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i'm hoping someone can offer me some advice with my central heating system. i've attached a picture of our airing cupboard. we have an old ideal boiler (not combi) downstairs with a thermostat in the hall
during the summer, we had the programmable timer set so that the heating was off and the hot water came on twice a day. this worked fine until we turned the hot water off for a week while we went on holiday. when we got back, we set the timer so the hot water came on twice a day as before, but the water refused to get hot. as a test, i set the hot water to constant and it still didn't get hot. the only way i could get hot water to work was by putting the heating on as well. it was almost like the water couldn't get hot on it's own and would only work if the heating and water were BOTH on at the same time. so we've been running with the heating is on constant (controlled by the thermostat downstairs) and the hot water comes on twice a day. this has been working ok, but yesterday the hot water stopped working again! even though the heating is still set to constant on the timer. i managed to fix this by turning off both hot water and heating on the timer, and switching the power off and back on to the small white box on top of the copper pipes in my picture. i then set the timer to heating constant and hot water twice a day again. it seems to be working ok at the moment, but does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions as to what's going on with the hot water?
thanks
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during the summer, we had the programmable timer set so that the heating was off and the hot water came on twice a day. this worked fine until we turned the hot water off for a week while we went on holiday. when we got back, we set the timer so the hot water came on twice a day as before, but the water refused to get hot. as a test, i set the hot water to constant and it still didn't get hot. the only way i could get hot water to work was by putting the heating on as well. it was almost like the water couldn't get hot on it's own and would only work if the heating and water were BOTH on at the same time. so we've been running with the heating is on constant (controlled by the thermostat downstairs) and the hot water comes on twice a day. this has been working ok, but yesterday the hot water stopped working again! even though the heating is still set to constant on the timer. i managed to fix this by turning off both hot water and heating on the timer, and switching the power off and back on to the small white box on top of the copper pipes in my picture. i then set the timer to heating constant and hot water twice a day again. it seems to be working ok at the moment, but does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions as to what's going on with the hot water?
thanks
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