Hot Water Cylinder - Water Too Hot (Ed.)

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If you check your meter readings regularly, you should also see average daily electricity use drops by a few kWh per day. Possibly a pound.

Energy from electricity costs about four times as much as energy from gas, so if you are lucky enough to have a gas boiler, the immersion heater is a backup for those rare occasions when the boiler is not working.

BTW you should also lag all those hot copper pipes. If you see any joints with patches of green corrosion or white limescale, polish it off with water and a green pan scourer. If it comes back you will know there is a bit of a leak.

 
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About right

Turning off the immersion heater seems to have done the trick.

I know that, you know that, just wondered if OP was posing a question or making a statement!

It's all about semantics and intent!
 
Nothing as it wasn't a question.

In my last conversation John i said i would check again today, so updated with the outcome.

OK. It does help others following, if you quote the post you're responding to.

If you want lower temps at point of use then you'll need TMVs either within the outlet or upstream.
 
About right

Turning off the immersion heater seems to have done the trick.
Suggest testing that the Immersion stat is working properly at its new setting by switching it on with the boiler HW programmed off and measure the temperature.
 
Suggest testing that the Immersion stat is working properly at its new setting by switching it on with the boiler HW programmed off and measure the temperature.

Older ones, with no overheat cutout, sometimes fail "on" resulting in scalding water which had led to some terrible results.
 

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