
Design tools
Calculators and finders for installers, specifiers and homeowners, built to be used on site as well as in the office. Every result shows the method and the assumptions behind it, prints for the job file, and can be sent to our technical team to confirm.
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Design tools
Choose a cylinder
From the home, the heat pump, the space or the cylinder that's there now, to the World Heat cylinder to fit.
Will it fit? Cylinder space checker
For installers and homeowners
Measure the cupboard, answer two questions and see every World Heat cylinder that fits, with the spare millimetres on each side, and the ones that nearly do.
Open the toolWhich cylinder for this heat pump?
For heat pump installers and homeowners
Bedrooms, bathrooms and the heat pump (make and model, or its output in kW): see the World Heat cylinder to fit, a size either side, the hot water demand and storage behind it, and whether the coil suits the heat pump.
Open the toolReplace an existing cylinder
For installers, merchants and homeowners
Enter the capacity, height, diameter and type of the cylinder that's there now and see the World Heat cylinder to replace it with, what's different and whether it's a straight swap.
Open the toolFind a cylinder
For homeowners and installers
Three questions, the heat source, the size of home and the space you have, and the domestic cylinders that suit.
Open the toolPre-plumbed heat pump cylinder selector
For heat pump installers
Heat pump make and model, cylinder size, space and buffer: the pre-plumbed package to suit, confirmed by our team.
Open the toolDomestic cylinder quick reference
For installers, merchants and specifiers
Every domestic cylinder's capacity, height, diameter and heat loss in one table, to filter and print.
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Size and specify
Storage, reheat, heat loss and running costs, with the method and every assumption shown, and specification text.
Hot water storage sizing
For installers, specifiers and M&E consultants
Storage volume and reheat time together, from a 24-hour draw-off profile and the heating duty you have, for homes and for hotels, care homes, gyms, student accommodation, schools, offices, restaurants and factories (sized on their peak hour). Vary the duty to see the trade-off: less duty, more volume.
Open the toolCylinder heat loss
For specifiers and installers
Standing heat loss of a World Heat cylinder, per day, in watts and per year, from the declared figures.
Worked out from each cylinder’s declared heat loss figures.
Open the toolInsulation savings: what would a new cylinder save?
For building managers, specifiers and procurement
Enter the size of an existing commercial vessel, its insulation and what heats it, and see the pounds a year a World Heat polyurethane foam insulated cylinder would save in standing heat loss.
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Present it to your customer
Our literature, ready to send on under your own name.
Results are indicative and must be confirmed with World Heat before specification.
Rather talk it through? Our technical sales team sizes cylinders every day: 0161 343 8610. See all our design tools.
