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Brill. Thanks again for the reassurance! I'll try a second opinion and see how I go!

Thanks all. I've had a sparky out today who has looked at the frost stat and said that because there's a frost stat installed, fitting a pipe stat won't make any difference - the rads in the house will still come on whenever the garage temp dips below 5deg and stay on until it rises above 5deg...

This definitely has a mid position, ("M") which is indicated when both the CH & HW are on. We have three options - CH only, HW only or CH & HW.

I see. That's a shame. For info, here's a pic of the valve - you can see the black pin / lever I'm referring to, this moves to indicate the current setting. Thanks again for your help! _

Hmm. Feel I might have confused matters by referring to a "lever"... I don't propose altering the valve from "auto" to manual. It would be left on auto but, as the pin on the valve that moves between the three settings (HW /CH / central (ie both)) "sits" in the last known location until told...

Sorry, I'm undoubtedly being really thick but I can't get my head round this bit ... If there are three options (HWonly CH only or both) and it is set to CH only, as currently, this explains why the radiators are getting hot. If it is set to HW only, wouldnt this heat only the water in the tank...

Hello wise ones - can you offer any advice please? We've recently moved into a house with a gravity fed system and boiler located in the garage. We've found that over the last few nights the central heating is coming on in the middle of the night, notwithstanding that the timer on the controls...

Agreed - it had crossed my mind that the thermostatic shower cartridges might be the cause of the problem - when the cylinder thermostat is set to a suitable temperature the showers are simply too cold. Only when turned to their highest temperature are they even bearable, which can't be right.

Thanks - will do - need to buy a suitable thermometer to test it!

Thanks John, I'll try that. My only reservation is that if heat was leaking from the central heating into the hot water, wouldn't this have generated hot water after I emptied the cylinder of all of the hot water? Instead, between 8am (after I'd emptied the cylinder) and midday - with the hot...

Yes, we've bought the property so it's our problem to solve sadly!! I'm an office worker and although I understand the basics of how the system works this is well outside my comfort zone!! You suggest a wiring fault Agile - do you mean the electric wiring of the thermostat? Interestingly...

Hello - we've recently moved house and are having a few issues with the hot water system in the new house.Any advice or suggestions would be very gratefully received!! By way of background, the central heating is served by a Potterton Suprima condensing boiler (about 4 years old we...