Help from plumber/electrician type peeps

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:21 pm

The flat I live in has an immersion heater and I'm buggered if I can figure out why I only get no more than about 5 minutes hot water when in the shower

It's a Megaflow model, quite big

it also has two switches one runs into the top and the other into the bottom, what are they for?

Also how long should I leave it on for and what kind of k/w does it use

This is cause I think I'm having my eyes ripped out by E.on and I'm pissed of with the amount of hot water I currently get

sam collin's ugly brother · **Joined:** Wed May 09, 2012 3:57 pm **Posts:** 734

Certainly not an electrician or plumber but I lived in. Flat a while back that was the same. One switch was for the backup tank and the other for the main.

You leave the main one one most of the time and you use the backup if you are going to need a lot of hot water.

D you have them both switched on? Maybe you have just the smaller backup tank on?

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:32 pm

sam collin's ugly brother wrote:

Certainly not an electrician or plumber but I lived in. Flat a while back that was the same. One switch was for the backup tank and the other for the main.

You leave the main one one most of the time and you use the backup if you are going to need a lot of hot water.

D you have them both switched on? Maybe you have just the smaller backup tank on?

Cheers for the reply
I switch them on together, but only for a while when I get in from work

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2013 7:50 pm

turn it off for 30 seconds and turn back on

sam collin's ugly brother · **Joined:** Wed May 09, 2012 3:57 pm **Posts:** 734

TalbotAvenger wrote:

sam collin's ugly brother wrote:

Certainly not an electrician or plumber but I lived in. Flat a while back that was the same. One switch was for the backup tank and the other for the main.

You leave the main one one most of the time and you use the backup if you are going to need a lot of hot water.

D you have them both switched on? Maybe you have just the smaller backup tank on?

Cheers for the reply
I switch them on together, but only for a while when I get in from work

You need to figure out which one is the main tank and leave it on permenantly as it heats the water slowly. The emergency tank heats it quickly and it costs a fortune.

offshorepoolie · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 6011

They will take the same amount of power to raise the temprature to the appropiate level..u cannae change the laws of physics
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TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:00 pm

offshorepoolie wrote:

They will take the same amount of power to raise the temprature to the appropiate level..u cannae change the laws of physics
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So why is it there, for a placebo effect?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37471

What is the capacity of the tank?

offshorepoolie · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 6011

Snowy wrote:

What is the capacity of the tank?

Conkering with Mr Snowy

Also

Check the wattage of the heater (s).. Have a look at the meter and see how fast the whizzy disc is going round on the different settings or meter is clocking up if itsa digital one .. One of the circuits for the emersion heater could be open circuit.If it is a dual wattage .

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37471

Is the shower gravity fed or pumped, is it a standard shower or multiple outlets?

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:05 am

Do you shower every day or just have wash day on a Sunday?

tonyparry · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:19 am

sounds like your thermostat could be fooked, an easy inexpensive fix.

offshorepoolie · **Joined:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:32 pm **Posts:** 6011

ah yes Mr Parry but Talbot claims he's spending tons on leccy.. so maybe he's supplying next door!

The Fat Man · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:03 pm **Posts:** 2107

He needs to ditch the cannabis farm; he'd use far less leccy then.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:27 am

But his weed dealing empire would be in ruins so he'd be too skint to pay the reduced bill. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:00 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

Do you shower every day or just have wash day on a Sunday?

More importantly, do you wash your armpits before your bollocks or vice versa?

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:36 pm

Is the shower gravity fed or pumped, is it a standard shower or multiple outlets?
Don't really know, suspect it's just a standard shower

Can't check the meter, they are locked away in a central area for all the flats, or 'apartments' as they call them

Can't see a thermostat or owt else on the tank, its a big one
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I'll get the letting agents to have a look

Cheers for all the replies

parmo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:24 am

just do what Ritchie and Eddie did in that episode of Bottom, and murder the meter reading man

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