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*Sigh* I wish mine would do that. I can only get the bastard to come on overnight.

Do you not have a switch in your airing cupboard ( or whereever your tank is) to turn it on manually?

I do, but it ignores me.

Get a sparky to take a look at it. After about an hour and half the tank starts to hiss abit. So you can't turn it on and forget about it. I did that once, the walls and pipes started banging. I thought it was gonna explode.

Well to be honest I probably can't afford to have it on in the day anyway, it's all or nothing with this damn system!

How come Iceland is causing so much trouble in all of this? It's a remote island with a village for a capital city and a population of less than half a million.

It's actually Kerry Katona's fault - her want and need for cheap food has driven the world into recession.

all new Phil wrote:How come Iceland is causing so much trouble in all of this? It's a remote island with a village for a capital city and a population of less than half a million.

There are certain tax advantages to investing in ISAs and other financial products in Iceland (as well as other locations).

They're in the same boat as everyone else - but have opted to allow IceSave (owned by one of their banks) to become insolvent, where government intervention has prevented that outcome in other banks in other countries.

They're not deliberately disrupting the financial system; its just that their government don't feel they can guarantee those deposits.

The GDP of Iceland is $11.8 Billion, as opposed to Britain's $1.93 Trillion.

Lorns wrote:Get a sparky to take a look at it. After about an hour and half the tank starts to hiss abit. So you can't turn it on and forget about it. I did that once, the walls and pipes started banging. I thought it was gonna explode.

Your immersion needs attention. There is NO point in heating your water tank to 90-odd degrees, apart from the cost it is dangerous.

Your immersion heater has a thermostat. If the water is getting as hot as you suggest, either it's turned up full or - more likely - it is knackered. A new thermostat will cost less than £10 and if you can wire a plug you can fit it. There's no plumbing required. It's a separate unit on the immersion heater itself.

Once you have a working thermostat you can play with the temperature so that it's only heating the water to the temperature you need for a shower and washing, and about 40 C is going to be enough for that. There is a little knob on the thermostat which you adjust left or right as required, and it'll take a few days to get that right - the labelling on it is unlikely to be all that accurate.

I have a masochistic bent so I like to read the comments in the Daily Mail for about 10 minutes every day (until I get angry/depressed with the idiocy and cruelty of those who see those qualities in other people). It was superb today because the commentators were tying themselves in knots trying to agree with what Brown chose to do by going after Iceland but at the same time trying not admit they approve of him because he's obviously a damn commie. My favourite was along the lines of "he doesn't normally do good things but today he has. WHAT IS HE UP TO?!"

Sput... do you have economy 7 heating, or was there once economy 7 heating in the flat? I suspect that it is now, or once was, set up to take advantage of heating the water on the lower overnight rate.