Hi hoping for a little bit of advice i am a plumber but have come to a little bit of mental block on plumbing up this.
I Have a five bathrooom house With 22kw of Radiators and 19kw underfloor heating. To connect to the cylinder the underfloor heating will need to be off a heat exchanger will...
Hi, I need some help.
Stored hot water regs apply to 15 litres of stored hot water or above. So if you have a unvented hot-water system with less than 15 litres including the pipework, which incorporates a secondary recirculation pump. Do you have incorporate in to the design a expansion vessel...
Hi all.
In need of some advice......
I have a customer who's boiler was classified unsafe. The existing system was a heat only boiler feeding a thermal store with no Y plan or S plan etc. My priory was to isolate the system, flush it and replace the boiler before Christmas. The issue I have...
One of my plumbing customers experiences a gradual small leak of the
heat transfer liquid over a month or two.
Eventually it stops working and they have to get it re-pressurised by
their installer - its several years old now and they say the liquid is quite
expensive. Is this usual and can...
Hello all,
I have been a member for a while but fresh to posting.
I am a plumber with 5yrs experience, qualifications in hot and cold water and licences unvented for your info.
This is the first time I have come across this type of setup in a house so require advice on my action plan.
The type...
Hi just new to this forum so Hope somebody can help. I have a customer who has an old floor mounted conventional gas boiler. He is wanting to renew to a condensing system boiler with unvented cylinder. He is looking at the possibility of adding solar thermal at a later date so is wanting the...
thanks for your time for reading this...
** The situation
There's a reasonably good gas Baxi back boiler that gravity-feeds a very old hot water tank in an airing cupboard on the landing, header and expansion tanks directly above in the loft. Central heating controller is a Honeywell 7 day...
One of my customers has a thermal store. He was going to have me rip it out and put a combi in but now he's split up with his missus and just wants me to replace the Ideal Classic in his garage that feeds it so he can sell the place quick.
I know how they work but I can count on one hand the...
gents, this is probably worth a punt.
Does anybody know of a thermal store cylinder(150 litre) that has nt got the sprayed on insulation on show
i.e the customer wants to look at a shiny white case.
The only one I know of is the mega bucks elson aquanox.
I would nt entertain a pullsar coil...
Any one had the problem solar not heating up or going to stagnation thermistor out of calibration? Check system fluid if over 5years old my need flushing out.
Hello
I have bought a house with 3 acres of forest and am trying to find a way to utilise this to maximal effect regards CH +/- HW. The house currently has a solar and Worcester 24Ri gas system going into a 2 coil hot water cylinder.
My question is would I be best with a thermal store and...
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I'm new to this forum and would appreciate some advise/ pointing in the right direction for a horizontal or short vented thermal store. A customer has 4 bathrooms, 24 radiators and 2 UFH zones and wants to upgrade his system(currently a baxi regular boiler 36kw and a standard vented...
Looking for a solution here, anyone any ideas?
We've got a cllent that has a combi boiler that can't take pre-heated water, no room in the property for a new unvented cylinder so can't convert the combi to a system boiler, and we've got a vented thermal store that gets intermittently heated...
Hi all. I would really appreciate some good advice here instead of comments like - what have you let yourself in for etc.
I'm doing a powerflush tomorrow on a system with a BoilerMate2 Thermal heat store.
It is the one with the F&E tank sitting on top of the cylinder. The expansion pipe...
Hi i would like some other plumbers advice who have had good experience with solid fuel and gravity installations. I have just fitted a 300 litre thermal store in a customers new house. The thermal store is upstairs in the hot press and the wood burner downstairs. This house however has...
Hi,
I'm fairly new to this world and am buying an old farmhouse on which I want to put some renewable energy sources.
Initially I am just going to have solar PV on the roof and a wood fired backboiler in the lounge in addition to a standard gas boiler (Potterton - non combi). Having had a...
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I have a new central heating system installed maybe 18 months ago, have had the issue from start, the installer cannot figure it out much to his (and my) frustration and has now retired.
including a Newark thermal store working with a Worcester Bosch 24ri regular boiler (also...
Hello! First post here and advice needed! I installed a 210 litre RM Cylinders thermal store into my house 9 months ago with a 8kW solid fuel stove and underfloor heating. Also connections for a future GS heat pump and solar panels.
Last Thursday I drained it down and replaced the stove with a...