Linda Barker on Working Lunch

Sep 24, 2009 165 Replies

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Indeed. But that's not what I was talking about was it ?

Only a deranged person would ever imagine that you'd need a pump to get water from a tank in the loft to a boiler or immersion heater situated on one of the floors below.

I was talking solely about central heating which requires water to circulate through any number of pipes and radiators.

Indeed. There's nothing quite like a nice warm bathroom in the middle of summer is there ?

Possibly the person who dreamed up that idea is related in some way to the person who thought you might need a pump to get water from the loft to one of the floors below. What do you think ?

michael adams

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An I.T. "expert" with the wrongly-paced numberplate W1N ME should have been a clue.

Expand your mind;

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?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253956499&sr=1-1--Dave- The Medway Handymanwww.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Um, check out what TMH is...

suspect not, since what you wrote is bollocks regardless of whether or not it's related to health.

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My radiators have valves that allow them to be turned off.

Adam

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And the bye-pass pipe running underneath the radiator ?

michael adams

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LOL, I was just thinking that myself! He's probably upgraded (cough, cough) to V1 STA.

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ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253956499&sr=1-1>> Do they clain that there's no such thing as a blood cholesterol

Look up lipoproteins & get back to me. Or read the book & learn something. Then think about the £700 million a year spent on statins by the NHS + all the money spent on bollox yoghurt drinks.

Erm, yes.

Well indeed, but that wooshing sound could be the point flying past you.

Getting the water from a header in the loft, through a hot water storage cylinder, and ultimately out to taps below the level of the tank in the loft does not require a pump (although often has one anyway to enhance shower performance).

But, that is not what we are talking about here.

That is what we are talking about here - in a subset of the CH system at least.

Getting water from a boiler, up through the indirect coil heat exchanger in the cylinder, and then back to the boiler again as a self perpetuating cycle. In the process heating the content of the cylinder. (albeit rather slowly (cf 60 mins) in practice)

Rads tend to have valves so they can be controlled independently (thermostatically controlled if you want), and the rad would be plumbed in parallel with the cylinder, as rads usually are). A small low output towel rail might be in series such that it is always heated, but that just acknowledges the reality that towels get wet in the summer and need drying then as well.

It seems unlikely.

Well I know it is used for the washbasin and the outside tap. Not sure about the flushing.

Well I know it is used for the washbasin and the outside tap. Not sure about the flushing.

We never use that bathroom for anything other than the loo really and of course the handwashing, especially after working in the garden..

Ok, a quick check with his nibs, and he says it serves the loo too.

I've heard he's an expert on your plumbing.

Yes so I believe, but I have also heard many horror stories about them too.

I won't ask just where you tend to get your little man in!

All water that isn't flowing is stagnant.

Bill

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