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I will take a photo of the meters when I am home. There are definitely 2 meters and the ‘heating’ meter is off if the boiler it switched off (red light comes on and stays on). When the boiler is running the meter comes on and red light flashes. The other meter is for ‘everything else’ as far as I know. There are definitely only 2 charges on the bill for units used which correspond to the 2 separate meters. Will post details once home.

Never planned to have a wood burner or similar here. We thought that the UFH system would provide all the heating needed. I don’t think there are any pipes for that anywhere.

I can do pretty simple things like bring the boiler back to pressure if it drops too low or reset the immersion heater if it trips but am clueless about the rest really.

It’s a Fusion 24kw 3 phase boiler supplied by The Electric Heating Company. I found an old photo with the cover off. I have the manual at home somewhere.

I think he may mean this?

How does the supply company prevent me using the cheap tariff / meter during the supposed down periods? From what I can tell it seems to let me use it all the time.

The programmer for the boiler was put on by a local plumber about a year ago. The reason why is noted in the invoice I posted. I think he decided that as my bill was adding up and up and he was no nearer to understanding what needed to be done he would shove those controls on to at least let me control when the boiler was off and on. Hot water only arrives in the taps if the underfloor heating pump (electric) is switched on and running. If that’s off then no matter how hot the water in the tank is it doesn’t get to the taps and it’s cold only. Switch the underfloor heating pump on and hot water is delivered to the taps. That’s one of my biggest issues with the set up as if I leave the underfloor pump on all the time the hot water disappears out of the tank somewhere even if every room thermostat is switched off so I’m not sure where it’s going. That in turn means that I would need to have the boiler on 24 x 7 to keep the water hot which isn’t practical on this tariff or from a cost perspective either. At present the boiler is only on when the wall controller switches it on (and off). I set those times using the on and off times.

No idea I’m afraid!

Thank you. Solar install man implied that it would be knackered. Maybe that’s because he couldn’t be ar5ed with it. Good to know it might be able to be salvaged.

And there is an inline water softener thing in there too.

Last ones. There is not much more in there. A single pipe that goes round almost at floor level and some pipe spaghetti at the end but I’d need to remove all cleaning stuff to get to those for a photo.

And more.

So here are a few more randoms pics I grabbed this morning in case they are helpful.

I think the thermal store is listed in one of the invoices I posted? 475l springs to mind. I thought that I had removed my address from everything? If I haven’t can you let me know what one it’s still showing in please and I’ll amend. I couldn’t find anything to redact easily so just scrubbed out my address pretty roughly using a tool not meant for that. My hubby didn’t design the system himself. I can’t remember what company came up with the original design, but he sourced the materials separately to get the best price. I think Wunderfloor designed the layouts for the UFH tracks and I seem to recall that we paid them a fee to do so. Before he died my hubby talked about sticking a second boiler in there for hot water, possibly a combi boiler, but didn’t get much further with it. Space would be a bit of an issue as the boiler room is pretty full. The electrics are all on the opposite wall, although that isn’t an external wall anyway, and the central vacuum unit is in the middle of the only other external wall. Not that I use that much anyway. I have a cordless Dyson that’s much easier to use . Hubby was gadget man and I just like plain and simple (and straightforward) things.

That dial showing 50 never goes above 50 now. It always stops at 50 and never rises. When the water was hotter it used to stop at 60. I will try turning the boiler up and see if that has any effect.

I had the boiler switched up as high as it could go at one stage but the Electric Heating Company man told me that I was cooking it and to turn it down. No matter how high the boiler was turned up the temp on one of the dials on the thermal store never seemed to get above 50-60 tho.

He did something that means that the water in the thermal store no longer gets as hot as it used to.

Adding a quick note to say that the guy who came out to fix the boiler in Nov when it stopped working turned the heating down to 50. It was at this point that there wasn’t enough hot water to fill a bath enough etc. It was always set at 60 before and at least provided enough hot water to take a decent bath. I don’t know how to turn it up though.

When you say picture of the boiler isn’t that in one of the first photos? Just a big white cover over all the working bits tho. Will take some more photos of anything else not in photos already and post tomorrow.

I don’t think there are any of those things anywhere. I did all the clips for the UFH and helped lay the pipes. Don’t remember anything like that being put in.

That's good as 'the runs' only means one thing to me and that's a bit crap . Need to sleep as have to be up at 5 ugh. Thanks so much to everyone for the help so far. Will try to reply to anything else once I'm home from work tomorrow.

Bit hard to zoom out enough as it’s not the largest room. Have zoomed out as much as I can on this phone.

Never seen anything like those TBH. Where would they be?

It didn't do anything in the summer either. Never heated any water even when it was pretty hot outside. I know that it did use to heat the water to about 40 degrees on a decent day but now doesn't do anything at all. I had the solar guy out in August but typically it was a rainy overcast day so the column was not showing as heating.