Increasing water flow upstairs

keystone

So out of frustration then. But the way your post reads you "know better than absolutely everyone". Perhaps an amendment or a little "sorry" would be appropriate. CH has gone back on his holidays already.

Cheers

drummer_666

sorry my electric cut out when I was trying to reply

i wasn't aiming it at people on here or trades people in general, mainly at the plumber who has ballsed it all up

as i said i love this forum and i see a lot of your names popping up answering my other threads and the comments are invaluable. hopefully i have or will help you with advice about something at sometime

Canucklehead

Hi Drummer.

Thanks

GSR.

unclebulgaria

Im going to be a smart a rse
http://www.home-boost.co.uk/where.html

You can now boost mains water with a pump.

drummer_666

unclebulgaria wrote: »

Im going to be a smart a rse
http://www.home-boost.co.uk/where.html

You can now boost mains water with a pump.

lol, someone beat you to that link a few hours ago.

also, that's the pump i have fitted and the water flow from the mains supply isn't good enough for that

unclebulgaria

yeah I just saw!!! Damn. lol
Oh well its there if anyone wants a look.

southcoastrgi

Drummer has already promised me an apple pie when her oven is working lol

keystone

Sorry but I don't understand why its necessary to install a completely new boiler on Monday or at an other time (unless this one is undersized). There are two options as I see it (both of which I mentioned earlier but deleted one as nobody bit).

1. Use the existing boiler but feed it via a 50 gallon CWST in the roof and a single impellor pump to give the Combi a decent pressure cold water feed. Use the boost pump (not currently working satisfactoriuly due to poor installation) on the riser to the tank if necessary for tank replenishment.

2. Use the existing boiler for heat only (assuming theres nothing spectacular about this one which prevents its use in this way) with CWST and booster as before and a HW cylinder. Perhaps keep one tap (eg kitchen) fed directly by the boiler to continually exercise that side of the beastie to a certain extent.

1 has got to be cheaper than 2 and both have to be cheaper than a second completely new boiler with CWST and cylinder which doesn't strike me as being very MSE at all.

Go on then. Free for any or all to shoot me down if neither of the above options is viable. I've got broad shoulders.

Cheer

PS Do I get pie too?

unclebulgaria

keystone wrote: »

Sorry but I don't understand why its necessary to install a completely new boiler on Monday or at an other time (unless this one is undersized). There are two options as I see it (both of which I mentioned earlier but deleted one as nobody bit).

1. Use the existing boiler but feed it via a 50 gallon CWST in the roof and a single impellor pump to give the Combi a decent pressure cold water feed. Use the boost pump (not currently working satisfactoriuly due to poor installation) on the riser to the tank if necessary for tank replenishment.

2. Use the existing boiler for heat only (assuming theres nothing spectacular about this one which prevents its use in this way) with CWST and booster as before and a HW cylinder. Perhaps keep one tap (eg kitchen) fed directly by the boiler to continually exercise that side of the beastie to a certain extent.

1 has got to be cheaper than 2 and both have to be cheaper than a second completely new boiler with CWST and cylinder which doesn't strike me as being very MSE at all.

Go on then. Free for any or all to shoot me down if neither of the above options is viable. I've got broad shoulders.

Cheer

PS Do I get pie too?

I thought the break tank would have been a better idea too but, if they bring the old CWST back into use and use the non working rising main pump to feed it wont she still have the problem she mentioned, namely, she isn't getting the required flow and the pump didn't improve it? Or did i read that wrong?

keystone

unclebulgaria wrote: »

I thought the break tank would have been a better idea too but, if they bring the old CWST back into use and use the non working rising main pump to feed it wont she still have the problem she mentioned, namely, she isn't getting the required flow and the pump didn't improve it? Or did i read that wrong?

Sorry - I meant use a second pump to beef up the output of the CWST to the combi so that its geting high pressure and flow rate. In a way its treating the combi like a pumped shower but cold only. The new Salamander device was plumbed in incorrectly it seems and I thought perhaps if the feed to the tank needed upping a bit for replenishment purposes it could be used on the riser. But that then reintroduces CHs concern about the affect on supply to the other 19 houses. On could argue that thats their problem but that might be a bit uncaring.

Cheers