At my wits end over my gas consumption

Housework*Fairy

macman wrote: »

Why? 24C is absurdly high. 19C-21C is right for most people. Each degreee you go up will add approx 10% to your heating bills. And have you sorted out the faulty thermocouple and adjusted the tank stat setting back to around 60C yet?

I don't even know what a tank stat setting is. If it's on the water tank in the loft I can't get up there

And no, haven't sorted out a gas engineer to come yet. It's on my to-do list. I think one of the parents my son goes to football with maybe a heating engineer so I'm going to have a word with him.

Housework*Fairy

I was wrong about the 24 - it is on 20. I thought I had put it on 24, I could have sworn I had, but now I have gone to change it down and it is on 20.

I've asked my next door neighbour about her usage. She uses more or less the same heating times as me, and she has her water setting on constant so she's read her meter now, and she is going to see how many units she's used.

I had an e-mail from EDF who have said they will come and read the meter for £35 which is refundable if it's found to be faulty and they want 7 days worth of readings.

read meter again and it has gone up 1 unit since I posted this morning.

macman

Housework*Fairy wrote: »

I don't even know what a tank stat setting is. If it's on the water tank in the loft I can't get up there

And no, haven't sorted out a gas engineer to come yet. It's on my to-do list. I think one of the parents my son goes to football with maybe a heating engineer so I'm going to have a word with him.

Why can't you access your own loft?
But it's the hot water tank we are talking about, not the cold water tank.

Housework*Fairy

macman wrote: »

Why can't you access your own loft?
But it's the hot water tank we are talking about, not the cold water tank.

Cos it's a hatch and we don't have a loft ladder. So stupid question - where is the hot water tank? I have a combi boiler. Sorry for sounding like a thicko but I genuinely am clueless about heating systems.

Housework*Fairy

And re the water - if I put it on for an hour in the morning will that water then stay hot all day?

Only need hot water for personal washing in a morning and then a sink of washing up, then in the evening as DH gets about 3 baths per week, and the kids get 2 per week, and another load of washing up

ukjoel

Housework*Fairy wrote: »

Cos it's a hatch and we don't have a loft ladder. So stupid question - where is the hot water tank? I have a combi boiler. Sorry for sounding like a thicko but I genuinely am clueless about heating systems.

AND

And re the water - if I put it on for an hour in the morning will that water then stay hot all day?

Only need hot water for personal washing in a morning and then a sink of washing up, then in the evening as DH gets about 3 baths per week, and the kids get 2 per week, and another load of washing up

If you have a combi boiler the surely you dont ever need to turn the water on or off its hot when you need it.

Have I missed something???

closed

there's one way to find out, try it.

Housework*Fairy

ukjoel wrote: »

AND

And re the water - if I put it on for an hour in the morning will that water then stay hot all day?

Only need hot water for personal washing in a morning and then a sink of washing up, then in the evening as DH gets about 3 baths per week, and the kids get 2 per week, and another load of washing up

If you have a combi boiler the surely you dont ever need to turn the water on or off its hot when you need it.

Have I missed something???

There is a control panel on the wall with two buttons - hot water advance and heating advance. They have the timing controls and that's where I set it to on, timed, once, twice etc... I did have them both to 'on' so they were on the whole time, but now they are on timed.

This http://i.stack.imgur.com/8IUsR.jpg

macman

Housework*Fairy wrote: »

Cos it's a hatch and we don't have a loft ladder. So stupid question - where is the hot water tank? I have a combi boiler. Sorry for sounding like a thicko but I genuinely am clueless about heating systems.

Stepladder then?`If you have a combi then the water is heated on demand-there is no hot tank. So I don't think you have a combi boiler.
Make and model of boiler?

Housework*Fairy

macman wrote: »

Stepladder then?`If you have a combi then the water is heated on demand-there is no hot tank. So I don't think you have a combi boiler.
Make and model of boiler?

Glow Worm 40FF. So it's a cold water tank in the loft?

http://www.glow-worm.co.uk/stepone/data/downloads_sd/8b/00/00/micron-40ff.pdf