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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:
Effectively, only the showers were fed (via the pumps) from the CW tank.
All other CW supply, to the bath, basins, and cisterns, was at mains
pressure. When I mentioned this to our plumber one time, he said that it
was unusual, but he had seen it occasional.

There are all sorts of variations by area. In London, it was common to
have everything from the header tank except the kitchen cold water. I've
even seen some older houses with tank cold water to the kitchen too - so
three taps. Stored hot water produced by some form of back boiler.

But that dated back to houses built with a single bathroom with just a
bath.

I think it used to be part of then Scottish Water Regs.


I've kept things that way here. Despite having an additional bathroom with
a shower rather than bath.

Only modification is to have mains cold water to bathroom basin taps for
teeth cleaning, etc.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England