Proto
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- Location
- East Devon/West Dorset
I’ve bought a house but because of the virus malarkey I’m unable to move in immediately, even though the house is now empty.
it has an oil fired (oldish?) Firebird S floor standing boiler, usual central heating radiators and a hot water storage tank upstairs. I’m not sure if it has a cold water tank in the loft, but don’t think so. There’s a 2 channel Drayton controller for hot water and heating, and a separate thermostat.
As the house will be unoccupied for some weeks, I asked the previous owner, on vacating the property on Monday, to switch off the oil fired Aga, switch off the central heating, turn off the mains water. I thought that would suffice.
However, I had to make a visit to pick up the keys on Wednesday and was surprised to find the house warm. Boiler was off, heating programmer was set to ‘off’, yet the radiators were warm to touch. Opened both hot and cold taps and nothing came out
Whilst I was there the boiler fired up again. Can’t understand why when controller said ‘off’. I found the wall thermostat (set to 18°C) an turned it to minimum of 10°C. Not sure what else I could do, so locked up and left.
But it’s bugging me and I want to make sure that there’s no risk to the house. I’d like to stop the boiler coming on at all.
So, can I just switch th electric supply off to the boiler to stop it firing? Will that actually stop it running?
Is it necessary to turn off the oil supply as well? (Gave a quick search for oil stop tap but couldn’t see one)
Why is nothing coming out of the hot water tap if there’s a big storage tank? As far as I know only the cold mains has been turned off.
Or should I just relax and let it run? There’s plenty of oil, so won’t run out.
Help!!
PS house is 60 miles from me and I’m taking huge care to self isolate. Prepared to go back again but don’t want to push my luck.
it has an oil fired (oldish?) Firebird S floor standing boiler, usual central heating radiators and a hot water storage tank upstairs. I’m not sure if it has a cold water tank in the loft, but don’t think so. There’s a 2 channel Drayton controller for hot water and heating, and a separate thermostat.
As the house will be unoccupied for some weeks, I asked the previous owner, on vacating the property on Monday, to switch off the oil fired Aga, switch off the central heating, turn off the mains water. I thought that would suffice.
However, I had to make a visit to pick up the keys on Wednesday and was surprised to find the house warm. Boiler was off, heating programmer was set to ‘off’, yet the radiators were warm to touch. Opened both hot and cold taps and nothing came out
Whilst I was there the boiler fired up again. Can’t understand why when controller said ‘off’. I found the wall thermostat (set to 18°C) an turned it to minimum of 10°C. Not sure what else I could do, so locked up and left.
But it’s bugging me and I want to make sure that there’s no risk to the house. I’d like to stop the boiler coming on at all.
So, can I just switch th electric supply off to the boiler to stop it firing? Will that actually stop it running?
Is it necessary to turn off the oil supply as well? (Gave a quick search for oil stop tap but couldn’t see one)
Why is nothing coming out of the hot water tap if there’s a big storage tank? As far as I know only the cold mains has been turned off.
Or should I just relax and let it run? There’s plenty of oil, so won’t run out.
Help!!
PS house is 60 miles from me and I’m taking huge care to self isolate. Prepared to go back again but don’t want to push my luck.