The Natural Philosopher wrote:
ron wrote:
Hi I live in Scotland and was told that using a storage tank in the
loft to feed the cold taps in the bathroom and the hot water tank in
a cupboard in the bedroom was now illegal and that all cold taps now
have to be from the mains. Also that my power shower which is
connected to a T-piece from the feed from the tank supplying the
cold taps was illegal. The hot water feed is te'ed (spelling
punctuation???) from the vent pipe that goes from the hot tank to
the attic. Also illegal?

It was done as per the instructions supplied with the shower but I
am being told these instructions are OK for England but not Scotland.

My hot water is heated by gas hence the power shower.

My house was built in 1991 and I have been told that the
"regulations" would not allow that plumbing system system nowadays.
Am I being told a load of rubbish or is my plumbing system now
illegal?


1/. In england it certainly is not. Mind you ought ought to be..;-)

2/. I am almost 100% sure that no retrospective legislation is ever
applied to any UK building regulations. I.e. there is no requirement
to retrospectively adapt old systems to new regulations unless they
are part of a materials and substantive change.

3/. 'Your boiler* wouldn't meet regulations" is the sort of cry one
hears, but some tradesmen turn that into "your boiler is illegal" and
still others turn that into "and I won't touch it: It will have to be
all replaced".

* substitute unpressurised water or whatever the current tradesman is
conning you into replacing.




Thanks Ron

Ask him to go into the loft and see if there's any dead rats/birds/floating
fibreglass pariticals if its an open tank?

I've done away with tank and fed the cold water direct to the mains, much
cleaner.

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite