Hot water boiler question

Two Professors

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #21

studio150 said:

These modern gadgets! bring back coal fires, and tin baths in the kitchen

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We still have coal fires and tin baths here,some think.

 

SIMMO SAYS

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #22

When I started with my dad in 1974 we came across loads of tin baths and outside toilets at the bottom of the garden.
I suddenly feel very old

 

dazzer6666

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #23

Guy who services my boiler offers loyalty points.....does that help ?

 

Weststander

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #24

Bozza, on a more interesting subject. Did you holiday in Florida again?

 

Thunder Bolt

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #25

The thermostat should work, but when they go, the water heats up to boiling point. It also depends on how well insulated the hot water tank is, as it will be heating the surrounding air, as well.

 

rogersix

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #26

SIMMO SAYS said:

When I started with my dad in 1974 we came across loads of tin baths and outside toilets at the bottom of the garden.
I suddenly feel very old

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you are very old

 

rogersix

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #27

Bozza said:

We've been away for three weeks (bad fan) and just came home today.

She who knows how the hot water and heater settings work (or so she thought) adjusted the hot water settings so that it was only being heated for 1 minute per day, for the simple reason of not spending money on heating water we'd not be using.

It transpired that she got it wrong, and the hot water has been heated for 5 1/2 hours each and every day for the past three weeks.

Is the boiler/cylinder thing likely to have some sort of settings or thermostat that mean when the water reaches a certain temperature, it will disengage, or will it have been going flat out for 5 1/2 hours each and every day.

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why do you think the 'stat broke when you weren't there to watch it work?
it's a bi-metallic strip! nowt to go wrong!

 

Wrong-Direction

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #28

rogersix said:

you are very old

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Wrong-Direction

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• #29

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #30

Bozza said:

We've been away for three weeks (bad fan) and just came home today.

She who knows how the hot water and heater settings work (or so she thought) adjusted the hot water settings so that it was only being heated for 1 minute per day, for the simple reason of not spending money on heating water we'd not be using.

It transpired that she got it wrong, and the hot water has been heated for 5 1/2 hours each and every day for the past three weeks.

Is the boiler/cylinder thing likely to have some sort of settings or thermostat that mean when the water reaches a certain temperature, it will disengage, or will it have been going flat out for 5 1/2 hours each and every day.

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Sounds like you need a new boiler.

The hot water heater should be fine, though.

 

WATFORD zero

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #31

I can't believe you've asked that question, on here


It's not as if the NSC plumbers division don't have a high enough post count as it is

 

BN9 BHA

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #32

Bozza said:

"Why didn't you just turn the hot water off?"

"I don't know how to."

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Get one of these installed

 

SIMMO SAYS

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #33

Wrong-Direction said:

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Sacked in the morning then

 

AmexRuislip

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #34

rogersix said:

you are very old

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Surely older than water?

 

SIMMO SAYS

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #35

bn9 bha said:

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Get one of these installed

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Do they still make them?

 

BN9 BHA

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #36

SIMMO SAYS said:

Do they still make them?

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Very popular with older people I'm told.
To be honest I wish all heating controllers were this simple, I often get asked if I can set up a very complicated heating programmer for a customer.
I don't actually know how some of them work myself.

 

Wozza

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #37

Icy Gull said:

Get Hive and you control the heating, hot water and lights if you buy them from Hive. Brilliant system if you spend any time away from home.

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Yeah, thought you'd be all over this, Bozza.

 

SIMMO SAYS

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #38

bn9 bha said:

Very popular with older people I'm told.
To be honest I wish all heating controllers were this simple, I often get asked if I can set up a very complicated heating programmer for a customer.
I don't actually know how some of them work myself.

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I know the feeling

 

btnbelle

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• Aug 25, 2017

• #39

Icy Gull said:

Get Hive and you control the heating, hot water and lights if you buy them from Hive. Brilliant system if you spend any time away from home.

Pretty sure the hot water would have turned itself off after reaching temperature though.

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After watching ITV's Tonight programme last night, seeing how hackers can hack your home through your wifi, next time you could come home to far worse trouble than "she who knows best" has achieved.

I hope you all had a lovely holiday.

 

Icy Gull

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• Aug 25, 2017

• #40

btnbelle said:

After watching ITV's Tonight programme last night, seeing how hackers can hack your home through your wifi, next time you could come home to far worse trouble than "she who knows best" has achieved.

I hope you all had a lovely holiday.

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What's the worst that could happen? They crank up my heating, or turn it off? House has a burglar alarm so they won't be accessing that through a router.