Hi all,
As an electrically illiterate person I've found a lot of the posts on this forum helpful when fixing things round the house. I was hoping I might get some guidance on any next steps before calling someone in about our immersion heater.
Context: we recently switched to a smartmeter for electric and realised our boiler was on all day unnecessarily! As such I did some digging, and reset our timings to economy 7 friendly times, which was easy and has been fine. we have hot water in the mornings no trouble, but once it's gone it's gone.
However, I am about to have a baby and would like to be able to boost this as and when needed (you can never be too prepared for poonamis). According to the manual, pressing 'boost' button should give an hour boost, but this isn't working at all. it just doesn't kick in. I've also tried setting a timed boost, and it just never turns on.
As a test, I set my off peak timer to have 1 time in the middle of the day, and this works fine, but I don't need a full tank of water and also don't want to pay through the nose to have this setting on all the time.
Troubleshooting tried thus far:
is there anything I've missed or I should try? I'm genuinely at a loss of what to do next, and baby is coming soon!
As an electrically illiterate person I've found a lot of the posts on this forum helpful when fixing things round the house. I was hoping I might get some guidance on any next steps before calling someone in about our immersion heater.
Context: we recently switched to a smartmeter for electric and realised our boiler was on all day unnecessarily! As such I did some digging, and reset our timings to economy 7 friendly times, which was easy and has been fine. we have hot water in the mornings no trouble, but once it's gone it's gone.
However, I am about to have a baby and would like to be able to boost this as and when needed (you can never be too prepared for poonamis). According to the manual, pressing 'boost' button should give an hour boost, but this isn't working at all. it just doesn't kick in. I've also tried setting a timed boost, and it just never turns on.
As a test, I set my off peak timer to have 1 time in the middle of the day, and this works fine, but I don't need a full tank of water and also don't want to pay through the nose to have this setting on all the time.
Troubleshooting tried thus far:
- resetting to preset timings by pressing boost, select, plus and minus buttons.
- switching the wall switch off and on again (classic)
- switching the big switch from timed to off and back again
- pressing 'select' so that a black box appears next to 'timed boost' - and trying it without too.
- manually filling up the overflow tank in case it was that.
is there anything I've missed or I should try? I'm genuinely at a loss of what to do next, and baby is coming soon!