Boiler / Water / heating advice needed

tinkerbelluk

I know this may sound stupid but I'm after some advice re the heating / water set up in a new house that we've just moved to.

In our previous house we had a really old combi boiler with no thermostat on the wall you simply turned the heating on or off and left the hot water on so it came out on demand.

In our new house it seems very different! We have a combi boiler in the loft, for which we have a control panel in the upstairs hall. Pretty standard controls I think both water and heating options so we're leaving the water on as in our old place.

However we now also have a thermostat in the downstairs hall and a friend told me to leave the heating on the on option and just control it via the thermostat? Is this correct?

As well as the combi there is also a massive water tank in the loft and an immersion heater upstairs with pumps connected to it (I'm presuming for the showers?). We've managed a couple of warm baths / showers but now both are just luke warm - are these being fed from the combi do you think or do we need to turn the immersion on as well? Also do we still need the immersion if we have a combi?

Sorry for sounding really simple but I'm just really confused and the previous owner left us no notes / manuals etc.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Canucklehead

Hi.

Doesn't sound you have a combi to me.

Post photos or list the make and model of all the bits you have.



GSR.

michael_nod

your hot water cylinder has a
water to water heat exchanger/exchangers
external to the copper tank
which feed showers/baths/kitchen sinks
your problem may be sludge/divertor valves
as previous poster identify the system
for repair ,,,,,,michael

probably a gledhill stored hot water unit
feeding showers/ect via mains fed heat exchangers
complicated to look at but easy
when the system boiler/cylinder ( copper tank ) is identified

keystone

Oh do stop it Karl. :beer:

Cheers

michael_nod

sorry who`s karl ?

Canucklehead

michael_nod wrote: »

sorry who`s karl ?

Hi.

Take a look in a mirror!


GSR

michael_nod

the poster has a hot water cylinder as part of the heating

a reverse of the y plan

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keystone

How on earth can you tell that from the description that OP has currently given - unless you have crystal balls? Oh I see "immersion heater with pumps attached" is automatically construed to be a sludge bucket. Well its a possibility I guess but more data definitely required IMHO.

Cheers

michael_nod

they have a cylinder and a tank in the loft
with other conections/valves

stored hot water and radiators pumped via the tank/pump

with mains
hot water heat exchangers

on a s plan/super s plan is my geuss ?


ps who is karl

tinkerbelluk

Thanks for all of your help so far. As requested please find pics

Control



Tank:


Pumps by tank:



Boiler in loft:



Another boiler shot!:



Watertanks



Pipes




Thermo



Sorry - Not sure if you needed all of these or not

Thanks again

michael_nod

a sealed system boiler feeding rads and cylinder
a wocester bosch outputting 64 degrees centigrade
in satisfied/return mode
with tank fed hot water cylinder or copper tank !poorly insulated
shower and hot water cold tanks coupled together with
" no lids no insulation "
and a shower pump by the looks
of it in the cylinder cupboard
an inexperienced fitter :mad:
pipework ( crap ) lazily installed
cylinder donkeys years old but not leaking poorly lagged

crap programmer and crap roomstat but probably working ?

its crap but it works identify the silly problem
turn you cylinder stat up for hotter showers:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
change your roomstat take it to antiques roadshow