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Actually it wasn't, it was fairly normal.
I just haven't upgraded it or done much maintenance in recent years.

 

What make is it @pete ?

 

What make is what?

 

Your boiler

 

Its a Baxi, it was put in 23 yrs ago to replace the one that was put in 40 yrs ago, the original was only replaced because I wanted the boiler moved to upstairs so the flue was out of the way of the conservatory I wanted to build.

 

Thanks @pete , good to know some things still last!

 

My old one was a Baxi too. Put in in early 1999 ... and probably would have lasted a bit longer, but I wanted to avoid a terminal breakdown in mid-winter, so opted for a replacement in the summer. All my immediate neighbours have changed their original Baxis in the last two yrs. I held out the longest.

 

Our 41 year old boiler is a Stelrad Mexico floor standing boiler. It's very quiet and great for drying things on top too. Our cat used to love lying on top, getting singed.

 

Just for the records: I had to correct myself after reading the article again. Starmer and Reaves received together £150k.

 

That definitely doesn't sound right with your water @ViewAhead . My boiler is about 10 years old, and the heating doesn't go off when hot water is run. My shower runs from the central heating as opposed to the upstairs one, which is leccy, and it certainly doesn't go off when I shower.
I'll be looking out for that now though, once the heating's in use more often! Maybe I've just never noticed it.

 

That's pretty much my set up, @shiney ... except the bungalow bit.

@fairygirl, the heating doesn't go off. I can have hot water from the storage cylinder through the taps/shower, etc, and hot radiators simultaneously (the luxury ). What I don't seem able to do is to get the boiler to heat cold water in the cylinder (eg when I've just run a bath and the cylinder has refilled from the cold water tank in the loft) whilst the timer for the radiator heating indicates it is on (even if the boiler is resting as the room thermostats say the house is warm enough).

No matter. If it was January and I lived within the Arctic Circle, I would be on an urgent mission to sort it. But Sept on the south coast is pretty benign even by the wimpy standards of us soft southerners!

That said, this Sept has been dreary beyond belief and I am not happy. Where are my misty mornings and blue-skied, warm days, eh? Wind, rain, and 100% grey cloud blanketing are not an acceptable substitute!

 

What I will add is I do know when mine was working normally a few years ago the water always seemed to get preference, so in a case of starting the whole system from cold the main heat always went to the hot water cylinder first.
But I think that was just down to the fact that that was the shortest route for the water to take so it cycles faster around that part of the system.
Of course I rarely start from a dead cold system so it's unnoticeable during normal usage.

 

There will presumably be a thermostat on the tank and also one on the boiler, the boiler will only fire up when the the water going through the boiler drops,not when the tank temperature drops, as such, so there will be some kind of lag if you have an indirect system.