The heat is on

[cia260895]

oh great, a chance to ask a heating engineer a question without  watching them making that noise by sucking air in through their teeth.

anyway...

any reason why we arent getting as much hot water as we used to - sometimes, in the evenings we are noticing that when you try to get a shower then the water can go cold. the timings for the hotwater havent changed/

it is a megaflo cylinder, with an ideal classic FF boiler.

 

TBC home time


oh and the clock is till ticking whilst i think about this

[sovietsong]

I rent so just ring up the landlord to get everything sorted. heating, electric, water, changing light bulbs, opening the curtains.  He's a good guy, always comes on a monday though when I'm at work and only the missus is in.... Weird

[EvilPie]

Put mine on yesterday for the first time.  Works fine, but didn't realise I'd need a PhD to be able to fathom out the control panel and the instruction manual that goes with it.  Got to be the least intuitive thermostat/timer control I've ever seen.  It's a Glow-worm one for anyone who has had the pleasure.  Once I sussed it though, it works well, and the house is toasty.

lol @ glow-worm wd on sussing it

I have got a wireless combined time clock and thermostat and i'm buggered if i can set it up properly even after 5 years with the thing,main switch on boiler FTW

Mine's the wireless combined one.  Completely threw me to start with, but with dogged determination, a bottle of beer, and the instructions (which sound as though they've been translated into English on babelfish), I managed to work it out. 

It's actually more like climate control for the house, rather than the way normal central heating controllers work (well, all the ones I've ever seen in the past).  Set the temperature for the 'comfortable' setting, and then programme when you want the comfortable setting to kick in.  There's no button to whack the heating on for an hour quickly or anything either.  Glad it's not just me that find them confusing .

I frigging hate em all
poxy things

I've got one and it's the absolute nuts.

Set the temp at 6 different times throughout every day and totally separate for all 7 days of the week.

The house is kept at a constant 16 degrees then just warms up when I need it to so it's really efficient.

Holiday functions, party functions, going out functions, the lot and all very straight forward.

They aren't all bad.

[roscopiko]

oh great, a chance to ask a heating engineer a question without  watching them making that noise by sucking air in through their teeth.

anyway...

any reason why we arent getting as much hot water as we used to - sometimes, in the evenings we are noticing that when you try to get a shower then the water can go cold. the timings for the hotwater havent changed/

it is a megaflo cylinder, with an ideal classic FF boiler.

 

TBC home time


oh and the clock is till ticking whilst i think about this

Assuming you have the heating and water combined under 1 setting?  Now its cold and the central heating is actually coming on there is less time to heat your water = less hot water?

[cia260895]

oh great, a chance to ask a heating engineer a question without  watching them making that noise by sucking air in through their teeth.

anyway...

any reason why we arent getting as much hot water as we used to - sometimes, in the evenings we are noticing that when you try to get a shower then the water can go cold. the timings for the hotwater havent changed/

it is a megaflo cylinder, with an ideal classic FF boiler.

 

TBC home time


oh and the clock is till ticking whilst i think about this

Assuming you have the heating and water combined under 1 setting?  Now its cold and the central heating is actually coming on there is less time to heat your water = less hot water?

should only takeabout an hour to eat up the megaflo,what size is it?

if your settings havent changed it could be a couple of things 1st thing I'd try is to put the hot water on and feel the pipework going to the cylinder it should be as hot as the heating pipes,if it isnt there should be a little lever on the motorised valve that allows the water through the cylinder slide this over until it locks into place,you should then be able to tell if the valve is working properly

[lazaroonie]

oh great, a chance to ask a heating engineer a question without  watching them making that noise by sucking air in through their teeth.

anyway...

any reason why we arent getting as much hot water as we used to - sometimes, in the evenings we are noticing that when you try to get a shower then the water can go cold. the timings for the hotwater havent changed/

it is a megaflo cylinder, with an ideal classic FF boiler.

 

TBC home time


oh and the clock is till ticking whilst i think about this

Assuming you have the heating and water combined under 1 setting?  Now its cold and the central heating is actually coming on there is less time to heat your water = less hot water?

should only takeabout an hour to eat up the megaflo,what size is it?

if your settings havent changed it could be a couple of things 1st thing I'd try is to put the hot water on and feel the pipework going to the cylinder it should be as hot as the heating pipes,if it isnt there should be a little lever on the motorised valve that allows the water through the cylinder slide this over until it locks into place,you should then be able to tell if the valve is working properly

what size is it ? erm, dont really know- about 5 foot ?

i know the motorised switch you are talking about - that failed on our old system, but in the other way - we had plenty of hot water, but no heating....good idea i will try that.

[cia260895]

oh great, a chance to ask a heating engineer a question without  watching them making that noise by sucking air in through their teeth.

anyway...

any reason why we arent getting as much hot water as we used to - sometimes, in the evenings we are noticing that when you try to get a shower then the water can go cold. the timings for the hotwater havent changed/

it is a megaflo cylinder, with an ideal classic FF boiler.

 

TBC home time


oh and the clock is till ticking whilst i think about this

Assuming you have the heating and water combined under 1 setting?  Now its cold and the central heating is actually coming on there is less time to heat your water = less hot water?

should only takeabout an hour to eat up the megaflo,what size is it?

if your settings havent changed it could be a couple of things 1st thing I'd try is to put the hot water on and feel the pipework going to the cylinder it should be as hot as the heating pipes,if it isnt there should be a little lever on the motorised valve that allows the water through the cylinder slide this over until it locks into place,you should then be able to tell if the valve is working properly

what size is it ? erm, dont really know- about 5 foot ?

i know the motorised switch you are talking about - that failed on our old system, but in the other way - we had plenty of hot water, but no heating....good idea i will try that.

probs a    CL170 or DD250  how many of you in the house?

[Claw75]

there should be a knob you twist to turn it on

0r  a slot  

can't see anything - possibly out of sight behind the kitchen cupboards? or i could be looking at the completely wrong thing, of course.

[cia260895]

there should be a knob you twist to turn it on

0r  a slot  

can't see anything - possibly out of sight behind the kitchen cupboards? or i could be looking at the completely wrong thing, of course.

should be directly under the boiler

www.cubralco.com/images/flexible-connectors.jpg

[bolt pp]

Move to Barbados imo

[cia260895]

Move to Barbados imo

appealing

[Ironside]

if you live in scotland you dont have this problem

[Claw75]

there should be a knob you twist to turn it on

0r  a slot  

can't see anything - possibly out of sight behind the kitchen cupboards? or i could be looking at the completely wrong thing, of course.

should be directly under the boiler

www.cubralco.com/images/flexible-connectors.jpg

there are no flexible hoses coming out of the boiler, just copper pipes, which then disappear behind the units

[cia260895]

there should be a knob you twist to turn it on

0r  a slot  

can't see anything - possibly out of sight behind the kitchen cupboards? or i could be looking at the completely wrong thing, of course.

should be directly under the boiler

www.cubralco.com/images/flexible-connectors.jpg

there are no flexible hoses coming out of the boiler, just copper pipes, which then disappear behind the units

have a look in the cupboards below it

you dont have a big white key for filling the heating do you?

[Claw75]

there should be a knob you twist to turn it on

0r  a slot  

can't see anything - possibly out of sight behind the kitchen cupboards? or i could be looking at the completely wrong thing, of course.

should be directly under the boiler

www.cubralco.com/images/flexible-connectors.jpg

there are no flexible hoses coming out of the boiler, just copper pipes, which then disappear behind the units

have a look in the cupboards below it

you dont have a big white key for filling the heating do you?

don't think so. will have a poke about