I'm now in the market for a hot water heater for hand washing in the workshop as I've at long last now got running water. Thought this would be easy......but it doesn't feel like it.......there seems to be a wide variety of systems, from tanks with spouts over the sink to heating taps. Without spending a fortune, has anyone bought such a beast and what would you recommend?
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RobinBHM
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Ill be watching this with interest, I have the same issue.
The last I had broke and Im thinking of something more substantial, but there are loads of different options, as Deema says.
The last I had broke and Im thinking of something more substantial, but there are loads of different options, as Deema says.
Phil Pascoe
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A £5 kettle from Tesco? 
No skills
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Depends what you want from your hot water supply, a constant source of hot water for as long as the tap runs or a unit that provides 4/5 litres of hot water then requires a minute or two to heat up the next lot. Different animals really.
No skills
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RobinBHM":1zthbihn said:
How did it break? If it just stopped working it might just be an internal fuse.
It's just for hand washing, running a sink of warm water for washing up etc, it's not for a constant running tap of hot water.
There is just so much choice and massively varying prices, the last thing I want is to buy a 'good value' option and find my workshop a pile of ash due to my economy!
There is just so much choice and massively varying prices, the last thing I want is to buy a 'good value' option and find my workshop a pile of ash due to my economy!
No skills
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We use hyco 5l over sink units for our site cabins, performance is as above - you'll get 3-4 litres of hot and youll have to wait a minute or two for the unit to heat the next lot up.
RobinBHM
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No skills":pw6ri86o said:
An apprentice tightened it up until the knob and valve snapped off! The problem is that the on / off tap also acts as a vent so people think that if it dribbles to tighten more to stop it.....
Chrispy
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I have an undersink jobby it pre-heats and holds 5 or 10L, plumbs into a normal sink tap and plugs into 13A socket, always have hot water when I need it, first one lasted 13 years which I have just replaced with one from screwfix.
Had this one for a couple years now. Had a much more expensive brand one before, that developed a fault. Replacement part didn't fix it, so this was bought at about half the cost. About £160 if memory serves me correctly. It's 3 phase, and can give scolding water on demand. I wonder if an old electric shower may be good enough if you had one spare ?
Coley
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I installed the 7kw Triton T30i Hand washer. You can buy them for under £50 and are very easy to install. Just remember your wire loading (6mm min). The thing is for washing hands (obviously) and if you need a little hot water in a bucket or your sink for cleaning jobs (I regularly use it for cleaning our bbq and other messy jobs). It provides pretty much instant hot water (give or take 5 secs) But if you need a lot of hot water or a big bucket of hot water, you may be standing a while as the water quantity and pressure isn't your average household pressure/quantity!.
My father-in-law installed a boiler type water heater that sits under his sink. If like me, you're a hobbyist and not in the garage/workshop every day, then having an under sink heater thermostatically boiling away, isn't a very economic way of getting (instant) hot water. If you don't want the thing heating up to temp all day long, then you will need to switch the thing off and when in the garage again, remember to switch it back on (and wait for the thing to heat up - not so instant hot water). This again was another reason I didn't chose the under sink boiler system.
But like everything else, it's a personal preference.
Jonny
My father-in-law installed a boiler type water heater that sits under his sink. If like me, you're a hobbyist and not in the garage/workshop every day, then having an under sink heater thermostatically boiling away, isn't a very economic way of getting (instant) hot water. If you don't want the thing heating up to temp all day long, then you will need to switch the thing off and when in the garage again, remember to switch it back on (and wait for the thing to heat up - not so instant hot water). This again was another reason I didn't chose the under sink boiler system.
But like everything else, it's a personal preference.
Jonny
Monkey Mark
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Have you considered one of the instant hot water taps?
Something like
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fit-Into-Every ... +water+tap
Something like
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fit-Into-Every ... +water+tap
