What capacity is my water tank
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threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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Why do you need to know?
Tell me to **** off if I'm being too nosey, it's just I couldn't care less the capacity of my water tank, all as I know is it's a big one...ooer missus.
Tell me to **** off if I'm being too nosey, it's just I couldn't care less the capacity of my water tank, all as I know is it's a big one...ooer missus.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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If you need a new tank can't you just say to your friendly plumber what you need it for and let him size it?
Perfect thanks.
Want to figure out what size and if it fits in cupboard before getting plumbers over
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
From memory [but it's easy to check] copper hot water tanks are normally 450 diameter [uninsulated diameter].... so a 140 litre capacity [ suitable for a 2 bed house] will be about 900 high, a 210 litre one about 1300 high or so [suitable for a 3 or 4 bed house...
if you replace it get one as big as you can and make sure it has 100mm foam insulation all around it and insulate any heating and supply pipes with 50mm foam pipe insulation at least 2 heating coils in it so you can have a primary central heating hot water source and then you can fit a solar hot water circuit later and a twin electric immersion heater in it for emergencies.
if you replace it get one as big as you can and make sure it has 100mm foam insulation all around it and insulate any heating and supply pipes with 50mm foam pipe insulation at least 2 heating coils in it so you can have a primary central heating hot water source and then you can fit a solar hot water circuit later and a twin electric immersion heater in it for emergencies.
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threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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Good point Archie, twin coil, didn't add up when I did the maths at the time but I got a twin coil anyway, future proof-ish.
Over The Hill
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They are generally standard and so if you can measure the height of it then you can look at an on line plumbers shop site and see the capacity of the same size. As above they stay standard sizes so that they can be replaced.
One point to note is hard water.
I have a normal tank but over about 10 years it fills up with scale that builds up and drops off the coil and element and gradually fills up the tank with bits. In 10 years it ends up at least a quarter full. If you live in a hard water area this may be happening and this will cut down the capacity of the existing tank so you can get better capacity with just a new tank of the same size that is not full of scale.
One point to note is hard water.
I have a normal tank but over about 10 years it fills up with scale that builds up and drops off the coil and element and gradually fills up the tank with bits. In 10 years it ends up at least a quarter full. If you live in a hard water area this may be happening and this will cut down the capacity of the existing tank so you can get better capacity with just a new tank of the same size that is not full of scale.
