Ah, that's better
And we have proper hot water again.
I had another look for the instructions for the immersion heater again yesterday morning. They came on an utterly ridiculous fold out piece of paper about the size of the instructions you get with Kinder Egg toys, which makes finding it a bit of a chore. Sure enough, I've still not managed to find it. I'm sure it's in the filing cabinet somewhere. Perhaps it's just so small that it's fallen out of the folder it's in and down the side of the cabinet - wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Ah, but the web came to our aid once again... :-)
I went down to the bathroom cupboard (wherein the immersion heater lurks) and used the flashlight on my phone to read the teeny, tiny text on the immersion heater control dial that gave the manufacturers name. Then I fed it to Google, alongside text akin to "bloody immersion heater instructions OMFG", and sure enough, the second or third link I clicked on was a lovely PDF of instructions. A quick read through, and I returned to the bathroom cupboard, phone flashlight in hand, and solved the issue in minutes. Sure enough, the time on the immersion heater clock was correct, but it wasn't synced to the time being used by the timer, so it was coming on 12 hours adrift. No wonder (a) we were running out of hot water at times, and (b) our last couple of leccy bills were so high! I've actually taken it off during the day altogether, and am now running it purely during the wee small hours.
Of course, this process meant we still had no hot water when we got home from work yesterday as we had to wait until this morning for the heater to cycle through at the correct time, but today we have lovely, lovely hot water. There is also a degree of smug mode in finally having the beast running at the right time, something which (as Steen reminds me) I've been meaning to do for ages, but never managed to get around to. We should save a bucket in leccy fees, too - that'll probably pay for next summer's US flights all by itself... ;-)
Right, back to the OU books, then...
I had another look for the instructions for the immersion heater again yesterday morning. They came on an utterly ridiculous fold out piece of paper about the size of the instructions you get with Kinder Egg toys, which makes finding it a bit of a chore. Sure enough, I've still not managed to find it. I'm sure it's in the filing cabinet somewhere. Perhaps it's just so small that it's fallen out of the folder it's in and down the side of the cabinet - wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Ah, but the web came to our aid once again... :-)
I went down to the bathroom cupboard (wherein the immersion heater lurks) and used the flashlight on my phone to read the teeny, tiny text on the immersion heater control dial that gave the manufacturers name. Then I fed it to Google, alongside text akin to "bloody immersion heater instructions OMFG", and sure enough, the second or third link I clicked on was a lovely PDF of instructions. A quick read through, and I returned to the bathroom cupboard, phone flashlight in hand, and solved the issue in minutes. Sure enough, the time on the immersion heater clock was correct, but it wasn't synced to the time being used by the timer, so it was coming on 12 hours adrift. No wonder (a) we were running out of hot water at times, and (b) our last couple of leccy bills were so high! I've actually taken it off during the day altogether, and am now running it purely during the wee small hours.
Of course, this process meant we still had no hot water when we got home from work yesterday as we had to wait until this morning for the heater to cycle through at the correct time, but today we have lovely, lovely hot water. There is also a degree of smug mode in finally having the beast running at the right time, something which (as Steen reminds me) I've been meaning to do for ages, but never managed to get around to. We should save a bucket in leccy fees, too - that'll probably pay for next summer's US flights all by itself... ;-)
Right, back to the OU books, then...