Pick what you’d move to gas. You get the monthly cost both ways, the load that comes off your inverter and how long a 9 kg cylinder lasts, worked out from today’s prices, which you can change.
People at home
Assumes 1 shower of 7 minutes per person a day, 1 hour of cooking and, in winter, 3 hours of heating. Change all of it in the full calculator.
A 150-litre tank sits in the roof, heated around the clock so it’s ready when you are. A gas geyser has no tank: open a hot tap and it heats only the water that runs through it, then switches itself off.
Electric storage geyser
Keeps 150 L at 60 °C day and night. Loses about 2 kWh a day through the tank walls, even when nobody showers.
Gas geyser
Lights when the hot tap opens, goes out when it closes. No tank, so nothing to keep hot and nothing to lose.
Gas water heaters are installed outdoors or with a flue, by a registered gas installer who issues a Certificate of Conformity.
Fig 1Inside a gas geyserSlide to open the taptap closed · pilot-free, no gas burning
closed14 L/min
Burner: the flame grows with the flowWater moving through the coilTwo D cells make the spark, no plug neededA Totai 12 L gas geyser with its front cover off. Open a hot tap and the moving water lifts a diaphragm in the water valve; from 2.5 L/min it pushes the gas valve open and the two D cells fire the spark. The burner then heats only the water running through the copper coil, by 25 °C at up to 12 L/min (about 21 kW); past that the water comes out cooler. Close the tap and the flame goes out. Nothing is kept hot while you wait.
Seven ways Totairuns a home.
From the geyser on the outside wall to the potjie on a boiling table at a wedding: every range tested to SANS and LPGSA standards, with spares and service behind it.
Our own Totai range for everyday gas, and two Italian names for the kitchen. The same call centre, spares department and repair workshop look after all three.
The gas solution.
Totai supplies gas appliances across five divisions: Gas, Style, Braai, Catering and Outdoor. Value for money, after-sales service and technical support, every product tested to SANS and LPGSA standards.
One service centre for Totai, Elba and Elica: a call centre, a spare parts department, our own repair workshop and authorised service centres across the country.
Log it
Call the service centre or send the form with your model and serial number.
We diagnose
A technician calls back, often sorting it on the phone.
Parts or repair
Spares from our own parts department, or a repair in our workshop.
Near you
Or an authorised service centre in your area does the work.