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My immersion heater was left on for 3 months HELP!

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  • cattie
    cattie Posts: 8,844 Forumite
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    I hope you've put a lock on the cupboard door now so that the little angel can't go around putting on the emersion heater any more without your full knowledge!
    The bigger the bargain, the better I feel.

    I should mention that there's only one of me, don't confuse me with others of the same name.
  • Yazz_comper
    Yazz_comper Posts: 29 Forumite
    Pincher wrote: »
    Trade the 3 year old to Nike as a child labourer to make shoes until he makes the money back. If you have to keep him, remove the fuse from the immersion heater switch.

    Third possibility is, send him to a school for geniuses, since he managed to work out:

    1. The gas boiler water heating is not working,
    2. The parents are clueless.
    3. how the water heating system works to produce hot water
    4. and by implication, washed himself for a month.

    By age 18, I expect him to work out how the universe is created, and how to get energy for free.

    Haha, It was working fine till the emmersion heater was turned on.
    2014 Debt Challenge:
    £1252/£3000 By 2015
    :TAiming to be debt free by January 2016.:T
  • Yazz_comper
    Yazz_comper Posts: 29 Forumite
    Lock now on the cupboard and going to call a sparky out to have a look at why the HE15 boiler wont seem to heat up the water anymore.
    2014 Debt Challenge:
    £1252/£3000 By 2015
    :TAiming to be debt free by January 2016.:T
  • Pincher
    Pincher Posts: 6,552 Forumite
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    Thermostat on the hot water cylinder, not the one in the immersion element housing. Your genius turned it all the way to the left. Just a guess.
  • Yazz_comper
    Yazz_comper Posts: 29 Forumite
    Pincher wrote: »
    Thermostat on the hot water cylinder, not the one in the immersion element housing. Your genius turned it all the way to the left. Just a guess.

    I cant see a thermostat at all?
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    £1252/£3000 By 2015
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    Tank 'stat is normally strapped to the side of the tank.
    NB: it's an immersion heater, and a plumber.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
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