On 1 Sep 2005 16:13:49 -0700, wrote:


Andy Hall wrote:
On 31 Aug 2005 15:55:17 -0700, wrote:


Curious. You were talking about renovation of luxury palacial
premises recently.

Yes. Well some have been one bedroom flats, and others 3 bed semis. All
have to be tip top and atractive to sell ASAP to as near to asking
price as possible.

Ah. I see.


Somehow installing a geyser in one (or even out
at the back) doesn't seem to fit that image.....

Image is delivering the flowrate to the body jet showers.

What flow rate? There was a recent thread here indicating that at
least 25-30lpm is needed for such a shower. This is easily
achievable with a storage system.

The mid range Rinnai, at 54kW is using almost the entire throughput of
a standard domestic gas supply and still manages less than 20lpm, and
that is at a 33 degree rather than the standard 35 degree temperature
rise. Specifications on some models are for only a 25 degree rise.

It would take the 70kW one and a commercial gas supply to achieve the
flow rate needed for a proper body jet shower.

Efficiency is quite poor. The 69kW input model has an output to
water of only 55.4kW - around 80%. This would not be allowed for a
normal boiler.



A Rinnai is
not an over the bath Ascot.

In effect, that's exactly what it is, except mounted outside. I
can't imagine why anybody would want a big white box on the outside of
their house. I would be surprised if their Japanese model is that
colour.



Look at their web site.

I have, and I am very underwhelmed.

A nice, neat, slim
white box on the rear wall.

I think it's plug ugly.




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..andy

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