On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:04:36 GMT, "Mike Hibbert"
wrote:


My question is (after all this rambling), assuming there is enough space up
there, what is the best way forward? I would want a reasonable size cold
water tank, (screwfix do some long shallow ones which are only 19 inches
high), so this would probibit making a nice likket access panel.

My two options are take the ceiling down and then rebuild, this would leave
no access to the loft space if I needed it again. Or remove part of the roof
and drop it in.

Both sound fairly big jobs to me!

Any ideas on which is better, shorter or more correct?

Any other thoughts??

Cheera again

Mike


Have a look at www.polytank.co.uk

I am pretty sure that they are the suppliers to Screwfix.

At any rate, I bought one of their "coffin" tanks to replace a rather
poor circular one that the original builders had used. A nice
product as long as you throw away the cheap ball valve that they
supply and use a Fluidmaster or Torbeck.

There are a variety of shapes and sizes in their range.

One thing that you might be able to do that I did at a previous house
where the shape of the roofspace was an issue was to fit two smaller
than normal tanks and link them together.

They must be at the same height of course, but then you put the float
valve into one and the outlets into the other and connect the two
using a piece of 28mm pipe between two tank connectors located near
the bottom. You should really have an overflow from both, but
definitely not just the second tank in case the link becomes blocked
and the float valve fails.

This all worked very effectively



..andy

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