Water leakage very severe

[Harvest Fields]

Bet they couldn’t get a bigger tank through the hatch.

 

[Deleted member 97605]

Sorry to say but thats a mess. depending what no 5 feeds just drain enough out to work on it.

Personally i would look at changing that lot altogether and properly supporting it.

I took the hard route and removed every one bar the HW tank feed and overflow.
Every single connection has perished fibre type washers that are now all seeping at all connections.
At present no water is now running as I emptied it all. I never touched the rads or boiler outlets, only the entire mess of butts connected together in this crawl space.
The mess is dodgy, but I notice the main tanks sit on the two foot thick wall, so I have good support, just need to re-do it and board it out a bit.

 

[Deleted member 97605]

Bet they couldn’t get a bigger tank through the hatch.

I am having to stretch and breath in to get through the hole into the area so it took some doing emptying them all and disconnecting them until I got to the back one which is the leaking one. They still have to be squeezed through the hatch to get them out as I have about a 1cm of silt/sand on the bottom of them all, so will clean them out of the loft space.

 

[Deleted member 97605]

I would need instant advice to alter anything as I only have tomorrow to get materials. The boarding out is nothing and done no matter what I do.
I see now how it works. Tank 1-2-3-4 all store water that feeds tank 5 only. Tank 1 and two are about 1 inch higher in the line than the end number 5 tank. Although i'll redo it all in a single height, as I think the height difference is maybe just poor work.
Tank 5 feeds the HW cylinder and boiler, one outlet will be cold to water tank, the other to the boiler and the breather with the bend for the HW tank expansion. the actual cold taps are NOT run from these tanks, and now I know why I have no water pressure at any cold water tap.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Make a bigger hole in the ceiling and fit the correct size tank mate if it’s possible to do and tank 5 should either be feeding heating The 4 bolted together will do the hot water. Please forgive any errors as not read all above
posts.

 

[Deleted member 97605]

Make a bigger hole in the ceiling and fit the correct size tank mate if it’s possible to do and tank 5 should either be feeding heating The 4 bolted together will do the hot water. Please forgive any errors as not read all above
posts.

limited to size as a truss would have to be physically cut and the actual roof is to dangerous to touch, even to do this as I am not re-roofing this time of year, but come the better weather I will sort this out properly as I need right now to simply put this all back together and make a better plan of attack and repair.
I have shut down my house so need it as soon as hardware or DIY stores open today to get me just the gaskets/seals for these fittings in the tanks as xmas is on top of me and I need water and heating. Two days with-out is enough this end.

 

[Deleted member 97605]

Thanks all, I will return to this in better weather as I am in the Cambrian mountains so really need water and heating right now. I am only going to fix the leaks/seals just now and wait till better weather. Remember also I am severely disabled and getting up a ladder takes me about 8-10 mins of slight pain and shear awkwardness, where you all here maybe get up it in about 10 seconds. This entire job should take not much time, but it has taken me about an hour per unit to simply remove the connecting pipes. Hence It has taken me nearly two days non-stop, all night and day to get to this stage of finally getting to the leaking pipe
So thank-you all as I will finish this thread just now and simply repair the leaking pipes.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Merry Christmas.

 

[Deleted member 97605]

Tried a couple of shops but time was against me as all trades stopped yesterday.
Used wick:es as last chance saloon but never got anything needed in such a basic ask of water tank pipes and connectors.

nothing in their store for me, so had to simply grab some big rubber washers. I will use these to seal the pipes to the tanks again and after Xmas, I will get round to fixing this botch-it and scarper job.

Start telling customers you will charge them double instantly if a hack job or idiot has attempted anything you are called out to. A square peg in a round hole is not funny and that person is a serious danger to anyone around them for life.

This is the kind of cowboy butchered fittings I am up against through this entire house. Someone has added a boiler and hot water tank and if you saw the rads on the walls you lot in here would laugh as this is the worst I have seen in my 53 years of living to date in a house in a first world country. (But they all almost work perfectly) I have two leaking as the pipes have been dragged round into bends, but you guessed it, it was bent simply by hand to 90 degrees, so a nice kink in the copper piping, and this is at every rad which have been fitted through-out with rolls of copper brake piping for cars, which in a way is genius, but the mess and poor work makes it look worse than it actually is.
Merry Xmas everyone and will come back when I get round to sorting out this water storage tank mess.

The images show the rubber washers I got which will sort out the leak until I can do more on the whole set-up. The water will not be tainted with this rubber as this is all hot water and not drinking water.