Does this water tank look dangerous?

[Ruby12]

Get the council out under health and safety and get them to order your ll to do / upgrade the tank to a bylaw 30 one

Thank you, I tried today. An environmental health officer is coming in a month to inspect it. I might have to contact my local MP to get it sped up.

 

[Devisham]

It's not WRAS approved and needs replacing. Lazy plumbing has also run a vent pipe to it instead of to drain via tundish. If they have had a legionella risk assessment done this should have been flagged up to the duty holder to action as a priority 1 or a recommendation to convert the system to mains.

 

[Ruby12]

Thank you for this advice. You have all been very helpful. I feel very lucky to have found this forum.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

It's not WRAS approved and needs replacing. Lazy plumbing has also run a vent pipe to it instead of to drain via tundish. If they have had a legionella risk assessment done this should have been flagged up to the duty holder to action as a priority 1 or a recommendation to convert the system to mains.

It’s a vent via a hot gravity hot water cylinder

 

[Devisham]

It’s a vent via a hot gravity hot water cylinder

Yes I'm aware of what it is. It's a legionella risk having a HWSV vent pipe going in to a CWSV.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yes I'm aware of what it is. It's a legionella risk having a HWSV vent pipe going in to a CWSV.

No more than it naturally warming up actually it’s less as if it did ever vent it would be 60dc plus water going into the tank and eventually it would be upto the same temp as the cylinder so would kill any legionella / bacteria

 

[Devisham]

No more than it naturally warming up actually it’s less as if it did ever vent it would be 60dc plus water going into the tank and eventually it would be upto the same temp as the cylinder so would kill any legionella / bacteria

If the CWSV is correctly sized and insulated it shouldn't naturally warm up and should be turned over sufficiently within a 12 hour period. Recommended guidance via HSG274 is that the vent should be run to drain via tundish on a vented non-circulatory system, if it's a vented circulatory system there should also be safety valves. Add the potential scalding risk on top of it all and it's a no brainer.

 

[John.g]

It's not WRAS approved and needs replacing. Lazy plumbing has also run a vent pipe to it instead of to drain via tundish. If they have had a legionella risk assessment done this should have been flagged up to the duty holder to action as a priority 1 or a recommendation to convert the system to mains.

Is this the vent from the HW cylinder itself that shouldn't be brought back in over the CWST?.