I know very little about central heating.
When I had the radiators on for testing today, there was noise from the hot water tank in the first floor. When I switched the heating off, if didn't appear to stop. So I checked the "lifestyle" control and ensure both water heating and radiator heating was off. I could "hear" that the boiler was off. The hot water tank was still making a noise like an electric immerser heater. There was a switch in the cupboard with the hot water tank with a wire connecting to top of tank, I learned from previous post that this is a "back up" should water cool down too much, so I switched that off. No difference, so I went to fuse box and switched off the fuse that said "immerse". That made no difference. I then noticed there was another device attached to the hot water tank, it looks like a thermostat of some sort, says "drayon" on it is white, with the scale 50 to 90 degress (I think if I remember correctly), so I turned this to the lowest it could go and the noise kept going on. There was a small gap around this thermostat so i could see a tiny bit inside the tank, the bit I saw was glowing bright orange.
I looked in the fuse box again, there is a switch which reads "heating"- i was tempted to throw that off, but thought i should ask here first.
Central heating engineer out earlier and said there was nothing at all wrong with water heating.
I am used to electricity water heating where you simply switch on and off as desired. What happened today irritated me, in that I felt I had no control over the water heating.
Someone explain....help....please
When I had the radiators on for testing today, there was noise from the hot water tank in the first floor. When I switched the heating off, if didn't appear to stop. So I checked the "lifestyle" control and ensure both water heating and radiator heating was off. I could "hear" that the boiler was off. The hot water tank was still making a noise like an electric immerser heater. There was a switch in the cupboard with the hot water tank with a wire connecting to top of tank, I learned from previous post that this is a "back up" should water cool down too much, so I switched that off. No difference, so I went to fuse box and switched off the fuse that said "immerse". That made no difference. I then noticed there was another device attached to the hot water tank, it looks like a thermostat of some sort, says "drayon" on it is white, with the scale 50 to 90 degress (I think if I remember correctly), so I turned this to the lowest it could go and the noise kept going on. There was a small gap around this thermostat so i could see a tiny bit inside the tank, the bit I saw was glowing bright orange.
I looked in the fuse box again, there is a switch which reads "heating"- i was tempted to throw that off, but thought i should ask here first.
Central heating engineer out earlier and said there was nothing at all wrong with water heating.
I am used to electricity water heating where you simply switch on and off as desired. What happened today irritated me, in that I felt I had no control over the water heating.
Someone explain....help....please
