Moving hot water cylender to attic

proponent

Hi all,
Trying to figure out the sort of job required to move the hot water cylender to the attic to make space to expand a bedroom.

The system is what looks like a pressurised System(as has pump) and solar panels also feeding into the hot water cylender. There is a hell of a lot of pipes going into the cylender.

Can this be done? And if so are there any good plumbers out there in Dublin who you could recommend to me?

Thanks all

Sleeper12

Get a smoke / fire alarm wired to the electricity in the attic. I've seen a very bad house fire caused by a faulty immersion in an attic. A fire will really take hold up the rear before you will notice downstairs

DublinDilbert

proponent wrote: »

Hi all,
Trying to figure out the sort of job required to move the hot water cylender to the attic to make space to expand a bedroom.

The system is what looks like a pressurised System(as has pump) and solar panels also feeding into the hot water cylender. There is a hell of a lot of pipes going into the cylender.

Can this be done? And if so are there any good plumbers out there in Dublin who you could recommend to me?

Thanks all

Yea it can be done but not easily! You'll need to raise up the water tank in the attic to above the cylinder. Also the hot water will take ages to reach down stairs. Had this set up and it wasn't great.

Maybe swap to a combi boiler and get rid of the copper cylinder.

rightjob!

proponent wrote: »

Hi all,
Trying to figure out the sort of job required to move the hot water cylender to the attic to make space to expand a bedroom.

The system is what looks like a pressurised System(as has pump) and solar panels also feeding into the hot water cylender. There is a hell of a lot of pipes going into the cylender.

Can this be done? And if so are there any good plumbers out there in Dublin who you could recommend to me?

Thanks all

Yes it can be done.take a picture of your cylinder to show it is pressurised or not.

Its just a matter of moving all the pipes and cylinder into the attic and supporting the cylinder base.

Your system will work exactly the same when it is fitted.

proponent

Hi all,
Had the plumber out. it can all be done quite easily, but now its a matter of space.. are there such things as flat or square hot water tanks that could fit into the eves??

Cerco

Are you not concerned about heat loss in the attic?

Sleeper12

Cerco wrote:

Are you not concerned about heat loss in the attic?

And a bigger dead leg (the amount of hot water left in the pipe) or the amount of time it'll take to get hot water in the kitchen. The dead leg from my cylinder to my kitchen tap is 5 or 6 litres. If I moved the cylinder to the attic it would add another few litres.

DublinDilbert

proponent wrote: »

Hi all,
Had the plumber out. it can all be done quite easily, but now its a matter of space.. are there such things as flat or square hot water tanks that could fit into the eves??

Not that I've ever seen. a platform will need to be built for the cold water tank, it will need to be up in the roof apex, so the platform will be about 5foot off the attic floor.

K.Flyer

No need to be building high platforms up in the apex. (Great fun changing worn ball-cocks)
Siting of cold water storage and hot water cylinder are crucial as you will have approx a half ton weight to support.
That aside, I would suggest to have a stainless steel unvented cylinder fitted into the attic. The cold tank and cylinder can be on the same level, I.e. side by side, and water fed from the cold tank to hot cylinder and cold services via a pump.
If budget and access allowed you can overcome the issue of the dead leg by putting in a dual hot pipe circuit with a circulation pump set up on a timer for main usage times. This will drastically reduce wait time for hot water to taps / showers and water wastage.

sky6

If you do go ahead and put it in the Attic think of Safety for anyone who might be sleeping underneath it.
Put a tray underneath the Cylinder to run any leaks out through the Eaves.

There is a company who make Cylinders, especially for the attic. Not cheap but compared to standard Cylinders.
I'll send a pm.

proponent

thanks all

Weyhey

Proponent I would love to know how you are progressing. I should never have allowed our tank to be moved into our bedroom and would love to move it into the attic but don't know how much it would cost.

I know there are horizontal cylinders you can get (think Joule being one) but no either of the cost.