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It's measured from both the kitchen tap (near stopcock) and also at an outside tap. The flow seems identical at both locations. I'm not rural. I guess I should ask some neighbours if theirs is the same. However since posting the above I've found the utility room tap is closer to 10L a...

Perhaps I'm better off keeping the vented setup and finding somewhere to relocate the tank or fit a vertical tank instead.

Actually I have no idea - I just searched again and it's more common to see 15 or even 20L/min.

We are considering a loft conversion which may require removal of the cold water tank. However I've read that water pressure should be at least 10 litres per minute for something like a Megaflo and having measured ours a few times, it's only about 6 or 7 litres a minute. Are there any...

I recently refitted the bathroom and the soil stack is all tiled in. However I think I may be able to access the bath overflow's vertical pipe and T into that - which would then result in the AC draining to the 'safe' side of the bath's own P trap.

I did consider that but I wondered if the same thing would happen and it would make the noise of letting air out of a balloon instead of the whale song noise :) The internal HepVo valve design actually looks like a Whoopie Cushion valve and there are reports of hepvo valves making farting...

I have a bedroom air conditioning unit which drains water to the bath waste pipe via a tundish valve (this was my idea - not the A/C installers as I didn't want them to run a huge white pipe down the front of my house). It works perfectly for the purposes of the A/C to drain condensate but...

It's a girl :) OK I better up my game!

Thanks Madrab. There are only two of us in the house at the moment but I don't want to fit something which doesn't eventually scale when our baby arrives in a few months. That said I think the chances of all three people needing to shower at the exact same time is pretty negliable. I would plan...

Can a high pressure cylinder fit in an airing cupboard where the old tank was or are they a lot larger?

Its from 1996 so not too old. It seems to all be 22mm or 28mm everywhere I can see pipework, except for one run to a single hot tap.

It's a 4 bed house with 3 showers though, so I wasn't sure a combi would be "gutsy" enough for that?

What would the pressure need to be? I have a pressure gauge I bought when there was a temporary loss of pressure many years ago.

I'm considering a loft conversion in my house as as part of adding an extension. However right in the dead centre of the most useful space, are the two tanks for cold water and central heating. If I have an open vented setup, what is the least I can do to convert to mains pressure and remove...

Yeah that's what we decided to do in the end. It only got worse that day and started smelling of hot oil so we had to switch it off. It's now on the driveway awaiting a swap out :)