No hot water in holiday property in cornwall

[HappyHippo99]

My husband and I had a shower this morning and my daughter had a shallow bath (she’s a toddler) this afternoon. We’ve done one load of washing and the usual washing up etc. The water supply is via water tank. Should we contact the holiday rental providers tonight or tomorrow morning?

It's a bit rubbish that there isn't an explanation of how the hot water works somewhere in the information pack. Are you sure there isn't?

This happened to us last year in Cornwall! I rang the number for the owner and they sent someone. In our case the switch was in a locked cupboard there was nothing we could have done.

Our immersion heater switch was downstairs in the kitchen even though the tank was in the bathroom upstairs.

In that case I suspect it's Economy 7 or similar

We used to have one and it basically heated the tank of water overnight…so once you’d used it up (don’t know how long your showers are or how deep the bath was) that was your lot. There should be a way to boost it though.

Ours was the same there was also also a switch next to the tank. It’s worth checking the fuse box to make sure the fuse hasn’t tripped. Also on our immersion heater there was a tiny reset button on the tank itself on a thermometer. You needed an earring / paper clip as it’d cut out sometimes. Trip the fuse but would also need a manual reset.

Have you checked the instructions for the heating, as the hot water may be on the same system?

Off the point, but how on earth have you managed to accumulate a full load of washing after just one day?

They have a 3 year old and a baby. When I had kids that age, on a bad day I could accumulate a full load of washing in less than an hour. 😂

OP is on holiday with a small child and a baby, very easy to generate a load of washing in a day!

Are you in Sennen cove by any chance

There might be another " boost" switch somewhere
They should provide clear instructions, it's obvious you'll need hot water!
washing machines are cold fill so you're ok there
The only suggestion I have is boil kettles to have shallow baths

literally 😂😂😂

2 showers, a bath and washing up could easily use a tank of hot water up. That’s the pain of that heating system - I grew up with a system that was similar and particularly in summer if the heating wasn’t on we were always having to turn the immersion on to e.g. wash the dishes.
if you leave the immersion on for a long time it costs a bomb which is why I suspect the owners have locked it somehow so it only comes on at night time to heat up the tank. Hopefully they will explain how you can get extra hot water or agree to have it turned on a second time during the day. There isn’t really a way to get instant on demand hot water with this system though, you’re always limited by the volume of hot water in the tank.

Just message the owner and ask.

Mine was in the kitchen, the tank was in the hall and had a second switch there.

OP

It might be connected to the boiler, it might be an immersion heater, it might be both.

If you look at the hot tank and there is a sort of, well it looks a bit like a tin can but plastic with writing on it you have an immersion heater. It basically works like a kettle, there is an electrical element that heats the water. It will have some electrical wiring connected.

If the water is heated from the boiler then you will have an inlet and an outlet pipe.

Link to a diagram with both .

www.acrplumbingandheating.ie/immersion-heaters/

Still off this morning. Electrician is coming out this morning to check

This is why I like hotels.

There’s always some form of stinginess round the hot water in a rental/air bnb IME.

Is it on a timer so you drained the tank and it needs to reheat in the evening? What are the controls, is there a boost switch?

It sounds as though you have used all the hot water. It may be on a timer so that there's not a tank full of hot water going cold all day. There may be a boost switch somewhere.

When you say it's still off this morning, do you mesn it's cold? It may be that you need to wait for the hot water to come through the tap.

All sorted. There was a reset fuse button that had tripped (right on the top) said the water was set at 70 degrees and should probably be at 60

If might be worth boiling the kettle
fot hot water to wash up, and even for the baby / toddler baths, so ensure hot water remains available for showering (my baby was a vomiter, so I often showered several times a day!)