Insulating Cold Water Tank (Poly Tank PT2000 24x18x19)

[Richard]

The plastic tank (put in by someone ages ago) will now be removed and sit in the loft, on a wooden board 40mm thick. I don't think it needs to sit on special insulation.

There is about a six foot length of plastic padding stuff that is the insulation. Also a two foot long piece as well.

I think it's up to insulation requirements, if the six foot length wraps round the side of the tank and the two foot piece sits on top.

course I must also insulate all the pipework.

Please, anyone, let me know if I'm not insulating correctly, but according to the link, I think I've got all the the insulation that originally came with the tank.

[spamlet]

An old trick used to be not to put insulation under the tank, so the heat from below would reduce the likelihood of a freeze up. I expect modern loft insulation techniques would not allow this...

S

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

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