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hi!
my landlord told me yesterday that its better to leave the emersion on all the time instead on turning it off because the power needed to heat the water is much more then just keeping it on all the time.
really?
and for the enviroment as well as the price?
.. oh an emersion is the boiler. where the hot press is. its to heat the water in ones house. in ireland we call it an emersion. in the old days it was a crime to leave the house and leave the emersion on... parents would go mad... the water would be hot for ages.. etc. anyway our flat is old and has one of these things that are a thing of the past now.
so can anyone shed light on the questions i have?!
thanks!!
my landlord told me yesterday that its better to leave the emersion on all the time instead on turning it off because the power needed to heat the water is much more then just keeping it on all the time.
really?
and for the enviroment as well as the price?
.. oh an emersion is the boiler. where the hot press is. its to heat the water in ones house. in ireland we call it an emersion. in the old days it was a crime to leave the house and leave the emersion on... parents would go mad... the water would be hot for ages.. etc. anyway our flat is old and has one of these things that are a thing of the past now.
so can anyone shed light on the questions i have?!
thanks!!
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Wed, July 29, 2009 - 4:07 AMImmersion? -
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Wed, July 29, 2009 - 6:12 AMWater heater.
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Wed, July 29, 2009 - 6:22 AMIf it's old throw it out and get a modern one. They are a hell of a lot more efficient and effective.
The Instant water heaters are also damn good these days having come a very long way in the lase decade. -
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Thu, July 30, 2009 - 2:49 PMIf they're at all like American ones (do a search on the internet to see if yours is like ours in the US), they'll hold hot water for quite a long period of time when off, and then you're just dealing with the 'heat it back up to hot' issue once. I assume yours is electric, from what you're saying. it's all the same, just that it's easier to turn off an electric.
we have timers in the US just for this purpose (not really common but people do install them) and there's nothing wrong with turning off the water heater except for an hour before you're expecting to be home or showering or whatever.
I deal with tank-type water heaters extensively so I'm pretty confident in all this. -
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Thu, July 30, 2009 - 2:50 PMalso, whether you turn it on and off or not, an additional layer of insulation will help- here we have 'water heater blankets' that are basically a fiberglass 'blanket' wrapped in plastic to keep the itchy fiberglass from escaping, and you just tape it around the existing water heater insulation and sheathing . -
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Mon, August 3, 2009 - 12:47 PMOne summer I experimented (this was summer and fall, really, so not very cold I have to admit) -- I only turned the hot water heater on when I needed to take a shower and I'd do the dishes then too; there already was a convenient switch for it. My electric bill just plummeted, it was dramatically lower. I was trying to see just how low I could go on my electric bill since it was so high and I didn't know why. Eventually I just started turning off all the electricity except when I was home so the fridge wouldn't run. (This is how I discovered that my house was paying for the pump for the well that served 4 houses, by the way. That's why it was so high.) -
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Re: emersion cost less if left on all the time?
Mon, August 3, 2009 - 7:47 PMthat was basically my experience too. We did two things to lower costs and bills in general:
-turn off the water heater
-take baths instead of showers, and then leave the water in the bathtub and bucket-flush the toilet out of that water. This was a household of 3 so there were plenty of flushings that used up that water.
After a year of this, there was a complete change of housemates in that house, and their habits changed as well. They left the water heater on and used conventional showers and toilet flushings.
Not surprisingly, water usage doubled or more, and electric went up hugely.
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