Teenagers and the emersion heater!

seek2c

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Mankysteve

I think people would be more interested in a immersion heater timer that tamper proof tbh.


£30 a lot for a gizmo that basically an oven timer.

MX5huggy

Why not go one better and have a timer that turns it off after an amount of time and a system that knows when the tank is hot and turns it off as well.

Available from all good plumbing merchants.

seek2c

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toofy

I could be doing with a timer on my shower, to stop the water!...when my teenage son gets in, he doesn't seem to know when to come out, and it drives me nuts as he has then used up all, or nearly all of the hot water before anyone else gets showered...any ideas to contend with that?..I would gladly pay £30 for a device that would ensure he gets out of shower in 10 minutes rather than the current 30!!

27col

Even if the immersion heater is left switched on all the time it does not matter. The thermostat will switch it off when the tank has reached the required temperature. The only thing that needs to be looked at is to ensure that the tank is extremely well insulated. This is always the case when the tank has a sprayed on foam insulation layer. If the tank has a separate insulating jacket then the heat losses will be a bit higher. With a loose jacket it should be well wrapped and secured such that a minimum of heat escapes. Leaving the tank powered at all times means that there is always ample hot water available.
I am not sure how it came about that people think that because the power is on to the tank, it is using energy. The whole purpose of the thermostat is to ensure that the power is switched off once the water is at the required temperature. It seems that people do not know how the immersion heater and its associated thermostat are working together to supply a useful amount of ready to use hot water.

pollys

toofy wrote: »

I could be doing with a timer on my shower, to stop the water!...when my teenage son gets in, he doesn't seem to know when to come out, and it drives me nuts as he has then used up all, or nearly all of the hot water before anyone else gets showered...any ideas to contend with that?..I would gladly pay £30 for a device that would ensure he gets out of shower in 10 minutes rather than the current 30!!

Same problem here toofy, except I've got 3 teenagers!!

Pollys x

roses

Either invest in a combi boiler or buy one of those push button switches so it can only be on for 1 hour at a time

amcluesent

Simply excess note time in shower and deduct penalty from any allowance paid to the yoofs.

dizziblonde

We used to have great bad plumbing in our student house - you turned the kitchen taps on and it destroyed the shower temperature... so you could flush anyone out of the shower by either turning the hot or cold tap on in the kitchen and burning their behind or freezing it accordingly. I regularly "accidentally" timed washing up the dishes to evict the resident shower hog after an hour in the bathroom!

missile

dizziblonde wrote: »

We used to have great bad plumbing in our student house - you turned the kitchen taps on and it destroyed the shower temperature... so you could flush anyone out of the shower by either turning the hot or cold tap on in the kitchen and burning their behind or freezing it accordingly. I regularly "accidentally" timed washing up the dishes to evict the resident shower hog after an hour in the bathroom!

Flushing the toilet has the same effect in our house :rotfl: