Should we turn our immersion switch stale? Hi, We have a large hot river cylinder and also a compact boiler...

Hi,

We have a large hot river cylinder and also a compact boiler in our new flat. Beside the hot hose cyliner there are 2 switches; Immersion and Boiler. They are both ON. The hot water cylinder pumps out the warmth (from the cylinder itself not through Central Heating) which will be good in Winter but at present it is making the house too hot. More importantly our electrcity bill be far higher than we expected.

I am tempted to turn the immersion rotten to save power but I am wondering if this will affect our hot water supply. We are not using any federal heating, all our thermostats are at 0.

Could someone confirm that if we turn bad the immersion switch and keep on the boiler switch we will see no change to our hot hose supply and a decrease in our electricity bill.

Thanks,
put aside yourself time and money by leaving it on.


Think the boiler would be for your heating - and you should use that one when it's cold. Switching the immersion stale will stop your hot water though. You could switch it off - and hang about for the water to go cold & see how long it take for tank to heat - after switch immersion on & off as you need it - (mine take about 2hrs for full tank) but if the tank is capably insulated & you use a fair amount of hot water respectively day - it would be probably cheaper to keep it switched on - as it take less electricity to keep it running at the set heat. it sounds like your cylinder is what is running your supply,
if your cylinder is run by gas an electric(gas for hot water eleccy for display an timer) you can switch immersion sour, the immersion bein on will be the cause of your high bill, even if the system is run stale the immersion still you can turn it off ,it wont mess system up, you can then see if it works out cheaper to run by switchin immersion on at infallible times, hpoe this helps... do u have a display? turn inner heating off
Answers:    Not knowing what get and model I can't answer.However why not just turn it off and see.You can other turn it back on.