Adjusting heating controls
General advice
- A timeclock or digital programmer automatically turns the heating and hot water on and off at the times you set. You can set them to come on once, twice or stay on all the time, as you require.
- Set the heating to go off during the night and when the home is empty during the day.
- During freezing spells, keep some background heat on all the time.
- A room thermostat controls the heating to keep the room at a set temperature. Turn the dial so that the arrow or marker is against the temperature setting you want. A comfortable and economic temperature is between 18°C and 21°C.
Timeclock programmer
- Remove the dial cover by twisting it slightly to the left.
- Check the clock. The correct time should show against the TIME mark.
- Set the times when you want the heating and hot water to come on and go off:
- hold the dial firmly so that it doesn’t move
- slide the ’on’ arrows (usually red and marked A+C) and the ’off’ arrows (usually blue and marked B+D) around to the times when you want the heating to go on and off.
- Check the switch at the side for the heating option you want: hot water only, or heating and hot water together.
- You can override the automatic setting by using the preselector wheel:
- on until D will keep it on all day until it reaches D
- off until A will keep it off all day until the next day.
Digital programmer
- Check the clock is showing the correct time. If not, put the timer switch to ’clock’ and adjust the time using the ’forward’ and ’reverse’ buttons.
- Set the switch to ’on’ and ’off’ in turn adjusting the times when you want the heating to come on and go off.
- Reset the timer switch to ’auto’ and double check the settings on display.
- You can overide the automatic setting:
- use ’on’ to override the set starting time
- use ’off’ to overide the set finishing time.
