Agile said:gas4you said:what a load of s***. where does your mother live with with 0.5km of pipe, Buckingham Palace. if it is this long then it has been installed under sized or do you not know this
I dont understand why you think it necessary to make such a rude and agressive posting. As it was on a Saturday evening I hope that you were drunk and acting out of character.
This is in the countryside on the edge of a village in Cornwall. The house was supplied from a well but they decided to have the mains water main added when mains water was extended along the lane. Someone laid the 1/2" pipe from the lane to the house about 30 years ago and obviously it was undersized but much of the problem may be because the number of houses on the lane has doubled and old ones been uprated so its probably quite inadequate even at the lane 0.5 km away.
The house was built in 1931 with a flat roof and had a large steel tank with a float valve only half way up. The rain water from the roof went into the tank and if the level fell below the valve then the pumped well filled it halfway. The pumped well was disconnected when the mains water became available.
Tony
I took a great exception to the fact that you were implying to the op that I did not or was not interested in getting a proper answer to his dilemma or that I was not veiwing his problem professionally as it would not be me who would be wasting the £1000 for a new boiler If you had read all my previous posts how could you have come to this conclusion You cannot compare an obviously faulty installation with one that the op is trying to get correct first time
I in fact had assumed it was you who had been drinking as in my opinion it was your post that gave no real relevance or help on a Saturday evening.