Are after-market HW cylinder jackets much of a muchness or do they come in
different grades?

My wife's aunt's cylinder is about 14" in diameter & about 3' high. Never
seen one like it before. At present it has no lagging at all but as it
doesn't get used much, it's not quite the financial disaster you might
imagine. ;-)

Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Tim

Tim Downie wrote on 20/08/2009 :
Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Tim

Yes, don't buy one.

Make sort sort of box, which doesn't cover/allows free airflow around
the immersion heater head (if it has one). Make it at least 2" wider
all the way around and fill the space with insulation. Much more
effective than a jacket.

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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Tim Downie wrote on 20/08/2009 :
Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Tim

Yes, don't buy one.

Make sort sort of box, which doesn't cover/allows free airflow around
the immersion heater head (if it has one). Make it at least 2" wider
all the way around and fill the space with insulation. Much more
effective than a jacket.

And if you can't do that, buy 2 of the thickest jackets you can get and
overlap them all round the tank, twice.

Gordon

Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Tim Downie wrote on 20/08/2009 :
Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Tim

Yes, don't buy one.

Make sort sort of box, which doesn't cover/allows free airflow around
the immersion heater head (if it has one). Make it at least 2" wider
all the way around and fill the space with insulation. Much more
effective than a jacket.

Good idea but as the tank is 250 miles from my house and as up until the
present, the owner hasn't noticed the lack of any lagging, probably not
going to happen.

Tim

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Tim Downie"
saying something like:

Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Wrap it first in a mylar 'space blanket' and then with an old duvet.
Much better than the vast majority of the tank lagging jackets on the
market.

On 20 Aug, 20:13, "Tim Downie" wrote:
Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Squirty foam!

Owain

On Aug 20, 8:31*pm, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:
Tim Downie wrote on 20/08/2009 :

Any tips on cylinder jackets?

Tim

Yes, don't buy one.

Make sort sort of box, which doesn't cover/allows free airflow around
the immersion heater head (if it has one). Make it at least 2" wider
all the way around and fill the space with insulation. Much more
effective than a jacket.

Yet another option... if its in a small airing cupboard, the walls can
serve as 3 of your box sides, fill all the space with whatever
insulation you've got around. Dont insulate over the electrical wires
though. If you have no insulation, you will, it turns up in pretty
much all kitchen bins.


NT