I was reading elsewhere that a household of 2 people using about 4kWh of gas a day for showers and washing up.
My usage is between 10 and 11 every day for the same.
My cylinder and stat are pretty old but my boiler is nearly new.
The stat is set to 60 which is the recommended temp as it prevents legionnaires.
But there is more info suggesting you can get away with 49 degrees.
My stat is mounted quite near the bottom of the tank, so it must be trying to heat the whole tank to 60.
So the questions are
1) what do we think about moving it up the tank a bit or turning it down to 50?
2) is the stat likely to be bust, as the water is too hot to put your hand under (I am going to measure the heat)
Or should I just leave well alone?
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