As already stated in my previous post, I live in a house of disaster without a lot of money for DIY. Currently I am using an electric immersion heater for hot water because the hot water associated with our central heating no longer seems to work.
What I am wondering is whether it may be a very simple problem to fix, which we have been ignoring because we don't have the money to fix it. We live in a hard water area and so limescale may be part of the problem. I wondered if anyone could give me advice about what I could try to fix it.
The central heating boiler is in an outside cupboard and is more than 20 years old. It seems to heat the house fine, as long as both the central heating and hot water are switched to on. If only the central heating is switched on, it doesn't heat up at all.
The water worked fine until it didn't. We have tried putting up the temperature on the boiler... all that does is to look fit to melt the radiators without getting the hot water temperature to anything above slightly less than icy.
I read some pretty alarming stuff about old thermostats in hot water tanks breaking down in a default ON situation and boiling the contents of the tank... that's why I thought I ought to get some advice. It hasn't metled *yet*. Should I be checking in the loft to see if the hot water tank is getting hot... I wonder? I don't know why that didn't occur to me until now.
My husband is actually pretty good at DIY and at not touching things it would be dangerous to touch... and I am saving up to get in a professional.
~Fee~
What I am wondering is whether it may be a very simple problem to fix, which we have been ignoring because we don't have the money to fix it. We live in a hard water area and so limescale may be part of the problem. I wondered if anyone could give me advice about what I could try to fix it.
The central heating boiler is in an outside cupboard and is more than 20 years old. It seems to heat the house fine, as long as both the central heating and hot water are switched to on. If only the central heating is switched on, it doesn't heat up at all.
The water worked fine until it didn't. We have tried putting up the temperature on the boiler... all that does is to look fit to melt the radiators without getting the hot water temperature to anything above slightly less than icy.
I read some pretty alarming stuff about old thermostats in hot water tanks breaking down in a default ON situation and boiling the contents of the tank... that's why I thought I ought to get some advice. It hasn't metled *yet*. Should I be checking in the loft to see if the hot water tank is getting hot... I wonder? I don't know why that didn't occur to me until now.
My husband is actually pretty good at DIY and at not touching things it would be dangerous to touch... and I am saving up to get in a professional.
~Fee~