hot water cylinder

  1. H

    converting gravity to pumped heating system

    have an old system, large water tank and small f&e tank on loft, hot water cylinder on first floor, boilder on ground floor (Ideal Mexico Super C 125, vintage 1987, works well though had new stat put in recently). Would really like to just change HWC and leave everything else in place, though...
  2. T

    No hot water or heating

    Hi All, Hoping someone might be able to solve this conundrum. I have a hot water cylinder with a boiler. I recently drained the system and washed out the radiators. I have no hot water and no heating. The boiler fires up, the 2x two port valves turn the valve to their open position. The...
  3. CrazeUK

    Economy 7 Hot water cylinder timer

    Hey Guys. I have economy 7 in my Flat - Which seems to work out very expensive (When i have 3 storage heaters on it is around £6 / £8 a day!). I have 3 Storage Heaters (Lounge, Hallway, Bedroom 1). There are also Panel Heaters in the Lounge, bedroom 2 and 3. The hot water comes from a...
  4. H

    Advice re F&E Overflow

    Blocked water supply in house by mistake, then got it back, followed suggested routine, start from highest outlet down, supply restored but since then f&e tank overflows, ever so slightly, occasionally the overflow stops but during 24 hrs about 3-4 buckets collect. Get conflicting advice from...
  5. B

    Unvented cylinder overflow

    We have a hot water tank with the overflow going outside. Ive noticed the ground outside is always wet. I then realised the water is coming from the hot water tank over flow. Its not constant but clearly happens regularly. Our heating is topped up from the small tank in the loft. The hot...
  6. D

    Banging from hot water cylinder - please help

    I bought a flat recently; it’s all electric with no access to the gas network. I had an electric central heating system installed this year. The boiler is Potterton Gold 9Kw and the water cylinder is an Elson Zircon ZD 150 Direct Unvented. There has been banging coming from the cylinder. For...
  7. C

    Immersion size

    My indirect HW cylinder has a top mounted immersion element labelled “Shel CODE XB270”. Does anybody know how long this is? The cylinder says “Max length immersion 760mm”. I suspect that the one fitted is much shorter than this and is only heating the top portion of the cylinder.
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