Last night, I knocked off our immersion at the fuseboard. It was either that, or try to fight the airing cupboard door, which was installed handle-less by the last owner, as it binds BADLY on the carpet, with my kids asleep. No contest.
The house is a 50's wimpey concrete job, rewired when council in 1997. Still got the stickers on it.
Now, I was mildly surprised when running a bath for the kids tonight that the bathwater wasn't hugely warm. Yes, the immersion is off. However, the GCH should be dealing with the tank. Why is the house at 17.5 degrees, when the timed setpoint is 19? Ah, the controller is dead.
The fuseboard has the following labels on the switches:
Ring main
Upstairs Lights
Downstairs Lights
Shower
Cooker
Water Heater.
and the main switch. All RCB.
Turned the immersion switch back on, the controls light up, 3 port valve whines and boiler fires.
Is this anything to be mildly alarmed about? The controls/boiler seem to run off a 3amp FCU in the airing cupboard, but this seems to pull power from the immersion circuit wiring.
I'm wondering now if the SELV extractor in the bathroom is run from the lighting circuit as well...it looked about right from the loft..
I can see me doing a little re-labelling..ha..
The house is a 50's wimpey concrete job, rewired when council in 1997. Still got the stickers on it.
Now, I was mildly surprised when running a bath for the kids tonight that the bathwater wasn't hugely warm. Yes, the immersion is off. However, the GCH should be dealing with the tank. Why is the house at 17.5 degrees, when the timed setpoint is 19? Ah, the controller is dead.
The fuseboard has the following labels on the switches:
Ring main
Upstairs Lights
Downstairs Lights
Shower
Cooker
Water Heater.
and the main switch. All RCB.
Turned the immersion switch back on, the controls light up, 3 port valve whines and boiler fires.
Is this anything to be mildly alarmed about? The controls/boiler seem to run off a 3amp FCU in the airing cupboard, but this seems to pull power from the immersion circuit wiring.
I'm wondering now if the SELV extractor in the bathroom is run from the lighting circuit as well...it looked about right from the loft..
I can see me doing a little re-labelling..ha..