Expansion vessel - not ugly

[Scott_D]

Looking for a small additional expansion vessel for a heating system to go next to a combi as there are a few big column rads in the house.
Ideally not something ugly so the standard red type is out.

I have seen some online pictures of a compact almost like a squashed football but no idea of the brand.
Any ideas?

 

[Harvest Fields]

Looking for a small additional expansion vessel for a heating system to go next to a combi as there are a few big column rads in the house.
Ideally not something ugly so the standard red type is out.

I have seen some online pictures of a compact almost like a squashed football but no idea of the brand.
Any ideas?

Thought they had to be red for the heating circuit?

 

[Scott_D]

Not as far as I know, I have fitted other colours that are for heating

It's more I need something that I can fit neatly above the boiler

 

[Harvest Fields]

Not as far as I know, I have fitted other colours that are for heating

It's more I need something that I can fit neatly above the boiler

Vaillant ones are grey but they are inside the boiler. Learn something new every day here

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Have a look at imi heating

 

[Scott_D]

That's the little beauty

 

[Harvest Fields]

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That's the little beauty

How are they not ugly?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

How are they not ugly?

Come with a little blue cover

 

[Ric2013]

Radiator spray paint? Then it'll be white and shiny!

 

[Best]

As it is an additional expansion vessel on the system - can you not just add it elsewhere to the system, - like in an airing cupboard?

 

[Scott_D]

Usually I would put it in the AC or a robo kit in a cupboard but this isn't your average house

 

[Harvest Fields]

View attachment 34079 Usually I would put it in the AC or a robo kit in a cupboard but this isn't your average house

Lovely????

 

[Ric2013]

Looks familiar...

EDIT - Though this is actually a CWSC I had to leave in place as it doubled as the flush cistern for the toilet on the floor below, via a valve on the flush pipe. At least now it only feeds the WC.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Looks familiar...
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EDIT - Though this is actually a CWSC I had to leave in place as it doubled as the flush cistern for the toilet on the floor below, via a valve on the flush pipe. At least now it only feeds the WC.

 

[Ric2013]

That's right. It used to feed all the cold taps except the kitchen, and flush the WC too... and no one got ill, as far as we know!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Who installed the cylinder?

 

[Harvest Fields]

Who installed the cylinder?

Should of been upgraded at the same
Time really.

 

[Ric2013]

I installed the cylinder. The Feed Cistern was separate from the CWSC shown and I did fit a new Combined Feed and Cold Water Storage cistern in the loft. The cistern shown does not, and never has, fed a cylinder.

However, as I understand that a flush valve operated WC is no longer permitted to be installed in domestic settings (if, indeed it ever was), I felt the best course of action was to leave that installation as it was and so nothing on the WC side has been changed.

NB - THE SPEEDFIT TO COIL WAS TEMPORARY, TO ALLOW HOT WATER OVERNIGHT IN PREPARATION FOR A DEDICATED CIRCUIT TO THE DHW CYLINDER! Don't want you to think I'd be happy leaving it like that

What would you have done?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I see thought someone had changed the cylinder and left the feed the same

 

[Ric2013]

God no. This was the feed cistern:

The pipe elbow on the left is the vent, the pipe insulated and covered in string is the gravity feed from a home-made solar panel running direct into the feed cistern, and the ballcock is over on the far side where there is literally no access. (As I said, how on earth do you expect me to service that ballcock when I can't so much as touch it with an extended arm?) Amazingly, there is actually a lid (moved further to the right when I took this picture), but it has a slot cut in it for some obscure reason.

I replaced the cylinder and cistern and commented that the bathroom pipework was restrictive but we'd try leaving that for now: the hot water flow increased from 6l/min to 14l/m at the bath tap and the customer said that was more than good enough for her, plus the water actually gets hot now!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Old school soldered patch as well