conventional boiler hot water circuit

[Jerome]

Hi,

Just moved into a new house a few moth ago, It has a conventional boiler (on the ground floor) an hot water tank (on the middle floor).
All the other properties I've lived in had combi boiler, so I am just trying to understand how is a conventional boiler instalation different.

The thing which puzzle me is that the hot water tank is on the middle floor and that there are two hot water taps on the top floor. How does the hot water climb up there?
Does anyone know of any website providing a good explanation of such instalation (boiler, hot water tank, tank in the ceiling, etc...)

I have had a look in the forum and arounfd the net but cannot find what I want.

many thanks in advance


Jerome

 

[weareleeds]

Water tank in loft

 

[ArtfulBodger]

Physics.

 

[Jerome]

Thanks for your answers,

does this means that the hot whater tank is pressured becasue it is directly linked with a cold water tank in the ceiling?
If so, how does the boiler manages to get hot water into it? it would have to be under a greater pressure???

Anyone knows of a place where i can find a general explanation about conventional boiler instalation? I don't want to keep on asking silly questions.

thanks

Jerome

 

[ChrisRoberts]

Stop it now then!

 

[Nige F]

Thanks for your answers,

does this means that the hot whater tank is pressured becasue it is directly linked with a cold water tank in the ceiling?
If so, how does the boiler manages to get hot water into it? it would have to be under a greater pressure???
It`s not a steam boiler in fact it`s a misleading term it`s a heatsource and should not reach the boiling point of water @ any time
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[Jerome]

ChrisRoberts: lol,

but that still doesn't answer my questions

Does anyone know a good webpage explaining the basics of a conventional boiler +hot water cylinder +cold water tank installation, please

J

 

[ricarbo]

there are some diagrams on the heating pages of the 'diyfxit' site, for example. the basic idea is it's filled from tanks in the loft. Any tap will let water out if it's below the tank. so the pipe can go down to the cylinder, then back up to the tap and water will come out the tap even though it's above the cylinder. Same way it goes down the sink trap, round the bend, up the other side and out!