Plumbing question

[jcm@gwr]

 My observations based on my own and friends and relatives homes over the years is that the direct feed to kitchen tap, all other water in the house drawn from a header tank (cold water cistern) usually in the loft or attic would be typical of pre WWII build. Post WWII the direct feed to all cold taps and toilets, indirect feed from header tank to bath arrangement you have deduced became usual. And then at some date with the introduction of combi boilers and the like, houses may be built or modified to all take off points at mains pressure, and there is no cold water header tank. But that's just amateur observation, I am sure a time served plumber could tell more.

 

I think it has as much to do with the Local Authority regs at the time,

and the people who 'designed' the house (I won't go as far as using

the word architect!) as to whether you had direct feed to more than

anything but the kitchen.

Just as (pre 70's) it all depended on which side of the bed the plumber

got out of, as to which way the hot/cold taps (cold on the right, for blind

people, only since the 70's, ish) would end up being plumbed.

My parents bought a new build in '56 with stored water for both hot and

cold to the bathroom, our house was built in the 60's with a storage tank

for the hot only, I tried a combi, got fed up with variations with pressure,

so fitted an unvented system, brilliant, wouldn't change it.