Recent content by Madrab

Does the bidet have taps over the top - with an air gap to the bowl - or does it have an ascending spray, upwards from inside the bidet itself? The former is ok, the latter should not be attached to mains water.

Would depend on how it's piped I would guess.

Shouldn't have any impact on heat transfer, though it may add a little cushioning to the wood floor which wouldn't be a bad thing I guess. As suggested though, if the MI specifies it then that's the best approach as they'll have done/got lots of testing/feedback with their product.

You undo and remove the pop up waste metal rod and then unscrew the whole metal underside section. trouble that you may have though is the way the top is cutout underneath, you'll need to unscrew the waste section inside the basin

nothing wrong with a 2mm foam underlay, cant see it causing any issues with heat transfer

They'll just use standard kit for all of their cylinders - rather than different sizes for different widths (volume) of cylinder.

Nope - laminate/engineered wood and real wood flooring can all be laid directly on top of the overlay, as long as it is a high density EPS. Only time you need to use something on top would be if you are going to carpet and things like furniture, tables, point loading etc, then you can use a thin...

If the stack and soil pipe has been fitted correct - I.E. a male end into a downstream female end then as long as the seal is ok then it shouldn't really leak. It would only normally leak if the soil pipe was backing up so the joints were immersed for a length of time before the water ran away...

If there is access to available 'free' energy (ETST system) then would be silly not to use it - increasing the 'heat capacity' of the cylinder by using it as a thermal store then in turn reduces the need to use energy that costs directly at point of use. In effect it's increasing the amount of...

If your primary heat source is the CH and the coil then no - As suggested - you shouldn't ever need to use the immersion if the CH is working. With an indirect system, which yours is, immersion is a backup only and shouldn't every be used unless the CH system fails, it's a huge waste of money.

Most of the overlays would be suitable but it would be down to heat output and whether a 16mm PEX would be used - usually they're an EPS400 board as it's supportive and the engineered wood can sit directly on top.

Yes ... that's why the immersion element(s) in an indirect cylinder are only intended as a stop gap when it's configured as an indirect (heated by CH). When it comes to directly heated cylinders - where the primary heat source is the immersion heaters, then usually the 2 immersion heaters...

Do you mean how the water is heated within the cylinder? That works simply by convection, the coil heats the water it's in contact with by conduction, it rises and displaces the colder water and that circulates down - that water movement then creates a convection current and the water...

Yes you can - but overlay is around 20 odd mm and then the engineered wood is at least another 15mm so you will be well over the 25mm difference you are looking for.

yep - certainly can be coupled with a VRG230 - a 3 port diverter/mid and as it's both a 2 point and 3 point then it'll give more flexibility, controls dependent.