putting tank in loft!!

[Ermintrude]

Un vented or a pump

 

[tamz]

As for why would you do it. If any of you have ever lived in a house with a gravity fed shower you would appreciate every foot matters. It doesn't matter a fuvk with the taps.
Personally i'd throw the tank in the bin and fit an unvented or a combi is cheaper to run.
No need to go around like the cobblers bairns.

 

[WaterTight]

As for why would you do it. If any of you have ever lived in a house with a gravity fed shower you would appreciate every foot matters. It doesn't matter a fuvk with the taps.
Personally i'd throw the tank in the bin and fit an unvented or a combi is cheaper to run.
No need to go around like the cobblers bairns.

So basically a tank raised in a loft is only ever there to turn a really rubbish shower into a vaguely alright shower?

 

[lambchop]

It's the way you sell it to them
it will be like standing underneath a Balinese waterfall

 

[tamz]

So basically a tank raised in a loft is only ever there to turn a really rubbish shower into a vaguely alright shower?

Thats about it

 

[tamz]

It's the way you sell it to them
it will be like standing underneath a Balinese waterfall

If you fill a couple of buckets lol

 

[rocketmanbkk]

1 bar of pressure for every 10 metres. You maybe able to raise it a couple of metres depending how high your loft space is so a possible increase of 0.1 bar for every metre increase in height. Could be wrong as doing this off the top of my head mate

You're not wrong

 

[wattsie1987]

I seem to do this when a fortic and CWS are in the loft together feeding a pump and the hot ends up back feeding the cold through the shower valve. Some people just done get water levels and seem to think it'll be OK.

 

[Ermintrude]

If it's an elson type

Yes mild difference. If cylinder just lift headder tank and Decaale flanges

 

[jase158]

I have power shower so not needed for shower
kitchen hot basin hot and cold and bath hot and cold all really slow, (liveable)
toilet is slow to fill!! Needs sorting!!

So from what has been said it is pointless putting in loft as won't increase much!!
But I will be doing this anyway just to get rid of tank from airing cupboard!!
then the only issue is toilet!! So may put all colds on mains to increase pressure to cold on bath and basin!! Or just connect toilet to mains!!

Obviously power shower on tank and hot cylinder!!

Thanks for your help guys!!

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

going from 0.1bar to 0.5bar is a 5x increase

But for the time and effort to raise it I would vote a pump, whole house jobby, or redirect cold feeds to come from mains and shower pump

If you're taking it out of the airing cupboard for space then its not too much more effort to raise it when you site it in the loft

 

[Nostrum]

Sounds like you've got the wrong taps for the system!

 

[jase158]

Sounds like you've got the wrong taps for the system!

Didn't really want to go into this much detail, but your right, old taps, limescaled like mad!!!
old steel pipe probably lime scaled like mad!!
but all under bath, so hard to get out!!

 

[stevetheplumber]

i disagree i moved my tank up about 6 ft and it made a lot of differencethis was years ago and ive gone to mains fed now which is obviously great but if your stuck with gravity it will be the difference between unusable and usable