Plumbing design for horse washing station...

[RayPlumb]

dead leg? I have done a rough sketch. The dilema is if i do it off mains with instantanious heating, I have a cat 5 back flow to get round. At The moment the cold tank already supplies cat 5 protection.

 

[lame plumber]

main issue is to prevent water being to hot when it gets to horse, they dont like it and only means of informing the owner is hooves or teeth.

 

[RayPlumb]

Will go through Thermostatic valve. What type of horses do you have..? This is for a stud farm, probably just need cold for the stalions although that could be anti productive. ..

 

[Guest123]

I've kept horses and the temperature should be tepid at best. They love it cold in the hot weather.

Still think you should go with the simpler option.

 

[Dannypipe]

main issue is to prevent water being to hot when it gets to horse, they dont like it and only means of informing the owner is hooves or teeth.

Agreed, I did suggest a thermostatic mixer is installed in an earlier post. This needs to be tepid, not hot!

 

[R1CKY]

I've got a similar project to do soon. Replace instantaneous LPG water heaters with a more reliable set up to feed 5 wash bays for horses. Was thinking of 2 open vent cylinders, both with 2 immersions each. Thermostatic mixing valve a with tank fed cold (obviously) and pump the outlet to the 5 bays. Need to work out some calcs for sizing of cisterns and cylinders though.

 

[Dannypipe]

Dead leg is a length of pipe with no return route. In other words, you will have to draw off a significant amount of water that is in the 50m of pipe before you reach the heated water in the cylinder.

 

[Dannypipe]

Here's another idea.

Showerking Eccotemp CEL5 Portable LPG Propane Gas Tankless Shower 10kW | NoLinkingToThis

 

[RayPlumb]

Thanks seen those tankless showers, are they any good. Saw a post of somone changing system form this to a more reliable one.!Have to wash 5 horses every day. How long would the gas last, Don't want to be changing tank every 2 weeks. Any one use these before

 

[Dannypipe]

I don't personally have any experience of this unit....but seems a very fair price. You could have more than one cylinder, fitted with a change over kit.

 

[lame plumber]

Ive owned horses for years and the last thing Id want in any yard is propane cylinders and heaters like that! my insurers wouldnt be very happy either.