TEST
Water heater
MAN: Hello?
WOMAN:
Hi. It’s Laura Cariton here. We’ve just arrived at the holiday flat, but I can’t
get the hot water
and heating to work.
MAN:
Oh right! That’s easy. Don’t worry. In the upstairs cupboard, you’ll find the water heater.
You’ll see three main controls on the left at the bottom of the heater.
The first one - the
round one on the far left - is the most important one for the heating and hot water. It’s
the main control switch.
Q11
Make sure it’s in the ‘on’ position. The switch is ‘off’. That’s
probably what’s happened - it’s got switched off by mistake. The middle one of these three
controls - you’ll see it’s slightly larger than the first one - controls the radiators.
If you feel
cold while you’re there and need the radiators on, this needs to be turned to maximum. The
last of the three controls - the one on the right - is usually on about a number four setting
which for the water in the taps is usually quite hot enough. Below
the heating controls in the
middle is a small round plastic button. If there isn’t enough water in the pipes, sometimes
the heater goes out. If this happens
