Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707 (Post 1049391)

Last night I was in my bedroom with my oil-radiator on... (This room is really cold, and I usually put the radiator on for about an hour before I retire to the room for this reason)! And after a couple of hours I was really cold again, I checked the radiator, and it had switched off, not just gone off-but switched off.

Honestly, I'm a sceptic where things like this are concerned but I was shaken up by it-mainly because there are two switches on the radiator, similar to light switches where they press down for on and up for off. They make quite a pronounced 'click' when the heater's switched from on to off-and I hadn't heard anything.

In the five hours or so before sleeping (with one eye open!) I had left the room only once, to go to the loo-the room was already cold by then so I'm inclined to think the heater was already off.
Is there a reasonable explanation why it would do this?It's never done it before-if it could be that the fuse or something's gone on it-would this activate the switch to off?
I've only ever had issues with the heater when I moved house-it took a while to get going again once in the new location-but as I said, it's never actually flicked off like this.

Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707 (Post 1049391)

Last night I was in my bedroom with my oil-radiator on... (This room is really cold, and I usually put the radiator on for about an hour before I retire to the room for this reason)! And after a couple of hours I was really cold again, I checked the radiator, and it had switched off, not just gone off-but switched off.

Honestly, I'm a sceptic where things like this are concerned but I was shaken up by it-mainly because there are two switches on the radiator, similar to light switches where they press down for on and up for off. They make quite a pronounced 'click' when the heater's switched from on to off-and I hadn't heard anything.

In the five hours or so before sleeping (with one eye open!) I had left the room only once, to go to the loo-the room was already cold by then so I'm inclined to think the heater was already off.
Is there a reasonable explanation why it would do this?It's never done it before-if it could be that the fuse or something's gone on it-would this activate the switch to off?
I've only ever had issues with the heater when I moved house-it took a while to get going again once in the new location-but as I said, it's never actually flicked off like this.

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1049392)

Has it not got a thermal trip switch on it that need resetting?

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1049393)

Have you tried the fuse in the 13 amp plug

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1049394)

Are you saying the actual on/off rocker switch had moved from on to off, have you any history of walking in your sleep?

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1049401)

I doubt that the on/off switch would be used as a trip switch, may have a seperate one inside somewhere, but that wouldn`t move the on/off switch in my limted experience with these radiators.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1049404)

Maybe that large dog you have has found out how to do it.

(I had a cat who learned how to open the fridge)

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1049405)

I`ve seen some strange things happen when people (kids in my case) are half asleep or have just nodded off, or if as said above, you have a dog wandering the house, he/she may have caught it. I`m sure it`s nothing to worry about.

Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707 (Post 1049406)

You had a cat with thumbs! :p imagine how doomed we'd all be if they all had them!

I have a house with my partner ,where Kya the dog lives, but at the moment I'm also renting this room from my friend-where I live usually Monday through to Thursday or Friday depending on work. So no, unfortunately I can't blame the dog-had she been here I would have for definite!



I have too lol-my ex-partner used to sleepwalk-he locked himself out of his house with no clothes on once!

But as I said, I wasn't asleep or anywhere near asleep. If I work from home I work until around 4 am or later. And as above, the dog isn't here. The only people in the house were me and the friend I rent the room off-he was asleep in his bedroom the whole time.
Thank you-I just wanted to know if anybody had a straight up reason why the heater would have done this-I have had some strange goings-on in houses all my life-but I like to think that most things can be explained rationally.

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1049407)

But if you are worried about whether the radiator is safe to use, take no chances, get a new one.

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1049408)

Could your friend have turned it off, they aren`t cheap to run, when we had to use them, i was forever going round the house turning them off.

Originally Posted by sugarmouse0707 (Post 1049406)

I like to think that most things can be explained rationally.