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| Thread ID: 144033 | 2017-06-13 02:45:00 | Hot Water Cylinder - Boling | ManUFan (7602) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1436462 | 2017-06-13 22:21:00 | Electrician here this morning. Only reason water was coming out the overflow is because the cylinder was boiling. Normally ok. Expect to get a larger than usual power bill next time. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1436463 | 2017-06-14 23:15:00 | Yeah................. Gulp! | ManUFan (7602) | ||
| 1436464 | 2017-06-15 00:47:00 | We miss the "old wet-back" open fire. Had the same overflow problem and plumber put an extra bit of header pipe on the existing roof overflow which fixed this problem. Open fire used to heat the whole house, now have two heat pumps and still sit in a cold draught. Put in double glazing back in April too, along with the new style curtain rails. lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1436465 | 2017-06-15 20:24:00 | Must admit I do like sitting in front of our fire (multi-burner of course - got to burn coal!) and watching the flames. Had open fires when we were kids, remember the 'fairies' (soot burning on the bricks at the back...........) sigh, why do we have to grow up??? LOL |
ManUFan (7602) | ||
| 1436466 | 2017-06-15 22:35:00 | Must admit I do like sitting in front of our fire (multi-burner of course - got to burn coal!) and watching the flames. Had open fires when we were kids, remember the 'fairies' (soot burning on the bricks at the back...........) sigh, why do we have to grow up??? LOL It beats hell out of the only alternative. If you don't grow up there are no memories. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1436467 | 2017-06-15 23:19:00 | Must admit I do like sitting in front of our fire (multi-burner of course - got to burn coal!) and watching the flames. Had open fires when we were kids, remember the 'fairies' (soot burning on the bricks at the back...........) sigh, why do we have to grow up??? LOL ...........Open coal fires in Brum during the 40s and 50s....those were the days.........choking fog/smog....bronchitis, chest infections, ear aches as a kid, listening to the drone of German planes and bombs dropping on a cold foggy November night trying to find ones way to the shelter..........groping ones way home from work on a motorbike being followed by a string of cars who couldn't see where they were going.... blow your nose on a handkerchief and it looked like you had cleaned a piece of coal......... ah sigh, those were the days :clap |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1436468 | 2017-06-16 00:25:00 | Its a plumbing job and you may find they do electrical too. I know Laser Plumbing does. Do you know if its a low pressure or mains cylinder? The overflow does not generally mean it's boiling over, it could mean the pressure of the water has increased which pushes the water above the head level of the cylinder. That could be the flow regulator which is normally under the house where the cylinder is. Either way, get a plumber in and let them sort it, and if your hot water pressure isn't too great, see if they can do something about that too. Don't think you can have a wetback with a mains pressure cylinder. |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1436469 | 2017-06-16 23:21:00 | We are mains pressure and there was a reducing valve, in the shape of a miniature "flying saucer", about 10" diameter. That's all gone now after the 2011 quakes and we have gas hot water supply, with reducing valve on shower head. Still liked the old setup, but never mind, have to get used to it, just like the heat pumps. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1436470 | 2017-06-17 04:25:00 | In the dim dark ages of power-cuts, car-less days, and all the other drama, my environmental instincts came to the fore, (Maybe it was Necessity being the Mother of Invention) so I addressed this problem. I designed a system of "Solar Heating" and "Fire Wet-back" that would solve the issue of heating my water. In short, I built a quite standard Wet-Back for the fire, and Solar Water Panel for the Roof. The trick was to pump the water and not allow any reverse convectional currents. This in turn involved one way valves, thermostats, and pumps. Then came the hard part. I ran the design past a couple of Council Engineers, and you wouldn’t believe it, but it was illegal. :eek: You weren’t allowed one way valves, and you weren’t allowed to switch 230v with an automobile sensor switch. Well, switching 230v on the roof with a automotive sensor switch was a bit dodgy, so I changed to a 12 volt caravan pump and only switched 12v. The one-way valves were of no consequence, other being illegal, because if they stuck open, what the hell, and if they stuck shut, we had a system failure with no consequence other than a cold shower if you’d turned off the power to your cylinder. And the bottom line was 5+ years later I sold the place and paid sweet F/A for water heating meantime. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1436471 | 2017-06-18 21:56:00 | Speaking of heatpumps.... Friend bought a near new house in canterbury. Her husband wanted modern, no firewood etc. That lasted 2 years, her power bills were huge, house not warm, and she got a woodburner installed. Now they have firewood (albeit they buy it chopped) and she is warm and happy. The heatpump is only used now for instance, fire out, chilly so it's on until the fire gets going. She did get a heat exchange as well to feed the heat down the other end of the house, those I do think are good with woodburners. The one we had down South, lounge would get up to 32 degrees. Now you read advice on heatpumps and they say keep it around 20 ish. Husband says that's too cold for him! |
pctek (84) | ||
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