Recent content by grayham

The convenience factor is indeed a big deal, but personally I think financially it can make good sense too, if you factor in the increase in value of the property from having GCH. I recently had my house converted from a coal powered system to gas. We're now looking to move on pretty soon, and...

Hi there, we've fairly recently moved into a house, and stripped the wallpaper off, along with a fair bit of plaster. We had the whole place replastered (to varying depths, but mostly just skimmed), which finished about 4 weeks ago. Our original intention was to do all of the decorating...

Thanks all - really appreciate the info (and effort of those involved). It is now wired up as in the diagram above, and appears to be functioning correctly. I guess (since I have a modern stat in there now) it is now extra-double protected against boiling, with two thermal cut-outs as well as...

Hi again - just to follow up - all working fine now. Weirdest thing, got home on Friday evening, got the multimeter out and started fiddling around. The round grey component (presumably a thermal cutout device, which I assumed had failed) has connection between its terminals. Also checked the...

That'd be great - thanks Tony.

Yeah, I think I'll try it this evening. I can easily check whether the thermostat is working properly (should be - it's new, and according to the manufacturer's spec it has a secondary safety cutout which should be plenty safe) by simply running the heater until the water's over 40C, then...

Hi Tony, Got home pretty late last night, and quickly rewired the immersion as you suggested. Got up this morning and found that it hadn't worked at all - no power had got through to the heater at all. The stat is new and was definitely working last time I waved a multimeter at it, so the...

Hi again Tony! Cool - have you installed many gas <-> solid linked systems before then? I'm based in Chalgrove (due south of Jcn 7, M40). We're not definitely going to get it done this autumn/winter, but one of the factors governing that decision is how much it would cost, so we could do...

Hi there, I've recently moved into a house in Oxfordshire which has a solid fuel (multi-fuel stove with back boiler) central heating / DHW system (with immersion heater for DHW in the summer). We only moved in this spring, so have yet to establish how effective / useable the current system...

Hi, thanks for the replies. Sorry for my ignorance, but if the element itself had corroded and shorted, wouldn't that have led to (a) poor (if any) water heating performance, and (b) likely higher current that would trip the circuit? Also, Tony, I understand that a simpler wiring arrangement...

Hi all, wonder if anyone can help? A few weeks ago I managed to leave our immersion heater one all night (thought I switched it off, but assume I must have switched it just as the timer was switching somehow... anyway...). Woke at 2am to hear it boiling away. As bad luck would have it, the...