Water tank on period conversion building - getting rid?

[jmedwards]

Hi

A large water tank which we believe serves other flats in the building sits on our roof, which is demised to us and is our responsibility. This water tank makes maintaining the roof difficult, and if there was an opportunity to remove the tank before we resurface the roof, that'd be ideal.

There are give pipes and taps coming out of the water tank, which I presume serve other flats.

I have some questions which the property freeholder has been unable to answer:

1) May the water tank have been installed because of pressure issues?
2) Is getting rid of the water tank and replacing it with a direct supply a feasible or easy job?

Thanks, pictures below.

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• jmedwards
• 17 Apr 2013
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• jmedwards
• 17 Apr 2013
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[neiltheplumber]

You need to find out what the tank is feeding. Once you find out then you need to know if what it feeds can be converted to mains. For example the tank might feed the toilets in the flats, in which case they could be converted to mains quite easily. If the tank feeds all cold water outlets in th flat then it would involve more work. Even more work if it feeds hot water cylinders as these would need replacing. Also to consider is wether the water mains pressure and flow is enough to feed all the flats if converted to mains?

 

[dann09]

As neilplumber wisely said, first find out who else is involved.
I counted five stop-taps so perhaps five flats are being fed from the tank?

1. Pressure might be the issue.
2. As above, if it's legally and technically "feasible" then it might be far from "easy".

Perhaps there's a paper record of when and why it was installed? Or some older flatowner will remember details?

Be interesting to see how it turns out.

 

[HERTS P&D]

In a word.......No.

That tank is not going anywhere. Too many flats and not enough pressure to put everyone on a direct feed, let alone change everyone's hot water cylinders.

Andy

 

[neiltheplumber]

Anything is possible - at a price!

 

[Whitespirit66]

Anything is possible - at a price!

No doubting that, but the OP will more than likely need deep pockets.

 

[neiltheplumber]

At this point nobody has enough info to give a precise detail of work to be carried out with the amount of info given at this point.