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by badger
Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:28 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Minute Amount of hot water produced in new cylinder....ideas
Replies: 2
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Thanks for responding Dave. Turned out to be 'just' a crappy cylinder: the Chinese haven't mastered everything yet. Managed to get a miniature camera inside to see what was going on. The primary coils are 10mm microbore tightly coiled in a 4" 'drainpipe' up the centre of the cylinder, with hole...
by badger
Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:22 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Minute Amount of hot water produced in new cylinder....ideas
Replies: 2
Views: 3219

Minute Amount of hot water produced in new cylinder....ideas

I bought a solar heating system that included a 150 litre steel ('glass' lined) tank intended for unvented use. Because of its origin me and my tame Corgi plumber were dubious about using it unvented (it doesn't have all the CE / Kitemark stuff you'd get with a European one, so probably couldn't mee...
by badger
Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:48 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Domestic hot water
Replies: 4
Views: 3833

Turn off the valve on the cold water inlet to the tank. Hot water will then only flow for a few seconds.
by badger
Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:45 pm
Forum: Plumbing Forum
Topic: Hot water cylinder
Replies: 2
Views: 2806

I'm no heating engineer, but I had the same question myself a few days ago... So far as I can tell it's there because your pump is powerful enough to create decent flow through all your radiators. When the CH is off the pump would be exerting too much pressure on the relatively light load of the cyl...
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