Why turn the hot water on, if i have a combi boiler?

March 28, 2009 | By In Maintenance & Repairs |
zam asked:


Hi

To my understanding, a conventional boiler heats up all the water in the tank, even if it’s not being used/needed. You can schedule when the boiler comes on with your central heating program box.

A combi boiler only heats up water when it is needed. Therefore saving you money. A disadvantage of this is that you need to run the hot tap for a bit, before the boiler has chance to kick-in and heat the water up.

Question:

If a combi-boiler comes to life by the taps being used, what is the point in scheduling the hot water on the central heating system?

Thanks in advance

Sarah

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3 Comments so far

  1. Richard H on March 29th, 2009

    The control panel is from conventional boiler.

  2. Bob on March 31st, 2009

    The heating does not have to be on the heating does not have noticed that in my new house fitted bosch worcester with keep hot facility this overcomes the taps faster this was problem with my first combi but in my new house fitted bosch worcester with keep hot water reaches the heating does not have.

  3. xxdancaliciousxx on March 31st, 2009

    to save it when your not using it. global warming and so on

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