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Billyqureshi
Hi. Was wondering if anyone can help me with this!
my mum lives in am oldish house. I think it's a semi gravity system because there is high pressure cold water, a tank with immersion heater in it in the bathroom cupboard, a boiler below it in the kitchen, and I'm quite sure there's a water tank in the loft.
Theres a a small toilet room under the stairs which has always had a programmer in it. Picture attached. We were able to have water without heating, or water with heating. We couldn't have heating only. When I lived there, the switches stopped functioning and so we got used to using the mains switch to the downstairs boiler to control heating. This meant we always had heating with hot water, unless we just put the immersion heater on in the bathroom.
now. Mums had the toilet renovated and the builder has removed the old programmer and tiled over it. I never saw what was behind there but I presume some wires are there. I have no idea where these wires would have gone to.
he has fitted a new programmer (pictured) to where the plug socket to the boiler was.
now, he can't get the heating to work! When it's on, there's hot water but no heating. I find this very difficult to understand.
can anyone explain
what wires would have existed in the toilet and where would they have gone to
how can it be ok to just tile over them
is placing a new programmer by the boiler ever going to work to offer hw without heating
is the new programmer suitable
is it likely that he's just put a timer on a plug socket to the boiler
why is the heating not working now (If someone can explain how these systems actually provide hw without heating then I'd like to know)
The first few pics are obviously the old programmer.
With the new one, is the grey cable just from the ring main and the white flex goes to the boiler? Because then all this is just a timed switch. How could it possibly control heating / water?
thanks in advance to anyone that can educate me on this!
my mum lives in am oldish house. I think it's a semi gravity system because there is high pressure cold water, a tank with immersion heater in it in the bathroom cupboard, a boiler below it in the kitchen, and I'm quite sure there's a water tank in the loft.
Theres a a small toilet room under the stairs which has always had a programmer in it. Picture attached. We were able to have water without heating, or water with heating. We couldn't have heating only. When I lived there, the switches stopped functioning and so we got used to using the mains switch to the downstairs boiler to control heating. This meant we always had heating with hot water, unless we just put the immersion heater on in the bathroom.
now. Mums had the toilet renovated and the builder has removed the old programmer and tiled over it. I never saw what was behind there but I presume some wires are there. I have no idea where these wires would have gone to.
he has fitted a new programmer (pictured) to where the plug socket to the boiler was.
now, he can't get the heating to work! When it's on, there's hot water but no heating. I find this very difficult to understand.
can anyone explain
what wires would have existed in the toilet and where would they have gone to
how can it be ok to just tile over them
is placing a new programmer by the boiler ever going to work to offer hw without heating
is the new programmer suitable
is it likely that he's just put a timer on a plug socket to the boiler
why is the heating not working now (If someone can explain how these systems actually provide hw without heating then I'd like to know)
The first few pics are obviously the old programmer.
With the new one, is the grey cable just from the ring main and the white flex goes to the boiler? Because then all this is just a timed switch. How could it possibly control heating / water?
thanks in advance to anyone that can educate me on this!
