Thanks very much everyone. The Hive is now set to 'fully pumped' and I'll have a look at the cylinder thermostat over the weekend and try and move it up a bit.
I'm very grateful to you all for your advice.
That's brilliant. Thanks so much to all of you for taking the time and giving such detailed advice. It's reassuring to know my Hive is now set to the correct setting for a pumped system and my HW will no longer have to come on with the CH.
I'll get someone in to investigate the boiler turning...
I'm sorry but I'm so confused. I presume I have a fully pumped gravity fed system then ?If it's a gravity system should I have left my Hive receiver on the blue setting for a gravity fed system. Someone said earlier it wasn't so I changed it.
Thanks Fixitflav. I have a water tank in the loft that supplies the bathroom. I don't think I have an expansion vessel (having googled what it looks like).
Thanks very much flameport and CBW.
Do I have a pumped system then? I'll change the Hive receiver to the green light setting so the CH and HW work completely separately.
Re. The grey satchwell, could I turn the dial down to reduce the water temperature or is that not advisable?
Re. The...
Hello and apologies in advance for stupid questions and long winded post. I have a Hive system, and when my CH comes on I have just found out my hot water automatically comes on with it. I am able to operate the hot water to come on independently too whereby the boiler fires up and only the...