Slightly apropos savings on water heating - I was quite taken with the idea of having an EBAC washer, promoted as British made and also with hot and cold fill. In theory this means using water you have already paid to heat, rather than letting the washer do it with direct electric. Sounds smart.
However - it typically takes ages to get the water running hot. By which time your washer will have already taken in its required 15 litres or whatever, and will have to heat it anyway. In the end we got a Bosch cold fill only.
After the plumbers had finished they told me I could have had a system in which the hot taps are all on a circuit in which hot water constantly runs so that when you use a tap or shower it runs hot almost immediately. Apparently this is what they put in hotels now. I must say though that the idea of keeping that 50 metres or whatever of pipe full of hot flowing water all the time doesn't appeal.
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