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Position of hot water tank relative to boiler
Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.13 PM
Not getting enough hot water for a bath. Builder says the water tank should be located higher than then boiler to create the pressure to allow the boiler to heat the water. However the tank is half level with the boiler meaning only half of the tank of water gets heated up. Does this make sense? Should have said that it is the hot water cylinder that is half level with the boiler. The header tank is above the cylinder.
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Anonymous user
Hot water on a gravity fed system requires the cold water storage tank (header tank) to be at least 1 metre above the hotwater cylinder. This gives the necessary "head of" water required to pressurise the system.
Answered30 April 2015
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