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Oil Boiler Isolation Switch.

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Evenin' All,


Regarding an external ground sited domestic oil fired boiler for heating and hot water that has an internal switched fused connection unit nearby inside the house, what regulations will require an external electrical isolator adjacent to the oil boiler? You know the sort of thing, a double pole rotary isolator. 


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    If you know you are going to get up and shower at a specific time and you have a combi boiler that preheats in anticipation of you turning the tap on it will avoid you sending a lot of good clean drinking water to waste.


    I have worked for people who have water meters and they run the cold water off into buckets whilst they are waiting for their combi boilers to heat in the mornings and have numerous buckets of water stored around their homes for cleaning and watering plants etc.


    If you want to save money and polar bears fit a timer to your combi boiler.


    The boiler in the original discussion actually has heated water stored within it and isn’t actually a combi boiler as most people know them, it will keep firing 24/7 to stay hot rather than just heating when a tap is turned on.


     Andy Betteridge
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    If you know you are going to get up and shower at a specific time and you have a combi boiler that preheats in anticipation of you turning the tap on it will avoid you sending a lot of good clean drinking water to waste.


    I have worked for people who have water meters and they run the cold water off into buckets whilst they are waiting for their combi boilers to heat in the mornings and have numerous buckets of water stored around their homes for cleaning and watering plants etc.


    If you want to save money and polar bears fit a timer to your combi boiler.


    The boiler in the original discussion actually has heated water stored within it and isn’t actually a combi boiler as most people know them, it will keep firing 24/7 to stay hot rather than just heating when a tap is turned on.


     Andy Betteridge
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