Gas for hot water

Hi All,

Looking for feed back on Gas Bottle for hot water, pro - cons all would be helpful..........

KR

BB

been told orange bottles, but that's what am using.

I changed from electric water heating to an instantaneous gas heater using bottled gas last year. I love the gas system and would never consider swapping back.

I decided to go for an automatic changeover valve that switches from one bottle to another. This works really well and seamlessly gives you a continuous supply of gas to the boiler. These changeover valves only work with Propane gas. Both Repsol (orange bottles) and CEPSA (grey bottles) do Propane bottles, so choose a supplier that has an outlet near to you.

If you go for a one bottle system without a changeover valve then there's a chance that you'll run out if gas whilst in the middle of taking a shower, which might result in a sense of humour failure!

Pete.

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the info, sounds positive........... would you share the approx cost to switch over to Gas and approx savings since from your Electric bills.

BB

Hi I have a gas water heater.open flued.please google open flued gas appliances you need to follow certain simple procedures to remain safe try and fit outside like I have not to close to windows and doors,had my moved outside after moving in to current house,don,t forget to fit a scale reducing cartridge or siliphos balls to incoming water supply

Big Bucket wrote:Hi Pete,

Thanks for the info, sounds positive........... would you share the approx cost to switch over to Gas and approx savings since from your Electric bills.

BB

The changeover was part of some other work we had done, but the gas boiler sells for just over €200 in Leroy Merlin.
We had the changeover done quite soon after buying the property, so don't really have a proper comparison of before and after costs.

For us the main advantage is hot water whenever we want it. If 4 people wanted to take showers before, the hot water would run out part way through and we'd have to wait for it to heat-up again. Now we get the hot water we need when we need it, without having the cost of heating water unnecessarily.

We also achieved a considerable space saving. The old 80L electric boiler was on the wall in a utility room and took-up a lot of space. The new boiler is in roughly the same place and is very slim, so we now have space to put a tumble drier on top of the washing machine in the same room.

Pete.

Hi is there a delivery service in Quesada for cepsa gas? Thanks