Hot water cylinder/ immersion heater

Hugbubble

gas4you wrote: »

From your post, I would say the bottom element has gone. This is the one that only comes on overnight on the E7 tariff, or whatever you may have.

Don't actually have an E7 tariff as the heaters are just convection, but I realise the system is the same

gas4you wrote: »

It could be worth just checking the overheat protection hasn't tripped. If so a 'red dot' would be sticking out and visible on the element head.

This could just be pressed back in to reset, but if it went again, then there would obviously be a fault elsewhere.

I don't remember seeing any red dot on the element head, but I will take a look when I get in tonight.

gas4you wrote: »

sadly though, Megaflo elements are around £70 each and may not be shelf stock in many places.

Typical!

gas4you wrote: »

Use the top element as the boost to give you about 1/3rd a cylinder of water to keep you going.

I flicked the boost switch this morning when realising the water was cold. I don't remember hearing it make any noise, but now I can't remember whether it did start to gurgle when it was switched on, or whether that was something else that made it make a noise! I guess I will find out later whether this, at least, is working when I get in and see if there is any warm at all

Thank you very much for your reply.