To be fed up with DH turning off the hot water?!

[Daffodil2018]

Just that really. I'm on mat leave at the moment so in the house most of the day. Every single time I go to run the hot tap, only cold comes out so I go and check the water tank and - lo and behold - he's turned the hot water completely off AGAIN. He does it all the time.

This is so fucking annoying on many levels. I want to wash my hands in hot water after changing a nappy. I don't want to have to wait half an hour to run DD a warm bath each evening. There is a timer setting, which he could just leave it on, but NO. Off entirely.

I've asked him so many times not to do it and he either LIES (!!!) about it or says "but we don't need it on all the time". He is being a stingy bastard if you ask me. Alright for him going off to his office all day.

I literally do nothing except look after the baby at the moment and I think having hot water to wash my hands/her stuff in is not just hygienically necessary but a basic comfort too. AIBU?!

Cookit you've been lucky and have lived in places with a combo boiler, they are by far the best. I hate my emersion heater. It's really annoying but my village doesn't have gas and I've not got the funds to install a whole oil system with oil heating. To be fair to the emersion it does its job and I've actually learnt to replace the thermostat in it myself, and contrary to popular belief I find it pretty cheap to run. You do have to wait a while if someone has just had s bath, but I'm okay with that. I could never ever live with it on a timer. That for me is a step too far. Too much the bed sit days for my liking. I'm a 40 year old women now not a student!

Combi!

It depends on your system. A combi doesn't work for us because there's not enough pressure if 2 people take a shower and one flushes the toilet.

We have our heater on a timer, but set up so it covers what we need and there's enough water. It's set up so it heats for longer at the weekend, when we usually have people around, kids have showers at different time and we don't want to think about it.

I never have to wait to have a bath because someone else had one first. Your tank is too small!

MorondelaFrontera yes it probably is, it's just a 2 bed cottage size house. That doesn't worry me tbh as it's very unlikely that we'd run 2 baths in the evening, also my husband takes about an hour in the bath so by then it's ready to run another if I wanted one.

I mention the size of the house as it was never built for a big family.

I wouldn't have a combi either. We have 2 bathrooms with showers and a downstairs toilet. I don't think they're great in that situation

We have three bathroms, no-one seems to need hot water at the same time. After many years of timed water, hot water when you want it is bliss.

Serve his dinner up cold, tell him frozen veggies more nutritious and saves him money! Repeat until he gets the message!