I need advice on how to turn off my immersion heater which heats the hot water in the house (no combi boiler) while I'm away. I get huge electricity bills, and usually leave it on when away for couple of weeks, but I thought it's such a waste. The issue is, I don't know how to do it - and whether I should I do it at all as don't want to disturb the system.
There is no clear on/off switch on the wall control panel. It has 4 buttons: Prog, Time, Adv and Bst around the screen, and also has a fuse (on the same small panel) which is on. It looks like the fuse is the only thing that can be turned off - but am worried it's the wrong thing to do.
The other question is, it's normally on timed, twice daily, regime. So if I turn it off, I don't want to reprogramme (was all set by previous owner). Also when we are in, the hot water always gets used twice daily - but if no one is there, would it still heat up second time in the day if the tank is still full of warm water, even if not very hot by that time? meaning that maybe it doesn't fire up twice daily if it's 'intelligent' enough, and uses less electricity?
Thanks a lot!
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LovePGtipsMonkey · 07/02/2016 17:28
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