50 year old Domestic water Loft Header Tank

[Campervan_man]

I was asked by an elderly relative to inspect their Loft Galvanized Steel Water Tank this week.
I have now replaced it with a Plastic Tank and advised that a Copper Tank 240V immersion Heating Element with thermal cut out is fitted as if the existing immersion heater becomes faulty it will be dangerous.
This is what a 50 year old galvanized Steel water tank looks like inside :-
{ Not good }

May be worth having a look at your tank if it is metal.

 

[Mikeco]

My bungalow was built in 1953 and had a water tank in the loft, it was already disconnected when we moved in 12 years ago and last year I decided to bring it down through the loft hatch. Not easy but did it and sold it for £30, apparently they are used as garden features.

 

[Just smiffy]

Where’s the dead pigeon....?

 

[pappajohn]

Our tank is so old it has a copper ballcock float.

 

[PeteH]

Copper Ball (s) Cocks? Are we on the right thread?. Or maybe the left thread.

Take no notice I`m just back from the pub, and the Abbott is £2.20 a pint.

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[Ivory55]

My bungalow was built in 1953 and had a water tank in the loft, it was already disconnected when we moved in 12 years ago and last year I decided to bring it down through the loft hatch. Not easy but did it and sold it for £30, apparently they are used as garden features.

You was lucky getting it out as most tanks are put in as they build the roof not afterwards.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Where’s the dead pigeon....?

☺

Along with the rat ?

 

[tuscancouple]

We completely revamped our hot water/heating system about eight years ago, now mains fed with no tank only two pressure vessels. Awesome pressure for showers etc and a lot less pipe work

Mick

 

[PeteH]

Double post

 

[PeteH]

Along with the rat ?

The pigeon ate it? and then dies, `cos the rat had eaten the poison?.

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[thebriars]

Our tank is so old it has a copper ballcock float.

Think that's old? One house we had came with a wooden tank lined in lead.

 

[Lenny HB]

What no dead pigeons? Last time I saw a galvanised tank it had a few floating in it.

 

[pappajohn]

Think that's old? One house we had came with a wooden tank lined in lead.

Nowt wrong with a bit of lead.... All houses had it once and most occupants died of unrelated things.
Too much fuss over nothing if you ask me.

 

[pappajohn]

What no dead pigeons? Last time I saw a galvanised tank it had a few floating in it.

Couldn't get in ours, it had a wooden lid covered in hessien sacking.
Wood had rotted and fallen in but the hessien was still there.
Now it has a nice sealed contiboard lid.
Still got mickey skeletons in it though.

 

[Rivermount]

Our tank is made of asbestos.
Works fine and far too difficult to think about changing it!

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[mitzimad]

Our tank is made of asbestos.
Works fine and far too difficult to think about changing it!

Not difficult to change it ive done loads but the old one has to stay in loft. unless your opening the roof up as you cant cut or break it to get it out

 

[thebriars]

Nowt wrong with a bit of lead.... All houses had it once and most occupants died of unrelated things.
Too much fuss over nothing if you ask me.

Generally one doesn't drink the hot water anyway,

 

[pappajohn]

Generally one doesn't drink the hot water anyway,

When lead was the norm many houses didn't have hot water on tap.
Kettle for drinks, tin bath for.... Well.. Baths... All boiled on the stove.

 

[wasp]

That tank is in good condition, I’ve taken them out withhuge bubbles in the galvanised coating and just showing underneath, there was probably another ten years in that

 

[Gaston aires]

Copper Ball (s) Cocks? Are we on the right thread?. Or maybe the left thread.

Take no notice I`m just back from the pub, and the Abbott is £2.20 a pint.

It must have been Spoons at 2.20 a pint. Abbott, a fine ale brewed in my home town, Bury St Edmunds.
Phil

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[Spriddler]

Think that's old? One house we had came with a wooden tank lined in lead.

You had a tank? Cuh! you were lucky. When I were a lad in 'uddersfield ................

 

[PeteH]

It must have been Spoons at 2.20 a pint. Abbott, a fine ale brewed in my home town, Bury St Edmunds.
Phil

No. My Local, They have one ale at all times on at £2.40/pint, which one, varies this weekend It happens to be the Abbott. We had Speckled Hen last week, and a nice Local Brew before that.

You had a tank? Cuh! you were lucky. When I were a lad in 'uddersfield ................

"Capstick Comes Home"?. ( to the "Hovis" theme)

Seriously though, lead lining was common, as where lead pipes, In places where they did not have "hard" water, and by definition the pipes did not scale, people where often known to get lead poisoning. It was speculated that many cases of "madness" where atributable to lead poisoning before it became known as a factor.

 

[Captain Pants]

A work colleague had one of those old galvanised tanks. While she was away on holiday the bottom, having rusted away quietly for many years, fell out and continued to pump water onto her house for a couple of days until a neighbour noticed a small river coming out of her back door!

 

[Odd-no-more]

Nowt wrong with a bit of lead.... All houses had it once and most occupants died of unrelated things.
Too much fuss over nothing if you ask me.

We still have a lead incoming water main. Works fine with an unvented cylinder.

 

[PeteH]

We still have a lead incoming water main. Works fine with an unvented cylinder.

Just Curious, is your water hard or soft?. It is the scale on the pipes that stops the lead leaching into the water I am told.

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[Themselves]

When I was a plumber we took a few out that were riveted together as welding was in its infancy st the time.

 

[PeteH]

When I was a plumber we took a few out that were riveted together as welding was in its infancy st the time.

The Titanic was riveted too.

 

[Themselves]

And look ho

The Titanic was riveted too.

And look how much that leaked !

 

[thebriars]

When lead was the norm many houses didn't have hot water on tap.
Kettle for drinks, tin bath for.... Well.. Baths... All boiled on the stove.

Often a tub at the side of the range for heating water.

You had a tank? Cuh! you were lucky. When I were a lad in 'uddersfield ................

We bought the house in the 1980s. Tank still in use.

When as a child I went to stay with one aunt, (not too far from 'uddersield) the dunny was at the botton of the garden, the hot water heated in a copper - there was just one cold tap in the house that ran at a trickle- and there was a tin bath in front of the range.

On the bright side the range made the best Yorkshire puds ever.

 

[Tea Bag]

Our tank is made of asbestos.

Hi.
The old one here was,mind you years ago ,some "Water pipes " were Asbestos in the UK.
Tea Bag

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