Huge long shot but can anyone identify this water tank or give a rough age?

halfone

Not sure whether this will help or not but I have the same sort of cylinder (with the green coated insulation) only a bit bigger. My house was built in 1995 and I have economy 10 with a top (instant) and a bottom (economy 10) heating element.

When I moved in 5 years ago my hot water was not working at all. After various experiments I called out a heating engineer and he drained down the tank completely. He had to replace both elements as they were corroded so badly they'd snapped. He said the hot water system probably hadn't been used for some time.

Biggles

Watertankquery wrote: »

I am claiming rent paid for every week that there wasn't hot water nor heating minus the first week in order to be reasonable.

This (post #18) was the first time you mentioned having no heating. The cylinder and immersion heater only supply hot water. What happened to the heating? What system do you have?

Watertankquery

Economy 7 storage heaters and on moving in both the radiators and hot water cylinder weren't working!

Btw out of curiosity can anyone date the storage heaters?

imgur.com/a/N5xwS

DaftyDuck

Both would primarily have been heated by the same electrical source - economy 7. Therein lies the likely problem.

And solution.


Drip... drip.... drip.....

getmore4less

Bet it started working once someone worked out how to turn it on.

Watertankquery

Very helpful

Nope the fuses had been blown and when they were replaced it blew again and so on until the thermostat was replaced and something in the radiators was also replaced.

knightstyle

Well it probably wasn't fuses that blew more like the RCD that covered the off peak distribution board.
Also the bit in the storage heaters that was replaced was probably the thermal protection that disconnects the heater when it overheats usually caused by covering it with towels or similar for drying.
If you are going to take the LL to court you really need to get the terminology right and be sure what happened or the defence will tear you to bits and you will have to pay their considerable costs.

getmore4less

Watertankquery wrote: »

Very helpful

Nope the fuses had been blown and when they were replaced it blew again and so on until the thermostat was replaced and something in the radiators was also replaced.

You need is a report from those that did those fixes.

Mind you if that(bold) was happening they were not testing before replacing the fuse.


The other person you could look for is the previous tenant.

Watertankquery

Okay here's what I think happened:

Occupied the flat in January after previous tenant had vacated in the summer. The flat had been unoccupied for six months and was not checked nor cleaned during the time it was vacant. The previous tenant had perhaps overheated the storage heaters by drying clothes on them but that's uncertain.

What is certain is that on taking the tenancy of the property both storage heaters and the hot water cylinder weren't working. The landlord was extremely aggressive and at first refused to believe that the property wasn't clean and that their wasn't heating or hot water.

She eventually after 8 days sent someone. He replaced the fuses on the radiators but they broke again that night and he did something to the to water cylinder which failed to work. He advised us that the hot water cylinder dated from the 60'd and he'd recommended to the landlady that she replace it but she'd refused his advice.

Again it was a fight to get the landlady to ask the electrician to come back with her eventually telling me to arrange it which I did but two weeks had passed and I was no closer to having heat or hot water in the flat. He again replaced the fuses and he said the hot water cylinder needed a new thermostat but he'd been told by the landlady not to spend money and so instead he said he'd try and fix it by switching the wires.

Only by reading this thread have I been able to figure out what he was doing. There is two elements on the water cylinder and I think the electrician must have assumed the top one was working (the smaller tank for the immersion heater) and switch the wiring so that in his mind we'd have no immersion heater but the economy 7 system would heat the water overnight in the smaller tank.

However this didn't work (he'd have known it wouldn't work if he'd asked about the immersion heater) and he promised to return the next day with a thermostat he didn't and after another two weeks of chasing him and my landlady she got another electrician whose invoice and sworn statement she's used her in defence. He replaced the thermostat and strips in the radiators. Interestingly though in his statement he claims he returned the next day to fit them but in the texts we still have we can prove it was 5 day later.

Also it explains why we never had much water nor could we use the immersion heater after the work.

Watertankquery

imgur.com/a/K9vBq

Btw here is the switch that was replaced.