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Hi there. Looking for a bit of help please.
We have moved into a new house and inherited a gas immersion boiler (Vokera easi-heat plus) and a Gledhill ES Direct 150 Hot Water Cylinder.
Everything was working fine and then we got hit with a massive electricity bill. £117 for 7 weeks electricity and 2 of those weeks we were out of the country. That's for two people who are usually at work.
After chatting to a few people, they've said is your immersion heater on. It's a switch with an orange light on it. Sure enough, it was on. So turned that off. A day later we've got no hot water.
The central heating timer has been set to off as it's summer and don't need the heating on. So I've now set up a programme for the heating to come on from 7am to 8:30am. Which I thought would heat the radiators (if not up to temperature) and put some hot water in the tank. But the cylinder started whirring at 7am and stopped at 7:30. The radiators warmed up but no hot water.
From what I understand, the bottom, white off-peak connector on the cylinder is wired into the wall switch. but that also works the immersion heater in there too as it has the orange light on the switch??
But if I turn on, the on-peak connector, that will surely be even more expensive??
Surely there is a way for the cylinder to be heated as per the programme set on the central heating timer?
Thanks.
We have moved into a new house and inherited a gas immersion boiler (Vokera easi-heat plus) and a Gledhill ES Direct 150 Hot Water Cylinder.
Everything was working fine and then we got hit with a massive electricity bill. £117 for 7 weeks electricity and 2 of those weeks we were out of the country. That's for two people who are usually at work.
After chatting to a few people, they've said is your immersion heater on. It's a switch with an orange light on it. Sure enough, it was on. So turned that off. A day later we've got no hot water.
The central heating timer has been set to off as it's summer and don't need the heating on. So I've now set up a programme for the heating to come on from 7am to 8:30am. Which I thought would heat the radiators (if not up to temperature) and put some hot water in the tank. But the cylinder started whirring at 7am and stopped at 7:30. The radiators warmed up but no hot water.
From what I understand, the bottom, white off-peak connector on the cylinder is wired into the wall switch. but that also works the immersion heater in there too as it has the orange light on the switch??
But if I turn on, the on-peak connector, that will surely be even more expensive??
Surely there is a way for the cylinder to be heated as per the programme set on the central heating timer?
Thanks.