Client noticed the magnesium aneode before me, he remember what it was for from his chemistry days... I was clueless oops! Then again he is a senior A&E doctor in local hospital so he's no dummy haha.
Just an update folks...
Turns out that it's a cylinder made of ferrous metal, it had a magnaseum anedode in it which was meant to be checked every year, cylinder has never been serviced, so it is full of sludge!!
Replacing cylinder in near future
Never came across a cylinder like that...
alL hot outlets, balanced cold ok. Can only think tank connection at cold feed, possibly rust deposits from the old combination valve?(valve was rusty as hell its old and bulky) my first diagnosis of filter was wrong so don't want to start draining tank etc to find out I'm wrong again
When you first open a tap pressure and flow rate is good, it then dies down like a combi would reducing from approx 20 l/min to about 10 l/m. Balanced cold doesn't have this issue, expansion vessel replaced due to being burst, couldn't clean filter in combination valve so temporary bypassed it...
The boiler needs to be open vented, I need to change the heating to sealed so seperarion with a PHE is required.
Kinda messed up on my design and was in sealed system auto pilot mode not realising it was an open vented thermal store, so system has major air issues now, hoping it's not gonna be...
got an open vented electric thermal store I want to convert the heating system to a sealed system due to pipework being above the F&E. boiler is in airing cupboard and pipes drop from loft to rads, the boiler is 9kw so I need a plate heat exchanger, was wondering if taking one from a Combi would...
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