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How to identify what heating system you have. In the UK.

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hi everyone welcome along I've been
00:00:02.869 00:00:02.879 asked about different types of heating
00:00:05.150 00:00:05.160 systems seems some of you are not too
00:00:07.220 00:00:07.230 sure what you've actually got so what
00:00:10.610 00:00:10.620 I'm going to do today just take you
00:00:12.020 00:00:12.030 through just four or five of the most
00:00:14.749 00:00:14.759 popular ones that you should find in
00:00:17.990 00:00:18.000 most English houses these days so today
00:00:21.769 00:00:21.779 I'm just going to turn the old camera
00:00:24.050 00:00:24.060 round to the computer screen and we'll
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00:00:27.160 00:00:27.170 okay so first up then we have the combi
00:00:31.279 00:00:31.289 system okay a lot of houses are got
00:00:33.920 00:00:33.930 these and this is conventional combi
00:00:36.020 00:00:36.030 assistant a normal routine of mains into
00:00:38.630 00:00:38.640 the combi and a pressure vessels is
00:00:40.790 00:00:40.800 actually inside the combi and a quite a
00:00:43.760 00:00:43.770 simple system and the only main things
00:00:46.729 00:00:46.739 you need to do is keep it clean moving
00:00:48.950 00:00:48.960 inhibitor and keep it topped up via a
00:00:51.350 00:00:51.360 filling loop which is usually of course
00:00:53.270 00:00:53.280 the mains here and the return pipe and
00:00:56.740 00:00:56.750 you just need to keep that topped up
00:00:58.910 00:00:58.920 between one bar and one of our bars and
00:01:02.299 00:01:02.309 that's it we're eating as you know the
00:01:03.860 00:01:03.870 hot wall will come straight out the taps
00:01:05.630 00:01:05.640 and like the Columbia and you should
00:01:07.580 00:01:07.590 have very instantaneous hot water with
00:01:09.890 00:01:09.900 this system so you know you've got no
00:01:12.050 00:01:12.060 roof tanks no cylinder it's fare quite a
00:01:14.750 00:01:14.760 fairly basic type of system using air
00:01:17.480 00:01:17.490 combi moving on this is our F&E system
00:01:22.969 00:01:22.979 and this one again is one of the most
00:01:24.740 00:01:24.750 popular ones in UK as well as a combi
00:01:27.380 00:01:27.390 that is largely reached a bigger
00:01:29.719 00:01:29.729 audience these days with more modern
00:01:31.700 00:01:31.710 economies they are getting better but
00:01:32.990 00:01:33.000 most houses these days as well will have
00:01:35.660 00:01:35.670 this F and E system and it's a
00:01:38.240 00:01:38.250 conventional one so if you've got a tank
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00:01:42.050 00:01:42.060 likely got a little F and E tank we call
00:01:43.819 00:01:43.829 it up in the loft to feed the boiler
00:01:45.920 00:01:45.930 which is underneath the radiators and
00:01:48.139 00:01:48.149 keep it to be a little in a coil in the
00:01:50.060 00:01:50.070 air doesn't show on this picture and it
00:01:52.429 00:01:52.439 keeps the boiler system separated from
00:01:54.319 00:01:54.329 the cold system that you draw off to the
00:01:56.209 00:01:56.219 tabs and that is a very Bob standard
00:01:59.510 00:01:59.520 system for what the UK is you can see on
00:02:01.969 00:02:01.979 there they've drawn a little pump in and
00:02:04.219 00:02:04.229 a couple of motorized valves they will
00:02:05.929 00:02:05.939 also probably be in your airing
00:02:07.800 00:02:07.810 but so pretty much that's what a lot of
00:02:10.650 00:02:10.660 you have got out heavi if you have a
00:02:12.180 00:02:12.190 whole whistling done moving on there
00:02:16.110 00:02:16.120 again this particular system it still
00:02:19.800 00:02:19.810 has our copper tank in the cupboard as
00:02:22.440 00:02:22.450 usual but where as some of you said
00:02:24.930 00:02:24.940 they've grown up in the loft and not
00:02:26.190 00:02:26.200 found an F in eating and that's because
00:02:28.500 00:02:28.510 some of them are actually using a
00:02:30.840 00:02:30.850 filling loop and a pressure vessel this
00:02:34.080 00:02:34.090 pressure vessel can be anywhere it can
00:02:36.059 00:02:36.069 be anywhere on the system I mean it may
00:02:37.620 00:02:37.630 be here on this particular drawing is
00:02:38.910 00:02:38.920 down here but quite often they're a lot
00:02:40.949 00:02:40.959 of times they're in the airing cupboard
00:02:42.120 00:02:42.130 on on the return there or the flow there
00:02:44.460 00:02:44.470 so a community airing cup they can be on
00:02:47.460 00:02:47.470 the loop round so just have a look if
00:02:50.100 00:02:50.110 you've not got a little F&E tanking you
00:02:51.870 00:02:51.880 must have a filling loop somewhere with
00:02:53.640 00:02:53.650 a little pressure vessel there to
00:02:56.370 00:02:56.380 pressurize absolute kind of like the
00:02:58.740 00:02:58.750 actual human Serkis mains fed via a
00:03:01.170 00:03:01.180 filling loop little gauge to get the
00:03:03.390 00:03:03.400 pressure up on off a bit like our combi
00:03:05.670 00:03:05.680 boiler on the earlier picture but you
00:03:07.410 00:03:07.420 still have a copper tank and main roof
00:03:10.650 00:03:10.660 tank still to feed duck the tank and add
00:03:13.410 00:03:13.420 water out of the taps this particular
00:03:15.270 00:03:15.280 instance you can see is fairly
00:03:16.830 00:03:16.840 straightforward
00:03:17.940 00:03:17.950 so that's just one other instance where
00:03:20.039 00:03:20.049 you may have a cylinder but you won't
00:03:22.890 00:03:22.900 have an F&E tank okay - our last auto
00:03:27.060 00:03:27.070 system is I don't want to bother you too
00:03:29.220 00:03:29.230 much but this is our other one it's a
00:03:30.750 00:03:30.760 kind of a mega flow system and you will
00:03:33.060 00:03:33.070 have a copper herb knock up a tank will
00:03:34.979 00:03:34.989 be a steel tank you'll see in your
00:03:36.720 00:03:36.730 cupboard and you'll have lots of pipes
00:03:39.990 00:03:40.000 going to this look very technical indeed
00:03:42.060 00:03:42.070 but you won't have a roof tank again
00:03:44.039 00:03:44.049 with this nor will you have a F&E tank
00:03:46.470 00:03:46.480 quite often you have a pressure vessel
00:03:48.900 00:03:48.910 there going in for air inlet and also on
00:03:51.900 00:03:51.910 the flow meter near you may have another
00:03:54.660 00:03:54.670 pressure vessel and be fed so that the
00:03:57.509 00:03:57.519 mains is being fed through there and
00:03:59.580 00:03:59.590 topping up our family turns rather the
00:04:02.069 00:04:02.079 pressure vessel might not be there might
00:04:03.420 00:04:03.430 be located elsewhere but this is a very
00:04:05.970 00:04:05.980 sort of modern pressurized complete
00:04:08.370 00:04:08.380 pressurized system that does away with
00:04:10.819 00:04:10.829 Ruth's tank and a cylinder and so it's
00:04:14.819 00:04:14.829 just another way of going a lot of
00:04:16.289 00:04:16.299 places have got these in there
00:04:18.099 00:04:18.109 now and if you just look for still
00:04:20.229 00:04:20.239 tanking your cupboard and yours you'll
00:04:22.179 00:04:22.189 see just by looking at it is one of
00:04:24.580 00:04:24.590 these and as I say again you're worth
00:04:28.029 00:04:28.039 keeping on pressure levels to make sure
00:04:30.909 00:04:30.919 that they don't drop specially in the
00:04:32.709 00:04:32.719 heating circuit we don't want that type
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00:04:37.330 00:04:37.340 that's the foremost kind of common I've
00:04:39.339 00:04:39.349 I've seen in the UK it's probably a good
00:04:41.890 00:04:41.900 few more out there but these are the
00:04:43.149 00:04:43.159 most common ones so I just thought I'd
00:04:45.429 00:04:45.439 run your front well okay that's about it
00:04:48.610 00:04:48.620 from me a usual place all my videos all
00:04:51.760 00:04:51.770 the gear I caught everyone plumbing in
00:04:53.619 00:04:53.629 you can muster
00:04:54.510 00:04:54.520 Darrin very free thanks for watching
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