Off peak/stored heat tariff doesn't come on

[EFLImpudence]

Turns out there was no fuse in the socket for the water heater element.

Sockets don't have fuses.

If you mean a plug, water heaters - if you mean an immersion heater - should not be supplied through a plug.
You should wonder why it was removed.

No one is really sure why the heaters didn't work because of a fuse in the water tank but..

If you mean another type of fuse then that is indeed a puzzle and should be investigated.

problem solved!

Perhaps not.


Still - as long as it works - nothing else matters, does it?

 

[DaveHerns]

Unqualified landlords doing repairs to electrics in rented properties doesn't sound too clever...

 

[winston1]

Unqualified landlords doing repairs to electrics in rented properties doesn't sound too clever...

Electricians who can't find a missing fuse is not too clever either...

 

[Kizzmish]

It's not a socket or a plug... I don't know. It's the switch on the wall. It has a bit that pops out and a fuse goes in it. (Like I said, I have no knowledge!)

Landlord says he's going to get the Electrician around again any way to check everything over again and make sure nothing else has gone awry.

But yes, from my perspective, it works so I'm happy. No more day rate hot water and the heaters will work in the winter so we won't have to run an expensive oil filled radiator on day rate.

 

[JohnD]

It's not a socket or a plug... I don't know. It's the switch on the wall. It has a bit that pops out and a fuse goes in it.

FCU
Fused Connection Unit
But it is not correct for an immersion heater or a storage heater, because they should be on a dedicated radial circuit where the correct fuse or MCB is in the CU.
https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MKK1040.html
https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/CB4827.html

It will be interesting to know if the landlord's tinkering has caused the storage heaters and lower immersion heater to come on at the correct timed, off-peak periods, or if they are now on 24 hours a day and costing you a fortune.