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Heating system water overflowing into domestic!

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  • 19-03-2020 1:34am
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    berrycherry
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Give me opinions on this!!


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    #2
    Payton
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Payton


    Very bad layout. Your heating tank is not being properly supported and is putting pressure on your domestic tank. No covers on either tank and both pipes and tanks are not insulated.
    Call a plumber asap before the lot ruptures and causes some real damage


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,714 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Looks like an old system, that needs urgent attention.


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    whizbang
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭whizbang


    Above is very easy fixed yourself. Your real problem is why hot water is pitching into the tank in the first place.

    Check your central heating system, Have you zone valves, what pump speed setting is in use ?


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    youtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭youtheman


    F*ck me, but that's a botch job if I ever saw one. So you could have your central heating system, complete with corrosion inhibitor, flowing into your domestic tank. So you'd be washing your teeth with corrosion inhibitor !!!!.

    Put the small tank on the same level as the big tank and just run to overflow out through the eve in the roof.


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    berrycherry
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭berrycherry


    Thanks for the replies. This is a rented property. Have a case against the landlord for repairs. He is cleaning a new heating system installed 5yrs ago 🙄.

    How much would it cost to have a plumber come out and give me a report on the condition of this set up?

    House has back boiler, open fire.

    Oil boiler out the back. Both seem to be running against one another and not working in tandem. Opposite pipes in rads get hot for each of them. Left for back boiler, right for oil boiler.


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