vented cylinder

Hi Guys Looking for a bit of advice. Been asked to replace boilers on two separate systems, both are open vented heating systems with open vented hot water cylinder, one with a baxi backboiler the other with a vulcan floor standing atmospheric. In both situations a replacement boiler would need...

any way i can combine these, customer want to put a undersink water heater so he can switch immersion off and only get instant how water in the kitchen sink (he has electric shower) anybody got any idea if this can be done without using 3 taps, i told him he might have to switch off some lever...

Hi, I am having my bathroom refurbished and had some builders in for a quotes. As part of the refurb, we want to install a mixer shower that requires at least 0.5bar. We have a standard gravity fed system (water tank in a loft) with indirect vented HW cylinder (in the airing cupboard in master...

Hi all, Quick question as I'm quoting a boiler install. Has anyone installed a Viessmann system boiler on a vented hot water cylinder and piped as a 4 pipe using the hot water thermostat probe cut into the foam insulation. As i understand you wont need a 2 port valve as the hot water is...

I am not a plumber so just looking advice before I get a plumber in to do some work. I have holiday apartments in Blackpool and the hot water for the sinks comes from a vented copper cylinder heated by an immersion heater!!! All apartments have electric showers so it is only hot water to the...

I would to change hot water system in my flat and the only solution plumbers give me to get rid of cylinder+tank is vented cylinder (I want also have more space into the storage that's why I do not want another unvented system). I have only electricty at the flat. My question is, assuming the...

Hello everybody. Could somebody please tell me why it is necessary to offset the vent pipe by 450mm directly off the top of an open vented cylinder. Iv heard its to "prevent one pipe circulation" what exactly does that mean? Thank you.

Good evening Pipework connecting to a vented cylinder, 22mm compression fittings, do any of you use jointing compound?

Does anybody make them, not having any luck with local suppliers?

Joined a firm who does solar thermal & PV, so a newbie at the green stuff As above it was an oppen vented cylinder + solar therm + boiler. The experienced Installer who Im working under wanted me to fit the TMV on the hot outlet of the cylinder before the open vent pipe. I was confused at...

Hi all, I'm new to this forum, so please excuse me if this has come up before. We have moved into a our new, and one of the first jobs is to replace the pumped electric shower with a thermostatic shower. The house has a pretty new Valiant combi boiler, but I'd like to install a hot water...

So after removing a vented hot water cylinder earlyier in the week i decided to see what pressure this type of cylinder would hold before splitting... The pics tell the story really but the sound it made when exploding was wheyyy louder than i was expecting even!!! At just 2.5 bar the...

Hi there, In my bathroom I currently have a direct vented cylinder (114 ltrs). It is separate from the main heating/hot water system for the main house. It feeds a power shower ( run off a pump that delivers 9 Ltrs a minute @ 3 bar) and a set of taps I'm putting in a larger cylinder (280...

Hi All, Right.....Here's the problem Moved into a house a few months ago and have a hot water storage problem in the top bathroom. The main house is fed by a conventional heating sysyem and works fine. The top bathroom was added later so is fed differently. It uses a direct heated hot...

has anyone using these cylinders they have a fast recovery and are cheaper than the megalife vented cylinder, just wondering would there be much difference in the recovery time???

Trying to find upper 3KW immersion and timer for 3 X 1KW immersion heaters (lower cylinder) for a Spa 87 unvented cylinder(Omega???). On the side of the cylinder it had a Warwick address, but the phone lines dead.Any help greatly appreciated.:confused:

any body ever fitted an un vented cylinder in a block of flats ,11 floors up ,no way to get discharge out ,have heard a romour about mechanical trap and soil vent pipe.

as titel really - i normally charge 60 for service of any appliances, 90 for back boilers. but i was recently asked to service an unvented cylinder with electric element - so its just the safety aspects, and the pressure vessel check. now the apartment complex is new and the lad said to me...

This is on in Coventry next week (28th and 29th October 2010). I'm going, which probably now means everyone else won't be going!! You can register online (for free). Not sure what this does but if it knocks a few pennies of the entrance fee or something similar it might be worth it. I...

Hi All, I have a customer who has a small Santon Premier Unvented Cylinder, they would like to swap this for a larger unit so that they can have more hot water. The problem is that all new cylinders appears to have the various connections on the side and not the top (like there current one...