Open vented cylinders
These are all fed from a store of cold water - either a cold water tank in your roof or a built-in tank. They all use gravity to force the water out to the hot taps. A pump can be fitted after these to boost pressures if required. |
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Indirect
Heated via pipework from your boiler with immersion heater backup
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Fortic
A direct or indirect cylinder with the cold water feed cistern built into the top of the cylinder rather than a separate cistern in the roofspace. Often found in flats. |
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Direct
Heated by electric immersion heaters only - you may have one or two immersion heaters, depending on the size of cylinder. |
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Solar
For the addition of solar panels while keeping your cold water roof tank |
Open vented cylinders (except the Fortic type) are supplied with cold water stored in roof cisterns. |
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Round
A very useful cold water cistern that can be folded to fit through smaller loft hatches.
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Coffin
The coffin tank is very useful for fitting into low height roofspaces and tucking away in the eaves space of loft conversions.
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Rectangular
The standard rectangular cold water cistern. This can be more space efficient, especially if joining two or more together to give a higher stored water volume.
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All cisterns are fitted with a closely sealing lid to prevent insects geting in and and overflow kit. We fully insulate them to prevent freezing. |
