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Wetback Cylinders, ensure the bottom of the cylinder is always higher than the top of the wetback, if not, you may find that your fireplace may heat up in summer due to back circulation.

Power Bill Too High?  Usually this is a problem with older style hot water cylinders.  Wrap the cylinder to insulate it.  Even using left over pink batts and building a box around the cylinder makes good insulation :-)  Another way is to put a simple timer on the cylinder and only heat the water in the cylinder for 3-4 hours at night. To enquire about suitable timers, please contact us.   Installing a timer could reduce your power bill by $20-30 per month, depending on age and type of cylinder.

Insulating Water Pipes - you insulate walls, roofs and hot water cylinders to prevent heat loss, yet the most obvious place your hot  water pipes are often not insulated.  If  your water pipes feel hot you are loosing heat, if your loosing heat, you are loosing money.  Solution - contact us for water pipe insulation (lagging).

Hard Water, Limescale, Water Spotting.  Problems with hard water is usually associated with bore water or in some areas town supply.  It is due to high content of high minerals such as calcuim and magnesium. A white residue in your kettle (hot water jug) or your shampoo is difficult to lather, then you have hard water. Hard water can cause your pipes to block up and your power bill can increase as limescale builds up on your elements.  You can end up with expensive repair jobs replacing hot water cylinders, pipes or suffer high power bills as a result.  To combat this you could use a water genie.  This is an inexpensive option to combat this problem and prevent limescale build up.  A water genie does not remove the minerals from the water but prevents limescale from forming.  For more information on water genies please contact us.  Email: solarone@xtra.co.nz

Glass lined cylinders must be transported standing up (vertically), transporting them lying down (horizontally) can void the warranty.

Low water pressure - use 20mm pipes instead of 15mm pipes.  Avoid 90 degrees elbows and T-junctions as this reduces flow by upto 20%.  You are better to use 2 x 45 degrees to get a better flow.

Vent pipes on low pressure systems - these are measured from the ajax valve to the top of the vent pipe, this is best left longer even to full length of 7.2 metres to increase pressure.  Every addional metre provides for 10KPA of pressure, but the maximum on a low pressure system is 7.2metres and in some instances only 3.6, as some valves only allow for 3.6 head.

Low water pressure - if your pressure is very low for eg. 3-6 of hot water per minute (in shower) rather than installing a new Mains Pressure hot water system that can cost thousands, you may use a small simple booster pump to increase the flow of water.  We have a range of booster pumps available, please contact us.

Email: solarone@xtra.co.nz

Phone HBC 09 426 2449