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Hot water cylinder on all the time

  • 24-03-2013 4:51pm
    #1
    ObeyGiant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭


    Okay, I'm not proud of this. Feeling like a total newb with this problem. But I guess I am a newb, so I should embrace it.

    Anyway - I just bought a house in Marino at the beginning of the year. It's an old, old house (1920s), but it's been fitted with gfch. Which is nice. There's a really old timer in the kitchen that controls the heating of the radiators, but the hot water cylinder appears to be on a completely different circuit - and it's on all the time. Now, I'm sure it's not the electric immersion because we just got our first electricity bill (which was about right) and our first gas bill (:eek:).

    We've hunted around the house and can't find a separate thermostat for the hot water cylinder. There are valves aplenty running in and out of the tank in the hot press, but I haven't touched those (I'll happily flick any switch you put in front of me, but valves scare the crap out of me).

    So I was wondering if any boardsies could point me in a direction. Doesn't have to be the right direction - any direction will do. Or should I just get a heating engineer out to take a nosey?


Comments

  • #2
    Jonny1384
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Jonny1384


    Why do you want to turn you hot water off, surly it's no harm having hot water all the time. Mine is left on once I have the heating on.


  • #3
    Big C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Big C


    "There's a really old timer in the kitchen that controls the heating of the radiators, but the hot water cylinder appears to be on a completely different circuit - and it's on all the time. Now, I'm sure it's not the electric immersion because we just got our first electricity"

    the old timer is probably the mother in-law or else u bought a house with a setting tenent ?


  • #4
    ObeyGiant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭ObeyGiant


    Jonny1384 wrote: »
    Why do you want to turn you hot water off, surly it's no harm having hot water all the time. Mine is left on once I have the heating on.
    Having loads of hot water is lovely. Having an enormous heating bill isn't lovely :)


  • #5
    Robbie.G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭Robbie.G


    ObeyGiant wrote: »
    Having loads of hot water is lovely. Having an enormous heating bill isn't lovely :)
    Do you have hot water when the heating is off or is just when it's on.Post pic of timer controls and hot press and someone will be able to advise better


  • #6
    ObeyGiant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭ObeyGiant


    Robbie.G wrote: »
    Do you have hot water when the heating is off or is just when it's on.Post pic of timer controls and hot press and someone will be able to advise better
    Thanks Robbie - I'll grab some pictures now. I should have realised that asking people to diagnose this without pictures is like saying "I HAVE A RASH, SHOULD I BE WORRIED?" i.e. Not very useful.

    In answer to your question - I tested this by setting the timer to "off" for 24 hours and the hot water cylinder was still full of scalding hot water. (After the heating being off for 24 hours, the cylinder was the only hot thing in the house).


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