Hello,
I have a hot water cylinder in an all electric flat. It is an e7 set-up with storage heaters etc.
The hot water cylinder itself is only heated by a single immersion heater located at the bottom. The tank is quite tall, maybe around 1.3m. One odd thing I have noticed is that the tank has a simple flat top with an ill fitting copper lid. This lid is easily removable and exposes the interior, eater an all. I cannot see into it as the tank is above head height, but I can feel the water if I carefully put my hand in over the top.
I estimate that the tank is quite old. It works fine but has a poorly fitted jacket aroud it. I am going to fix it on properly with some better straps.
I was wondering if I can either improve the insulation of the lid (or locate a replacement lid, with insulation (unlikely given the age of the tank).
I can find no examples of this type of cylinder design online so I was hoping others have come across it.
It it somthing to do with the fact that there are no expansion tanks elsewhere in the flat or building so it is built into the cylinder? Therefore the top part of the cylinder is an expansion tank of some sort?
http://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/product/albion-mainsflo-mf25-140-c-p-dir-combi-l/
Is somthing like that the modern equivalent?
I have a hot water cylinder in an all electric flat. It is an e7 set-up with storage heaters etc.
The hot water cylinder itself is only heated by a single immersion heater located at the bottom. The tank is quite tall, maybe around 1.3m. One odd thing I have noticed is that the tank has a simple flat top with an ill fitting copper lid. This lid is easily removable and exposes the interior, eater an all. I cannot see into it as the tank is above head height, but I can feel the water if I carefully put my hand in over the top.
I estimate that the tank is quite old. It works fine but has a poorly fitted jacket aroud it. I am going to fix it on properly with some better straps.
I was wondering if I can either improve the insulation of the lid (or locate a replacement lid, with insulation (unlikely given the age of the tank).
I can find no examples of this type of cylinder design online so I was hoping others have come across it.
It it somthing to do with the fact that there are no expansion tanks elsewhere in the flat or building so it is built into the cylinder? Therefore the top part of the cylinder is an expansion tank of some sort?
http://www.plumbcenter.co.uk/product/albion-mainsflo-mf25-140-c-p-dir-combi-l/
Is somthing like that the modern equivalent?
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