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Sorry if I come at this form the wrong direction. I'd like to move my vented-cylinder into the loft. I run two shower-pumps too. I realise a sealed-cylinder is the easy route. Sadly I've not got much mains pressure. Combination boilers don't really have the grunt for fire-hose showers.
I'm hoping it's as simple as buying a vented combination HW cylinder as tall as I can find space for. Then site it as high as possible.
Both with a good wall to sit on, I'd like to site the cylinder in one of two places. Loft height is the issue:
Site A: 8ft of space but right in the midst of the loft, space I want for a loft-conversion.
Site B: 4'6" in a gable-end (out of the way)
Out of the way is B favourite, but minded to trad. systems usually having HW cylinder and CW tank on different levels I question the headroom, at 4'6" in the gable-end.
Minded to shower-pumps, two questions.
1) I realise the CW + F&E traditinally goes far above the waterline of the HW tank, but not why? Do CW + F&E tanks really need to go far above the HW tank? Even back in the day, if the height and insulation is there, why did yesterday's plumbers not put the lot up in the loft?
2) Can I move my vented HW tank to Site B: 4'6" in a gable-end (out of the way).
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I'm hoping it's as simple as buying a vented combination HW cylinder as tall as I can find space for. Then site it as high as possible.
Both with a good wall to sit on, I'd like to site the cylinder in one of two places. Loft height is the issue:
Site A: 8ft of space but right in the midst of the loft, space I want for a loft-conversion.
Site B: 4'6" in a gable-end (out of the way)
Out of the way is B favourite, but minded to trad. systems usually having HW cylinder and CW tank on different levels I question the headroom, at 4'6" in the gable-end.
Minded to shower-pumps, two questions.
1) I realise the CW + F&E traditinally goes far above the waterline of the HW tank, but not why? Do CW + F&E tanks really need to go far above the HW tank? Even back in the day, if the height and insulation is there, why did yesterday's plumbers not put the lot up in the loft?
2) Can I move my vented HW tank to Site B: 4'6" in a gable-end (out of the way).
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