Default How to turn the temperature of water down?

[blackcloud]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how I can turn the temperature down from the tap water.

I have turned down the dial on this picture from 4 bars to 1 bar but it made no difference to how hot the water was.

http://s21.postimg.org/7e5lzd4sn/Photo0011.jpg

the only other thing is this

http://s21.postimg.org/b0g0pr0jr/Photo0012.jpg

which is a temperature dial which is on 24c but I wont want to turn temperature down in the house though.

Any ideas, thanks in advance

 

[hazetimesfive]

you cannot

 

[blackcloud]

So there is no way to turn the temperature of the water down that comes out of the tap?

 

[hazetimesfive]

There is always a way, but it all depends on how much money you are happy to spend.

 

[TCCHeating]

Get a plumber to fit a thermostatic blending valve to the hot water pipe from the boiler.

 

[Doggit]

Picture 2 shows the room thermostat and the time programmer - and the thermostat should be set to about 21 or 22C. The boiler should be at 1.5 bar pressure. normally the blow off valve will operate if the pressure gets above 3 bar, so if it's been at 4 bar, you may have a problem with the boiler.

How does the water get heated in the summer when the radiators aren't on.

Do you have a hot water tank in the cupboard, and is it fed by the boiler, or an electric immersion heater - send us a picture. If it's heated by an electric immersion heater, then there'll be a thermostat where the cable goes into the tank. And if there's a thermostat on the side of the hpt water tank, then you can turn down the water there.

But if the tanks heated from the boiler, but there's no tank thermostat, then you're either going to get one fitted - which would also very likely require a new 3 port valve and programmer, or you do the cheap option of fitting the thermostatic blending valve. The negative side of this, is that the boiler is on longer overheating the hot water tank.

More info needed.

 

[Steelmasons]

Picture 2 shows the room thermostat and the time programmer - and the thermostat should be set to about 21 or 22C. The boiler should be at 1.5 bar pressure. normally the blow off valve will operate if the pressure gets above 3 bar, so if it's been at 4 bar, you may have a problem with the boiler.

How does the water get heated in the summer when the radiators aren't on.

Do you have a hot water tank in the cupboard, and is it fed by the boiler, or an electric immersion heater - send us a picture. If it's heated by an electric immersion heater, then there'll be a thermostat where the cable goes into the tank. And if there's a thermostat on the side of the hpt water tank, then you can turn down the water there.

But if the tanks heated from the boiler, but there's no tank thermostat, then you're either going to get one fitted - which would also very likely require a new 3 port valve and programmer, or you do the cheap option of fitting the thermostatic blending valve. The negative side of this, is that the boiler is on longer overheating the hot water tank.

More info needed.

WTF are you on about???
This particular boiler has no provision for HW temp adjustment.
Room stat set temp is for end user to decide.

 

[hazetimesfive]

Also, I am pretty sure OP has just moved the red needle on the dial.

 

[blackcloud]

Thanks all,

boiler makes a loud humming noise? but is that normal with an old boiler?

Does the reading on the thermostat look ok to you on my boiler? It was just checked a month or so ago and the gas safety guy was happy with it. I didnt touch the red dial on the dial.

 

[hazetimesfive]

so how did you turn the bars down

 

[TCCHeating]

so how did you turn the bars down

I think op is referring to the bars printed around the temperature knob on the boiler

 

[hazetimesfive]

lol yes of course, how dense of me.

 

[Doggit]

Well done TCC, I woke at 6 this morning, realised what you meant, and felt a right idiot at the way I'd interpreted it. And Gaswiz, I don't think I mentioned anything about the hot water temperature being set on the boiler. If there's no thermostat on the hot water tank, then having the room stat set so high would overheat the hot water.

 

[TCCHeating]

Well done TCC,

Thanks

If there's no thermostat on the hot water tank, then having the room stat set so high would overheat the hot water.

It's a combi mate

But even if there was a hot water cylinder with no cylinder stat. Your logic is wrong! Room stat is nothing to do with how hot the water in the cylinder would get

 

[hazetimesfive]

Golden advice there doggit.