Bought a Y connector and a couple of square tap connectors to fit the kitchen sink taps, hoping to save on carting buckets of water around. After connecting it all up, I've found that the gravity/pressure from the hot water isn't sufficient and the cold water goes up the hot water pipe into the cistern, as well as into the tank. The hot will run ok from hot tap to tank if on its own.
The only things I can think of is using two pipes all the way to the tank, or one pipe to a large holding container close to the tank, filling it with hot and cold separately, then pumping it to the tank. Can anyone think of any another solutions?
My ceiling are very low, the distance from hot tap to ceiling is only 3.5', so there's only about 4' of drop to gravity feed the hot water from the immersion heater, which is a Fortic combination tank. Even with the cold turned down low, the pressure still forces the cold water up the hot water pipe.
I got the idea from this thread. What I don't understand from that thread is how the in-line hose taps can be turned off whilst filling the tank, without blowing the hoses off the connectors.
TIA
The only things I can think of is using two pipes all the way to the tank, or one pipe to a large holding container close to the tank, filling it with hot and cold separately, then pumping it to the tank. Can anyone think of any another solutions?
My ceiling are very low, the distance from hot tap to ceiling is only 3.5', so there's only about 4' of drop to gravity feed the hot water from the immersion heater, which is a Fortic combination tank. Even with the cold turned down low, the pressure still forces the cold water up the hot water pipe.
I got the idea from this thread. What I don't understand from that thread is how the in-line hose taps can be turned off whilst filling the tank, without blowing the hoses off the connectors.
TIA