Hi,
Just moved into a house from a flat and I have a couple of queries.
We have a Worcester gas fired boiler - Greenstar Ri (in the kitchen on ground floor) and a megaflow (on the first floor) plus a small red tank that I do not know what it does.
Heating is set to off on the boiler, while water is set to on (not on a timer, always on).
1) issue/question
I noticed that often the gas fired boiler is turned on, and it would seem to happen when using the hot water eg to do the dishes.
Does it mean as soon as I use some water, the megaflow gets the boiler fired up to replace the water used? Is that efficient from an energy perspective? I.e. I might use the hot water only many hours later..
1) solution
I assume a way to deal with that is that I could just set a timer for the water on the boiler (eg only in the am or at night when the Energy is cheaper), though that would mean we might use the whole hot water in the tank and run out. Would that mean no hot water, or hot water but through boiler (so less pressure)?
2) issue/question
even if the heating is off, I noticed that both the radiator (tower rail) in the bathroom and the radiator in the main entrance (possibly on the way up to the megaflow from the boiler) get warm. Is it just that they are both in the way, so rather than having a pipe run directly from to the boiler to the megaflow, it runs through these 2 radiators?
2) solution
Is the solution to just turn off these two radiators with their valve when not hot enough? So that even if the water flows to the megaflow, it still doesn’t go through them?
Thanks for your help!!
Just moved into a house from a flat and I have a couple of queries.
We have a Worcester gas fired boiler - Greenstar Ri (in the kitchen on ground floor) and a megaflow (on the first floor) plus a small red tank that I do not know what it does.
Heating is set to off on the boiler, while water is set to on (not on a timer, always on).
1) issue/question
I noticed that often the gas fired boiler is turned on, and it would seem to happen when using the hot water eg to do the dishes.
Does it mean as soon as I use some water, the megaflow gets the boiler fired up to replace the water used? Is that efficient from an energy perspective? I.e. I might use the hot water only many hours later..
1) solution
I assume a way to deal with that is that I could just set a timer for the water on the boiler (eg only in the am or at night when the Energy is cheaper), though that would mean we might use the whole hot water in the tank and run out. Would that mean no hot water, or hot water but through boiler (so less pressure)?
2) issue/question
even if the heating is off, I noticed that both the radiator (tower rail) in the bathroom and the radiator in the main entrance (possibly on the way up to the megaflow from the boiler) get warm. Is it just that they are both in the way, so rather than having a pipe run directly from to the boiler to the megaflow, it runs through these 2 radiators?
2) solution
Is the solution to just turn off these two radiators with their valve when not hot enough? So that even if the water flows to the megaflow, it still doesn’t go through them?
Thanks for your help!!