Best Way To Fit A Vented Cylinder

[village idiot]

I was called by a customer yesterday. He informed me that: 'The thing you put in hot water tank is gone. Can you come and sort it out please'?
On arrival, his tenant let me in and on further investigation it turns out it was the immersion heater that had packed up. I got into the loft to try and change it, then started scratching my head looking very confused?

 

[chris watkins]

Was that stat ever wired in ??

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

1st thought was oh my life what is that!?

 

[village idiot]

Was that stat ever wired in ??

It was. All correctly wired and polarity, continuity, etc all checked and ok. The interesting bit is that the cylinder was fitted just FOUR months ago????

Next to the cylinder are at least 3 old immersion heaters and at least 8 stats? WTF

 

[AMW]

Shouldn't it be moved to hall of shame??? Lol

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Looks like a "spare" stat thrown on the floor.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Scrap that 3 immersions in 4 months? Mmmm

 

[antdad]

Hope the cylinder is sitting on a bit more than a piece of ply.

 

[village idiot]

Scrap that 3 immersions in 4 months? Mmmm

No. The 3 immersion were from the old cylinder that was there. It's just that old cylinder was replaced with new, but only 4 months and immersion has packed up. Nice.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Hard water? Maybe put the immersion on a timer, no point in making it work through the night when there's no demand.