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Hi,
My rather old immersion boiler decided to give up the ghost the other day, notifying the household by tripping the switches at the fuse box. I guess it is the heating element as replacing the fuse did nowt. No problems I thought as we have a boiler which can do our hot water for us - right? Wrong.
Turning on the hot water actually turns on the radiators across the house? So reading up a little bit it seems this could be down to the 3 port motorised valve. Thing is I havent got a :nono: clue how to use the thing (it has Auto and Man on it). So I decided to try a few hours in each position - which still gave me no hot water - bugger.
So looking at the piping system I tried to figure out the maze of pipes in my airing cupboard, it is like a mensa challenge in there (or at least it is to me). I have taken a photo of the piping to the right of the immersion boiler where the 3 port valve is - to the left of the boiler is another pipe which has feed coming from the cold water tank.
The two pipes which run against the wall are baking hot. As are the pipes coming out of the bottom and right of the 3 port valve. The pipe from the left of it is only lukewarm (would be grateful if someone could explain the purpose of the left pipe, not quite sure why it is there). At the bottom of the image is what I imagine to be the boiler return pipe (the one with the red stop tap on it). My neighbour who used to be a plumber says that hot water should flow from the boiler into the immersion tank providing hot water. Is this correct?
Would be grateful if anyone could provide any guidance here before I go out and spend money on new components which I may not need.
Thanks in advance
My rather old immersion boiler decided to give up the ghost the other day, notifying the household by tripping the switches at the fuse box. I guess it is the heating element as replacing the fuse did nowt. No problems I thought as we have a boiler which can do our hot water for us - right? Wrong.
Turning on the hot water actually turns on the radiators across the house? So reading up a little bit it seems this could be down to the 3 port motorised valve. Thing is I havent got a :nono: clue how to use the thing (it has Auto and Man on it). So I decided to try a few hours in each position - which still gave me no hot water - bugger.
So looking at the piping system I tried to figure out the maze of pipes in my airing cupboard, it is like a mensa challenge in there (or at least it is to me). I have taken a photo of the piping to the right of the immersion boiler where the 3 port valve is - to the left of the boiler is another pipe which has feed coming from the cold water tank.
The two pipes which run against the wall are baking hot. As are the pipes coming out of the bottom and right of the 3 port valve. The pipe from the left of it is only lukewarm (would be grateful if someone could explain the purpose of the left pipe, not quite sure why it is there). At the bottom of the image is what I imagine to be the boiler return pipe (the one with the red stop tap on it). My neighbour who used to be a plumber says that hot water should flow from the boiler into the immersion tank providing hot water. Is this correct?
Would be grateful if anyone could provide any guidance here before I go out and spend money on new components which I may not need.
Thanks in advance
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