My economy seven has two separate consumer units and the hot water is connected to the off-peak unit.
Problem is, I'm running out of hot water before the day it out.
Updating the cylinder to a two-element system and running a second power supply from the 24x7 consumer unit is not an option because it would mean ripping up £100s of new flooring and possibly trashing a load of tiling too.
In my head, my ideal would be some sort of device by the fuse board that powers the single element from off-peak normally but has some sort of boos button that would give a 1 or 2 hour boost before reverting back to the off-peak supply ready to pick up the night-time main heating. Know ye of such a device?
I guess the alternative is to replace the element with a dual element heater and try and pull a second cable from the 24x7 consumer unit to supply a boost. That could be a really tricky cable pull and removing the element could trash the cylinder if I'm unlucky.
Any advice good people?
(I appreciate that new circuits would need to be done under part P and so I would need a sparky involved.)
Two electrical supplies and a single immersion element to read more on the original thread at Plumbing Advice
See also UK Plumbing Advice for all UK plumbing advice needs.
