Hi,
First of all, apologies, I have a really annoying need to understand things in minute detail. Today my Hot Water Cylinder seemingly ran out of adequately heated water after two short showers. The cylinder was heated between 8:30am-9:30am to a temp of 60 degrees. The only use was two short showers and filling a bowl for washing dishes. At 6:30pm I attempted to fill a bath and the water was around 35 degrees. The cylinder is around 117 litres so my assumption is that, simply, it's used up too much hot water and the cold that's replaced it has brought the total temperature of the cylinder water down. Would that be accurate? The other hypothesis (tongue in cheek) is that when I heated the cylinder this morning it was inadequately heated due to the central heating being on at the same time. Could that be likely? It's a vented, indirect system.
First of all, apologies, I have a really annoying need to understand things in minute detail. Today my Hot Water Cylinder seemingly ran out of adequately heated water after two short showers. The cylinder was heated between 8:30am-9:30am to a temp of 60 degrees. The only use was two short showers and filling a bowl for washing dishes. At 6:30pm I attempted to fill a bath and the water was around 35 degrees. The cylinder is around 117 litres so my assumption is that, simply, it's used up too much hot water and the cold that's replaced it has brought the total temperature of the cylinder water down. Would that be accurate? The other hypothesis (tongue in cheek) is that when I heated the cylinder this morning it was inadequately heated due to the central heating being on at the same time. Could that be likely? It's a vented, indirect system.
