On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:55:09 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Tony Bryer wrote:
It was common practice years ago to have no feed at all to the
header tank. Servowarm, for one.

An ex-plumber I worked with reckoned that this was because Servowarm
installers were not to be trusted to cut into an existing main - they
could do new copper and compression joints but not necessarily
anything else.

Heh heh. My theory was it simply to save money.

I'd go along with the save money idea. After all they would have to do the
gas connection so they'd have to up for that....
um.....
Yeah Right.

They used to justify the 'feature' by saying how that any flood would be
limited, a somewhat negative approach IMHO.

They also set fire to my neighbours house (ceiling void and blow lamps)
when they had there CH installed c. 1980.

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