vented cylinder

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    Vented Cylinder, no Tap Isolation Valves

    I need to change an upstairs bathroom tap which doesn’t have any isolation valves at the moment. The cold supply is direct from the mains, for which there is an electric cut-off valve - if I can turn off the fill valve from the cold water feed tank to vented tank, will the lack of flow mean that...
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    Hybrid vent system

    Hello All, Just wanted to get some feedback on a system design I came up with. I understand that in a vented system the water in the tank should remain below 20 degrees to prevent legionella but it never made sense why you would route the hot water vent pipe back into the tank. I took...
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    Shower power booster installation

    Hi, I have a dilemma. I have ordered a shower booster pump and the installation instructions state to install after the vent pipe but as you can see from the pic it looks as if the main hot water pipe from the top of the cylinder has been tee'd twice not including the tee with the vent pipe. I...
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    Boosting pressure for unvented cylinder (or stick to vented...)

    Hello all. [following is the edited version as apparently the original had too many words...]. My incoming supply is rubbish. I've looked into improving it through Thames Water and the management company of my flats, but I'm stuck with a little less than 1 bar (second floor flat), and a flow...
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    Temperamental Hot Water Flow, Vented Cylinder

    Having ongoing problems with a lack of hot water flow from both ground and first floor taps - it’s a basic vented cylinder system, cylinder is fed from the cold water tank in an attic; all the cold taps upstairs and down off the mains, the attic cold tank appears to directly supply only the...
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