Immersion heater only heating up couple minutes worth of how water?

keystone

Canucklehead wrote: »

Hi:

You need to get someone in if you want hot water again.


GSR.

Agree. We aint going to solve this one from here.

Cheers

Lafleur_2

Thanks again Keystone, and to everyone who contributed!

It looks like earth bonding cabling. Presumably disconnected and chucked out by whomsoever [STRIKE]threw[/STRIKE] put in the replacement cylinder as by using all those pushfits he assumed there was no further need for equipotential bonding.

I'm curious to know what equipotential bonding is, and why it would be important for the cylynder.

Thanks. Single tank implies single feed implies Primatic Cylinder but I'm not convinced thats what you have there as I think I see two feeds and the primary circuit tappings seem too far apart for a primatic. What does it say on the label on the cylinder? Its far too blurred to see in the image. But thats bye the bye.

Doesn't say an awful lot on the label, just info about lengths of parts and max working pressure of primary heater, would that help answer your question?

I am certain that you have a circulation problem whether thats caused by an airlock that has slowly built up over time in that pipework and may have been added to substantially recently by the Willis boiling the water or perhaps you do have a scaling issue up. I'm not entirely convinced of the latter possibility though as IIRC you have relatively soft water in that neck of the woods. However if you have been boiling the water in the Willis for some time it will scale up just like a kettle. What I do know is that if that cylinder is a primatic then you should NOT under any circumstances add any chemicals whatsoever to the system either for descaling or anti-corrosion purposes.

Now whether its air or scaling then its going to be impossible to sort remotely over t'internet. You really have to get someone in to it. Sorry if that not quite what you wanted to hear after several days of this thread. BTW - whilst they are on site get 'em to look at your copper knitting with a view to sorting it out - really needs doing TBH - especially the Willis output, tap drawoff, vent arrangement.

Fair enough, it needs to be done really. By copper knitting you mean the ground cables?

I think the heating is sidepumped, will have to check with my dad. on that one. We just have a programmable timer for the central heating system.

Just stick a score in the childrens charity box when you can if you wouldn't mind.

Say again?

..........the top of the Willies burns my hand.......

Theres just a tad too much information there!!

...But what do i do about it!