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Expensive to run, or to purchase?
With a combi boiler you always have a lag between turning on the tap and hot water appearing- unless you have a storage combi which keeps a small tank of water hot, ready for you to turn the tap on.
Seems a little profligate when you can just wait ~5 seconds for the water to come through hot though.
You can also get those hot water taps which have become all the range for the Clapham "big house and an Estonian nanny" set, which does away with the need for a kettle as they provide instant very hot water on demand.
With your heating system being electric I imagine that you set it to turn on overnight when electricity is cheap, it then heats up the tank and you use that stored hot water in the morning to shower with- is the problem that the water is going cold before you are finished, or that it is not warm enough?