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  • 21-12-2012 10:24am
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    jayceegoodmark
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭


    about plumbing.
    Does anybody know if it is acceptable to disregard a heating header tank and tee the cold feed to the heating system from the domestic cold feed to the cylinder, using a non return valve and expansion vessel.


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    Spear
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    Try the heating forum instead:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1320


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    Dtp79
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    jayceegoodmark wrote: »
    about plumbing.
    Does anybody know if it is acceptable to disregard a heating header tank and tee the cold feed to the heating system from the domestic cold feed to the cylinder, using a non return valve and expansion vessel.
    It is if its not for a gas boiler and ONLY if you use a filling loop and it is removed from the cold feed and blanked. This can be re joined if a pressure top up is required


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    jayceegoodmark
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭jayceegoodmark


    Yes, I agree a filling loop would be the best method, although I do know of several housing estates here in sligo with a permanent connection from the domestic cold feed to the cylinder just using a non return valve, expansion vessel and safety valve.
    I would have thought that if the non return valve failed, as they do, water from the heating system could expand into the domestic supply, and it would never be known if the expansion vessel was functioning correctly, that can't be healthy.


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    Dtp79
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    jayceegoodmark wrote: »
    Yes, I agree a filling loop would be the best method, although I do know of several housing estates here in sligo with a permanent connection from the domestic cold feed to the cylinder just using a non return valve, expansion vessel and safety valve.
    I would have thought that if the non return valve failed, as they do, water from the heating system could expand into the domestic supply, and it would never be known if the expansion vessel was functioning correctly, that can't be healthy.
    It's not just in Sligo it's nationwide the so called " semi sealed " system


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