Really confused by boiler and water tank!

Myser

moreofthegoodstuff wrote: »

I will be doing a boiler care plan with British gas so they can explain how it all works but I can't do this for a month as I need a day off in the week for them to do the gas safety check.

No need to waste your money on this!

Just post pictures of your controls as mentioned by others.

pinkteapot

Definitely skip the BG boiler care plan!

As has been said, post photos of the controls.

If, as suspected above, the boiler can heat both the heating and the hot water, this is the best way to do it. Immersions are expensive. Most houses with gas heating and water also have an immersion fitted, I assume as an electric back-up so you can still heat water if the gas boiler fails.

Gingernutty

gardner1 wrote: »

if you had the immersion heater on all the time your electric bill will be :eek:

Yep!! :eek:

It sounds like my system.

There's an ON/OFF switch for the whole gas central heating/hot water system sitting next to another nearly identical switch for the immersion.

The timer and thermostat are further up the wall.

If you've had both switches set to ON, you've had the immersion on permanently running in conjunction with the gas central heating/hot water.

moreofthegoodstuff

http://s1351.photobucket.com/user/allieb1988/media/image_zpsb1de9169.jpg.html

moreofthegoodstuff

Can anyone see that? There should be two pictures. Today we had no hot water just having the one linked to the round thing switched on... Really confused!

Own_My_Own

moreofthegoodstuff wrote: »

Can anyone see that? There should be two pictures. Today we had no hot water just having the one linked to the round thing switched on... Really confused!

Yes We can see it. This may sound like a funny question but have you checked the fuse in switch ?

moreofthegoodstuff

When we switch the heating onto constant (on the side of the timer) the hot water is hot so I think the fuse is ok? Thanks for looking though

Own_My_Own

moreofthegoodstuff wrote: »

When we switch the heating onto constant (on the side of the timer) the hot water is hot so I think the fuse is ok? Thanks for looking though

But could the fuse not working stop the timer going round ? If the timer worked the whole thing may work.

stebiz

Is your boiler downstairs behind you fire?

southcoastrgi

right you have gravity hot water & pumped heating, which means you can have hotwater on it's own but if you have heating on then the water will heat as well, you can't have heating on it's own.

now your controls
that is your time clock, turn the dial to the correct time as i'm guessing you didn't take the pic at 3am, the red bits labled A&C switch the hot water/heating on the blue ones switch it off, which work in conjunction with the switch on the side that says off, timed, constant, move the red one (A) to the time on the dial you want it to switch on in the morn, move the blue one (B) to the time you want it to go off, move the red (C) to the time you want it to come on in the afternoon & finally move blue (D) to when you want it to go off, some of them you used to have to pull out to get them to engage but i think yours isn't one of them, now turn the dial around it should click when the red/blue get to the time marker & this will move the dial at the top that says on until & off until, if it does so far so good, put the dial back to the correct time put the switch on the side to timed & providing the dial moves around on it's own & shows the correct time then this should be sorted, if the dial doesn't go round it's knackered & you need a new time clock/programmer suitable for gravity hot water/pumped heating, make sure the room stat is down if you don't want your heating on