Communal heating

MikeJXE

You will get there 

Apodemus

Chrisw030290 said:

Ok I have done with the other tank use electric or does that run of the heat from the boilers 

If you mean the tank that is higher up in your cupboard, that will simply be a cold water header tank to ensure that the main tank has an uninterruptedwater supply.  There is no heting to it at all.

[Deleted User]

The cylinder in the photo is hardly suitable for a single home never mind a communal heating system. How many people are ‘connected’ to this cylinder. Cylinders are normally sized on the basis of 45L per occupant. My 4 bed home has a 216L cylinder. 

Chrisw030290

This is for a two bed place. The system looks quite old and all together there’s about 60 flats in this block house and there’s five other houses (block names) I don’t know if one boiler serves around 300 flats or if each boiler serves it house name  

Chrisw030290

So we have 5 house names but all connected together I don’t know weather the boiler serves all of them or a boiler serves a set I’m not to sure 

[Deleted User]

We are all guessing here. You really need to chat to more of your neighbours. ‘Heating from the roof’ suggests solar thermal but you would need solar thermal panels the size of a rugby pitch to provide hot water to 600 flats. The cylinder looks to me as if it is for your flat only with electric immersion back up when the sun does not shine. 

A communal heating system is normally a very large boiler that heats and pumps hot water around the building for heating and hot water. Part of the heating charge covers both maintenance and replacement.