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Immersion

  • 19-12-2020 9:08pm
    #1
    lost one
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭


    Trying to help a neighbour with this.

    I’m pretty sure I know the cause.

    The cylinder in the hot press and the pump on the attic need to be replaced but my neighbours father keeps getting in the way - promises to do it then doesn’t and gives her a hard time about getting a plumber. Central heating is just about holding on but she is getting someone next week. The father had been around with more promises and in the hot press for a while.

    Now is hot water coming from the tap on the bathroom sink but only warm for the shower after the immersion has been on a couple of hours.

    The shower water was hot the other day.

    I’m pretty he has disconnected a wire in the element. I had a landlord do that to me years ago. My neighbour needs the shower going tonight and I can fix that but don’t know what switch in the fusebox to turn off. Turning off everything is as her son is autistic and will freak out if the lights are off.


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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,157 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    lost one wrote:
    I’m pretty he has disconnected a wire in the element. I had a landlord do that to me years ago. My neighbour needs the shower going tonight and I can fix that but don’t know what switch in the fusebox to turn off. Turning off everything is as her son is autistic and will freak out if the lights are off.


    All due respect but if you don't know what fuse is for the immersion then you probably shouldn't be going near the wiring.

    Anyway your post is a little bit muddled or maybe I'm muddled. If there is hot water at the tap then it's unlikely that anything is up with the wiring. If hot water is going to the tap then she has hot water. It's possible that the thermostatic cartridge in the shower needs replacing or the filter on the hot is blocked. Either one of these can cause Luke warm water in the shower but hot water in the rest of the home


  • #3
    lost one
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭lost one


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    All due respect but if you don't know what fuse is for the immersion then you probably shouldn't be going near the wiring.

    I did say that myself but then I felt bad.

    I’m going to see if I can get a plumber for her.


  • #4
    Psychiatric Patrick
    Registered Users Posts: 974 ✭✭✭Psychiatric Patrick


    Plumbing and heating is beyond me but I have a memory’s from childhood of my sisters getting upset that there was enough hot water and that my father used to limit by turning a valve. It was a constant battle of him turning this valve and they’d turn it up.

    Does that make sense? My memory could be faulty.


  • #5
    lost one
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭lost one


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    All due respect but if you don't know what fuse is for the immersion then you probably shouldn't be going near the wiring.

    Anyway your post is a little bit muddled or maybe I'm muddled. If there is hot water at the tap then it's unlikely that anything is up with the wiring. If hot water is going to the tap then she has hot water. It's possible that the thermostatic cartridge in the shower needs replacing or the filter on the hot is blocked. Either one of these can cause Luke warm water in the shower but hot water in the rest of the home

    Well I was correct.

    A plumber friend of someone I know was willing call to the house last night. I told him the father had been the hot press and he say no more and opened the cap on the element and one of the wires had indeed been disconnected.

    And the plumber said he has seen this before - old guys being weird about the immersion but coming into someone house and doing was new.


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