Hot water cylinder - no thermostat

muckwarrior

Have just got the heating system replaced in a house we bought recently, including new water cylinder. Long story short... The plumber has turned out to be absolutely terrible.

Latest thing I've noticed is that there's no thermostat on the cylinder. Is there any valid reason for this? To be honest I'm not sure if there was one on the old cylinder.

Asking before I challenge him on it as he's tried to sell me a bullshit excuse on all the other screw-ups he made.

muckwarrior

Reply from plumber:

"And new boiler don’t heat above 70/80 degrees (80 at max it won’t be up that ) so cylinder heat to 60-80 degrees so it’s not really need"

The Continental Op

Thats all well and good has the plumber put anti scald mixing valves on every hot tap? What happens if a child or old person puts their hands under the hot tap with water coming out at 80 degrees?

muckwarrior

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119703385#Comment_119703385

Exactly. I've told him I want one fitted.

The Continental Op

To avoid confusion when I said on every hot tap I should have said to cover every hot tap because you really only need one thermostatic valve back near the tank.

Doolittle51

Do you have an option to heat the water without heating the radiators?

There should be a thermostat on the tank and an automatic valve to isolate the tank once it's up to temperature. 65 degrees is more than adequate. Heating above that by relying on the boiler thermostat is wasting energy & money.