Hi all,
My sisters just moved into a terraced house and is having problems with the heating.
The house has a baxi back boiler behind a has fire, and a water tank in the loft.
Most of the rads are single panel units with 10mm pipework.
She has problems with getting a use able amount of hot water, if she puts the immersion heater on she can get enough hot water for half a bath, the fire doesn't seem to heat the water much.
I've had a look in the loft, there's some insulation between the rafters but as shown there's nothing around the tank or pipework so I suspect most of the heat trying to heat the water is going straight out the roof.
What's the best way to insulate the tank? I'm thinking maybe a few sheets of 100mm celotex to form a box around it and foil tape all the joins, the foam tubes for the pipes?
Thanks
Chris
My sisters just moved into a terraced house and is having problems with the heating.
The house has a baxi back boiler behind a has fire, and a water tank in the loft.
Most of the rads are single panel units with 10mm pipework.
She has problems with getting a use able amount of hot water, if she puts the immersion heater on she can get enough hot water for half a bath, the fire doesn't seem to heat the water much.
I've had a look in the loft, there's some insulation between the rafters but as shown there's nothing around the tank or pipework so I suspect most of the heat trying to heat the water is going straight out the roof.
What's the best way to insulate the tank? I'm thinking maybe a few sheets of 100mm celotex to form a box around it and foil tape all the joins, the foam tubes for the pipes?
Thanks
Chris