Urgent help turning boiler off

[Boodiemoonie]

Hello Mumsnetters, could anyone advise me how I can turn this boiler off (see photos)? It's making a humming noise which keeps me awake at night. I'm exhausted as a result. (It's a rental property and the landlord is out of reach at the moment). I'd be so grateful to anyone who can help. I'm going mad. Thank you!

Do you want to turn your boiler off just as the weather's getting worse?

I can't see an obvious way to do it from the photos. Is the make of the boiler on it? You can often Google and get instructions or the operating manual.

Other than that, do you have or can you get comfortable noise cancelling headphones?

If you turn off your boiler you won't have heating or hot water. It will be colder very soon. Check with EA if it needs a service. Is your gas certificate in date?

Why don't you just turn the temp to 0?
Beware though, due to legionella bacteria you shouldn't really have the water in the tank below 60 degrees.

The pictures you’re showing seem to be of a hot water cylinder, rather than a boiler. Do you have a thermostat to control when the heating comes on? There should be a control panel somewhere to programme when the heating and hot water go on and off each day. Presumably not on all the time?

Hi. There isn’t a switch in the photo that will isolate the electrical supply to this system. The mains power is supplied on. The grey cables going into the rectangular box branded danfoss. These likely come from a switch near your gas boiler if you know where that is

Thank you all immensely for your messages. I believe maudelovesharold might be right, it's not the boiler, it's a hot water cylinder. Am I right in thinking I need to locate the boiler to switch the noise off Spanglebrush?

The hot water cylinder is just a store of hot water and isn’t likely to be making the noise. Likely culprits are the zone valves (silver metal box) and the pump. The isolation switch for this bit of the system isn’t visable in your pictures and is likely to be by the gas boiler. Is the landlord sending someone out to you?

Do you have a big white box somewhere? The size of a kitchen cupboard.

I'd hunt for that, and hopefully nearby is the control panel. Then set the heating and hot water for daytime hours, and go off about an hour before bedtime. Right now, our heating is off, and the hot water on for an hour a day. As it gets cooler, the heating will be on more often - but never overnight.

I have a different set of boxes ajd controls but my hot water cylinder hums too so I set it to only heat up water at breakfast and teatime for half and hour. It’s then quiet overnight.

the landlord should have certificates to prove the various systems in the house have been checked and are compliant.

Going forward you need to ask how to contact him in an emergency in future. My friends landlord returned to India for a month and she had no way to contact him when the house had a gas leak and the system was condemned by an emergency person from the gas board she phoned out, leaving her with no hot water or heating.

Thank you All, I'll see if I can get in touch with the landlord but so far, so not good. The noise is almost definitely coming from the object shown in the photos (though the controls may well be somewhere else in the house). It goes off at midnight but I have to rise very early for work and really need to sleep before midnight to hold onto my sanity. Meanwhile, I suppose I can look for a white box where the main on/off switches could be found. Am I looking for the boiler here? As you can tell, I'm no wizz at these things.