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PasturesNew

I finally plucked up the courage to turn the heating on..... got there, put my glasses on - and spotted a hitherto unseen little switch I'd not noticed before. Now having to dig out the book to find out what that is.

I wasn't brought up with central heating and have very very limited experience of using it.

It seems awfully overcomplicated:
- set each individual radiator
- set a thermostat in the hallway
- set a radiator temperature dial on the boiler
- set the timer for which times it'll come on/go off
- set one of 3 settings on a switch on the front of the boiler (I suspect it's some version of: on/off/timer)

Edit- the instruction manual doesn't say what the switch is.... so I am guessing it's on/off/timer, but then having to nervously guess which is which. At least I can google the model to see if somebody else is asking.

Edit 2: Did google it, can't find anybody else asking.

tom9980

PasturesNew wrote: »

I finally plucked up the courage to turn the heating on..... got there, put my glasses on - and spotted a hitherto unseen little switch I'd not noticed before. Now having to dig out the book to find out what that is.

I wasn't brought up with central heating and have very very limited experience of using it.

It seems awfully overcomplicated:
- set each individual radiator
- set a thermostat in the hallway
- set a radiator temperature dial on the boiler
- set the timer for which times it'll come on/go off
- set one of 3 settings on a switch on the front of the boiler (I suspect it's some version of: on/off/timer)

Edit- the instruction manual doesn't say what the switch is.... so I am guessing it's on/off/timer, but then having to nervously guess which is which. At least I can google the model to see if somebody else is asking.

I feel your pain there are 9 switches in our airing cupboard 5 of which i cant seem to understand what they are for.

PasturesNew

Woo - go me. I just set the thermometer in the hallway and heard it "switch".... so thought "oooh" and went into the kitchen, turned up the radiator temperature switch and the boiler's fired up.

So now it'll be 30 minutes of running round the house panicking and feeling every radiator until I am comfortable nothing bad's just happened.

Edit 1: Had turned the rads down to 1. Now realised I need to turn them up higher, to make sure the water comes through - and I can turn them down/set the right temperature for them over the coming weeks/months. They are starting to warm up

Edit 2: Huffing and puffing here. Been round them all at least 4x now feeling them all. Just forgot to turn up the bathroom towel radiator thing.... so that's the only one on the system that's not warmed up yet ..... right, off to run upstairs and check that one now.

Edit 3: I am happy now that nothing bad will happen immediately... the kitchen rad's on full I guess as it's hot and the plastic knob's missing, but that's minor.
Now just wait 30 minutes or so as it warms up the house and I can do one more check. I do need to get it working on timer at some point, just no point today. Today was just about getting the courage to turn it on at all.

AlexMac

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wasn't brought up with central heating and have very very limited experience of using it.....

Agreed- when I were a lad in the 50's Central Heating meant the coal fire in the living room.

But then 'central locking' on my 1st car; a Citroen 2CV, in the '70's, meant being able to reach all 4 doors from the driver's seat.

And 'air cooled' didn't just apply to the engine, but to the passengers when you opened that flap under the windscreen.

and no on-board computer (or come to that, off-board ones...).

So are things better now they're more complex...?

tom9980

Masomnia wrote: »

Had a phone call from the recruitment people about the job I really want, they want to progress the application, which is great news. I have to go for numerical and IT tests, and since their office is 5 minutes from the recruitment consultants, the recruitment guy wants to meet for a coffee to discuss my career aspirations and see what else they've got. That all feels very positive.

Expecting a phone call probably today from the job I don't want though...

Could be a bit of a dilemma.

Start practising your can i think about it routine, maybe even ask to see the contract of employment first? anything to delay a few days.

PasturesNew

tom9980 wrote: »

I feel your pain there are 9 switches in our airing cupboard 5 of which i cant seem to understand what they are for.

Oh God, that'd have finished me off

PasturesNew

AlexMac wrote: »

So are things better now they're more complex...?

The idea's nice - the practice is that they're all so different. You can't beat the simplicity of one manual big switch ON/OFF. You know where you are with that.

If they all worked the same, with the same dials/buttons/switches/options then it'd be easier to fathom things out, but every one's so darned different.

PasturesNew

OK, work this one out. There is a green light on the front panel. Go back 5 minutes later and it's off.

User Manual says if it's yellow it's one problem, if it's red it's another problem. So why has it not told me the significance of the green and off.

Now I am thinking about it I think it's a "burner" indicator. So burner green = "ON/working" and off = "NOT ON".

So - now I'm thinking "what do you mean, not on?" Why's it stopped so soon?

Edit 1: Got it. I'd not set the thermostat very high, nor the radiator temp dial on the boiler front very high. So it'd reached its miserly temperature. Just turned the rad temp knob on the front of the boiler up a bit and the green light came on

Mastering this ......

Masomnia

tom9980 wrote: »

Start practising your can i think about it routine, maybe even ask to see the contract of employment first? anything to delay a few days.

Haha yes. It'll be a good couple of weeks at least before anything comes of the others, so I'll have to accept it. Not least because Job Centre people will sanction me if they find out I didn't take it

I shouldn't be so negative about the local job, it really would be great experience; but there are some major downsides. While I'm still in with a good shout at things that would suit me so much better it's really frustrating.

Masomnia

Our central heating is very finely tuned. All the radiators set to the right level and so on. I must be a nightmare to live with at times