Water is the bane of my life in this house!

Water that SHOULD be in the tanks in The Loft and yet seem to have ambitions to flood the whole place! The decals are ABOVE the tanks normally though...............

That's always been a bad idea is water tanks in the loft..tanks in the loft would be far worse tho..ya know how heavy they can get ?

Quote from: Wardukw-NZ on May 10, 2023, 02:50:56 PMThat's always been a bad idea is water tanks in the loft..tanks in the loft would be far worse tho..ya know how heavy they can get ?

      
I wouldn't have my bedroom in the room below the tank, that's for sure...  

Tell ya I've been on top of tanks and man those things are hard ..ya kick em and nothing happens ..so it's very wise not to have em above ya bedroom mate   

When the council finally deigned to improve our house some years ago they put in a new kitchen, blocked up the coal fire, installed modern central heating with instant hot water to the taps etc. Lovely.

The water tank was condemned, disconnected and left in place because the only way to remove it safely would be to take the roof off. Cutting up a large asbestos tank in a confined space is apparently unwise 

The house we lived in in Addiscombe (South London) had been ruined modernised by having  the chimney breasts removed from both floors.
But everything above the upstairs ceiling had been left in place.  This meant that there was at least a ton of brickwork up in the attic above our heads as we slept which was supported on two lengths of four by two laid across the ceiling joists.
Some nights i'd lie awake thinking about that...

Quote from: Wardukw-NZ on May 10, 2023, 02:50:56 PMThat's always been a bad idea is water tanks in the loft..tanks in the loft would be far worse tho..ya know how heavy they can get ?

At a guess maybe 60-75% of houses in the UK have water tanks in the loft, if only to provide enough pressure to drive the hot water and shower systems.

Mine has THREE tanks, but which one does what I have no idea as the guy who had them installed, the house owner before me, always did everything on the cheap and hadn't a clue what he was doing.   

Quote from: zenrat on May 11, 2023, 03:35:00 AMThe house we lived in in Addiscombe (South London) had been ruined modernised by having  the chimney breasts removed from both floors.

Small world   I went to school in Addiscombe (Ashburton Sec for boys) and when married lived in Tevan Rd. Still got a couple of mates who live that way.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 11, 2023, 04:45:55 AM

Quote from: Wardukw-NZ on May 10, 2023, 02:50:56 PMThat's always been a bad idea is water tanks in the loft..tanks in the loft would be far worse tho..ya know how heavy they can get ?

At a guess maybe 60-75% of houses in the UK have water tanks in the loft, if only to provide enough pressure to drive the hot water and shower systems.

Mine has THREE tanks, but which one does what I have no idea as the guy who had them installed, the house owner before me, always did everything on the cheap and hadn't a clue what he was doing.   

Oh I've been there Kit..not with water tanks tho..nails ..thousands of nails..and that was just in a frame to hold a bath ! .
Renovating a mates new house..im certain who ever built this house had either shares in Alco nails or he had several hundred boxes he wanted to loose and decided to use everyone one in this place.
I'm not kidding either..he used 12 4in nails to hold down one piece of 2x4 which was say 700mm long! ..nuts mate.