"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:46:39 -0000, "Doctor Drivel"
wrote:


"NikV" wrote in message
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Hi
I've got to gain space in our small bedroom so I want to put the hot
water
tank in the loft, how high above the top of the hot water tank should
the
water surface of the cold water tank be. Has anybody got any links to
sites
with cold water tanks which will fit high up in the ridge - I've
googled
but
can't find anything.
Any advice welcome - ps can't afford to change from the current open
vented
system ATM

Have the kitchen tap off the mains. For the
hot and cold water for the rest of the house
use one of these, as it fits nicely in the loft.
http://www.rcmgroup.co.uk/specialize...ower/index.htm
You can take the shower off it The cold
taps can be taken off it and the
hot taps too giving good mixing at the
basins and bath. It is heated from a
normal system boiler.

Are you certain about that?

Yep.

There are no mention of boiler connections and none are shown....

An indirect version can be specified, with either Part L or quick recovery
coil. Use one of these where you would use a Megaflow and have a combi only
do the shower for high pressures and this is a very cheap way of having high
pressure showers (from the mains), high flows to baths and low pressure
mixing. So, if your mains pressure is 4 Bar it is quite cheap as no £500 4
bar shower pump is required. No annual invented service call, and no high
pressures, that wear out tap washers, ect. Combis are about the same price
as system boiler, so no expensive power shower pumps. Can go anywhere a
Megflow can, as long as it is above the highest draw-off, excepting the
shower.

This one obviously is though...

http://www.rcmgroup.co.uk/specialize...mpak/index.htm

Far more bulky than a cylinder 6 les than foot high.