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Hi All,
My First post and new to plumbing and heating.
I’m looking for some technical advice regarding an Ideal Mexico Slimline RS 3/50.
I have an installation which currently uses a Gravity DHW and Pumped CH with all 4 tapping being used in the boiler. All pipework is 22mm and not 28mm as suggested in the manual.
The Left hand side of the boiler is for CH and the Right hand side for DHW.
For each circuit, the feed is at the top and the return is at the bottom.
The DHW does not rise immediately from the boiler but drops below the floor for about a 1m before rising. Horizontal HDW run to the storage tank is about 6m.
The heating seems to be working fine, but the DHW is non existent. Only warming about 2m of the feed pipework.
The manual doesn't really say too much but I would like to know, if each circuit is independent of the other inside the boiler, as it doesn't seem to be. Also there are 2 header tanks (1 large – Cold water and 1 small - DHW/expansion) but only 1 top-up feed to the DHW circuit and nothing to the CH circuit. The CH circuit does fill, but very very very slowly.
Does this all sound something like or is it a total abomination that needs a re-hash to a fully pumped system???
Any help would be appreciated.
My First post and new to plumbing and heating.
I’m looking for some technical advice regarding an Ideal Mexico Slimline RS 3/50.
I have an installation which currently uses a Gravity DHW and Pumped CH with all 4 tapping being used in the boiler. All pipework is 22mm and not 28mm as suggested in the manual.
The Left hand side of the boiler is for CH and the Right hand side for DHW.
For each circuit, the feed is at the top and the return is at the bottom.
The DHW does not rise immediately from the boiler but drops below the floor for about a 1m before rising. Horizontal HDW run to the storage tank is about 6m.
The heating seems to be working fine, but the DHW is non existent. Only warming about 2m of the feed pipework.
The manual doesn't really say too much but I would like to know, if each circuit is independent of the other inside the boiler, as it doesn't seem to be. Also there are 2 header tanks (1 large – Cold water and 1 small - DHW/expansion) but only 1 top-up feed to the DHW circuit and nothing to the CH circuit. The CH circuit does fill, but very very very slowly.
Does this all sound something like or is it a total abomination that needs a re-hash to a fully pumped system???
Any help would be appreciated.