Water not heating up in apartment

Melisandre121

When we put the emersion on in our apartment it only heats up to lukewarm, no matter how long we leave it, which is really annoying. We rent through an agency, should we contact them? Is it up to them to look into this for us?

Del2005

Yes

The_Valeyard

Check if you have a thermostat for it, could be turned down low.

TheDoc

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Check if you have a thermostat for it, could be turned down low.

Good shout.

When I moved into the current house I'm in, couldn't for the life me of figure out how to get the water hot past luke warm. There was no old school immersion.

turned out I had to set a timer for the general heating, which in turn heats up the water. So I've that on a timer for the early mornings, and it gives hot water for the day.

But also there was a thermostat thing in the hotpress, that when I fiddled with a little sorted it out.

Made me wish I didn't moan when my ma used to ask me to flick on the immersion, and I actually asked what the hell it was an how it worked

Melisandre121

TheDoc wrote: »

Good shout.

When I moved into the current house I'm in, couldn't for the life me of figure out how to get the water hot past luke warm. There was no old school immersion.

turned out I had to set a timer for the general heating, which in turn heats up the water. So I've that on a timer for the early mornings, and it gives hot water for the day.

But also there was a thermostat thing in the hotpress, that when I fiddled with a little sorted it out.

Made me wish I didn't moan when my ma used to ask me to flick on the immersion, and I actually asked what the hell it was an how it worked

Perfect, I'll check this out!

dori_dormer

is it a dual element tank? If so it could just be on sink, and only the small element heating the top half of the tank, if it's on bath, the larger element at the bottom will heat the whole tank. Also the large element could be broken.