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Hi.
We have an annexe which has an issue with the length of time that water takes to run hot from the tap.
One of the solutions we are looking at is to install another direct cylinder (approx 112l) closer to the annexe so that hot water is almost instantly available.
My question is whether there are any issues with using our existing hot feed as the supply to the new cylinder. The theory being that there will be 112l of hot water instantly available but if that is all used then there is another x hundred litres (sorry can't remember the main tank stats) available from our primary cylinder. There would be approx 5l of cold water in the pipework before hot water enters the cylinder - that should mix in quite quickly.
The 'main' cylinder has all the necessary mixer/filter controls and essentially the 'second' cylinder is just a storage vehicle. Obviously it will still need a TPV etc but as the feed will already have passed through primary filters etc I can't see that it would need a second one.
That's the issue really, as there could be a problem sending already hot water into the mixer/filter messing with the wax (I think).
Anyone ever done this or has knowledge of building control regs on this?
Your thoughts would be much appreciated.
Dennis
We have an annexe which has an issue with the length of time that water takes to run hot from the tap.
One of the solutions we are looking at is to install another direct cylinder (approx 112l) closer to the annexe so that hot water is almost instantly available.
My question is whether there are any issues with using our existing hot feed as the supply to the new cylinder. The theory being that there will be 112l of hot water instantly available but if that is all used then there is another x hundred litres (sorry can't remember the main tank stats) available from our primary cylinder. There would be approx 5l of cold water in the pipework before hot water enters the cylinder - that should mix in quite quickly.
The 'main' cylinder has all the necessary mixer/filter controls and essentially the 'second' cylinder is just a storage vehicle. Obviously it will still need a TPV etc but as the feed will already have passed through primary filters etc I can't see that it would need a second one.
That's the issue really, as there could be a problem sending already hot water into the mixer/filter messing with the wax (I think).
Anyone ever done this or has knowledge of building control regs on this?
Your thoughts would be much appreciated.
Dennis