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Is a "boiler" the same as a hot water heater? Or is this a combination furnace for radiators and hot water? I'm confused by the British terms and searching arou

• robin_reala 12y ago
  It supplies the central heating and hot water for sinks. Britain generally doesn’t get hot enough to require air conditioning and houses aren’t built with it even now, so there’s no temperature regulation through that. Boilers are nearly always gas powered (electrical systems are called ‘immersion heaters’). Old boilers fed a hot water tank in the loft, but newer ones usually heat water as required.
• DanBC 12y ago
  The photo on the OP shows a "combi boiler". This supplies hot water on demand for faucets and for heating radiators. The temperature of the hot water and the radiators are set separately.