I am planning a total make over of our small bathroom, first job is to remove the tank from the airing cupboard and relocate into the loft, easy I thought, the tank is immersion only and has the cold water header afixed to the body of the tank. Ha I say, Economy 7 direct coupled will do the job.
Then I look closely at the existing tank, now for the confusion !! The existing tank has the usual cold water mains inbound, but two hot outbound and a cold outbound !! Really confusing !! As far as I can tell, one outbound hot and the outbound cold feed the downstairs kitchen, the second outbound hot feeds the downstairs closet(directly below) and the bathroom. The downstairs closet and upstairs bathroom are fed with cold mains.
With my limited knowledge, I understood that all cold feeds should be mains connected.
The house is ex local authority built late 60ies early 70ies.
The immersion has a separate thermometer rod half way up the tank linked to the mains feed to the immersion itself.
What am I trying to do ?? Remove the tank to the loft, rebuild the cupboard to 50% of the existing footprint, remove the bath and fit a walk in shower in its place. I also intend to move the basin and toilet to corner fittings to maximise the space. However, a further little complication for the shower is that the floor joists run across the bathroom floor rather than length ways (would have made life so much simpler) and the shower waste will be at the furthest point from the down pipe (2.5m)which is in the corner on the outside wall. My initial thoughts are that the shower and basin (or toilet if "Her that shall be obeyed decides thats where she would like it" )will have to be raised on a platform, at least 6 inches, to gain the fall to the soil pipe. Did consider running the waste down the wall into the downstairs closet, linking into the basin waste and hence to the soil pipe, yes you are right Not a good idea !! Have visions of the shower water exiting via the basin itself downstairs !!
Assistance would be greatly appreciated on the tank issue, and any suggestions, ideas on the project itself.
Then I look closely at the existing tank, now for the confusion !! The existing tank has the usual cold water mains inbound, but two hot outbound and a cold outbound !! Really confusing !! As far as I can tell, one outbound hot and the outbound cold feed the downstairs kitchen, the second outbound hot feeds the downstairs closet(directly below) and the bathroom. The downstairs closet and upstairs bathroom are fed with cold mains.
With my limited knowledge, I understood that all cold feeds should be mains connected.
The house is ex local authority built late 60ies early 70ies.
The immersion has a separate thermometer rod half way up the tank linked to the mains feed to the immersion itself.
What am I trying to do ?? Remove the tank to the loft, rebuild the cupboard to 50% of the existing footprint, remove the bath and fit a walk in shower in its place. I also intend to move the basin and toilet to corner fittings to maximise the space. However, a further little complication for the shower is that the floor joists run across the bathroom floor rather than length ways (would have made life so much simpler) and the shower waste will be at the furthest point from the down pipe (2.5m)which is in the corner on the outside wall. My initial thoughts are that the shower and basin (or toilet if "Her that shall be obeyed decides thats where she would like it" )will have to be raised on a platform, at least 6 inches, to gain the fall to the soil pipe. Did consider running the waste down the wall into the downstairs closet, linking into the basin waste and hence to the soil pipe, yes you are right Not a good idea !! Have visions of the shower water exiting via the basin itself downstairs !!
Assistance would be greatly appreciated on the tank issue, and any suggestions, ideas on the project itself.