We had one when we moved in - half the closet was the hot water tank and there was a set of shelves above it. Shelves are still there, but a mini hot water tank for 3 adults and an infant wasn't going to fly. So combi-boiler in the kitchen and the washing machine is now in that space. Technically still an airing cupboard, but without any heat source or ventilation to actually dry things out.
We have the combi boiler in ours, when we moved in there was a hot water cylinder in there with the boiler on the back wall of the kitchen. When the extension was built the boiler had to go (or be left hanging in mid air) and the airing cupboard was the ideal place to put the replacement. There was all the necessary water pipes and electricity to it, the plumber just had to run a gas pipe and feed the exhaust through the roof. Plus it gave us a bit more cupboard space, the ironing board lives in there along with the clean towels. I discovered that copper evaporates in sunlight since the plumber put the old tank in the driveway to take away but it had vanished when he came to put it in his van.
Dual fuel towel rails exist, which is good enough - you can manage the programmable bit at the socket, which is what we've done. Then you just need to find a smart socket. I used this one, and it works well enough. Daily on/off timers, you can set it for dawn/dusk if you like, or just flick it on when you want and set a timer for it to go off.
It takes a lot longer here but that's probably as I'm at the end of a private road. It takes a few weeks for someone who actually had to visit me or one of my neighbours to get a message to the metal fairies so they can work their magic.
If you put anything metal out around here, except fridges & freezers, it tends to evaporate within an hour, I don't understand how they are so quick.
Presumably anyone who signed up for a fixed price deal in a panic recently won't see any benefit though (not us btw).
they stay but not the compressors in them.
If you put anything metal out around here, except fridges & freezers, it tends to evaporate within an hour, I don't understand how they are so quick.
Well I guess that's an option. It's only three weeks ago they suggested I go online and increase my direct debit; but how?
Ah, you were able to recover the coolant?
Sadly no. A random stripped the thing out without asking.
Probably best to phone them but i'd set a couple of hours aside for the phone queue wait (based on my experience with BG about 15 years ago)
Not that bothered I was just curious, I've observed before that British Gas's IT Dept is not the finest. I'm sure they will get round to it.
Just checked the smart meter and today we have used 14.48 KWh of Gas and 5.96KWh of electricity. There's only the two of us these days but it is a big house even though I have set radiators in unused rooms to 1.
Yeah electric heating will make a very big difference to the numbers.
