Hello All,
Hope your all well as the winter chill starts to roll in.
I got a quick question about heating.
I moved into a new place and the system here is slightly different to what I had at our old place and since the owners are no longer in the country, getting ahold of them is proving to be a bit of a mission.
Anyhow, in the kitchen we have a control unit, 2 switches (timed, off, on) on the face along with one of those timers, where you can adjust the start/stop time @ 2 different times of the day.
Next to it, we have this gas fired boiler with the flame burning.
Up in the bathroom, we have this interesting collection of pipework to do it's thing, along with what I've learnt to be a control valve that directs water either to the central heating or the hot water, depending on what switches are manipulated - the thing is broken, so I manually have to slide the override towards the direction corresponding to the switches in the kitchen (but this thing should be fixed sometime, i've let the agent know).
So finally the question
The part which is bugging me is that in both the bathroom and the toilet there are radiators which are not actually attached to the central heating and they are for some reason attached to the hot water control.
So when ever the switch in the kitchen is set to 'on' or comes on during the 'timed' setting ... it heats up these 2 radiators ... how do I stop them from getting hot - simply turning them down to minimum on the heat control knob ... is that enough, or do i turn off the hot water supply to them by closing the other vavle?
The reason I ask is this, that I tend to leave the hot water switch = on ... so there is hot water when I need it as I can't figure out if the water is kept warm/hot in a tank somewhere when the control unit = off/timed, but I suspect that these little heaters in the bathrooms cool down which tells the boiler to fire up and use more gas, just to heat them.
Maybe I've answered my own question, but I am just throwing it out there to the experts!
Thanks
Rob[/b]
Hope your all well as the winter chill starts to roll in.
I got a quick question about heating.
I moved into a new place and the system here is slightly different to what I had at our old place and since the owners are no longer in the country, getting ahold of them is proving to be a bit of a mission.
Anyhow, in the kitchen we have a control unit, 2 switches (timed, off, on) on the face along with one of those timers, where you can adjust the start/stop time @ 2 different times of the day.
Next to it, we have this gas fired boiler with the flame burning.
Up in the bathroom, we have this interesting collection of pipework to do it's thing, along with what I've learnt to be a control valve that directs water either to the central heating or the hot water, depending on what switches are manipulated - the thing is broken, so I manually have to slide the override towards the direction corresponding to the switches in the kitchen (but this thing should be fixed sometime, i've let the agent know).
So finally the question
The part which is bugging me is that in both the bathroom and the toilet there are radiators which are not actually attached to the central heating and they are for some reason attached to the hot water control.
So when ever the switch in the kitchen is set to 'on' or comes on during the 'timed' setting ... it heats up these 2 radiators ... how do I stop them from getting hot - simply turning them down to minimum on the heat control knob ... is that enough, or do i turn off the hot water supply to them by closing the other vavle?
The reason I ask is this, that I tend to leave the hot water switch = on ... so there is hot water when I need it as I can't figure out if the water is kept warm/hot in a tank somewhere when the control unit = off/timed, but I suspect that these little heaters in the bathrooms cool down which tells the boiler to fire up and use more gas, just to heat them.
Maybe I've answered my own question, but I am just throwing it out there to the experts!
Thanks
Rob[/b]
