On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:38:17 +0100, David
wrote:

| In article , Dave Fawthrop
| writes
| On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:08:33 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
| wrote:
|
| | In article ws.net,
| | Doctor Drivel wrote:
| | As many of the idiots on this thread spurted forth, combis are full of
| | silly old wives tales, which are untrue, pasing off old crap models as
| | the norm. Want two baths to be filled simultaneously? One can do it.
| | Just choose the model.
| |
| | Some of us are used to 25 litres plus per minute of piping hot water to
| | fill our baths regardless of external conditions.
|
| Maybe I have seen that a few times in hotels, never at home. I find 8l/m,
| measured, perfectly satisfactory. Fills a bath in about 7 mins, as would
| the proposed combi. I have set my conventional system to simulate the
| proposed combi and there is little difference between what I have now and
| the proposed combi. I have no idea where people get 15 mins for a bath
| from, maybe it is an Urban Legend.
|
| What do you do, just wash your feet? or are you talking about a baby
| bath? 56 litres is about half of a small bath so its easy to see where
| 15 mins comes from, its the time a 8l/m combi takes to fill up a small
| bath of 100l. My bath takes 180l, I'll leave that calculation to you

I am describing experiments done with a 10 litre bucket, a stop watch and a
digital thermometer. I then used the full bath and found it satisfactory.


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Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk
"Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*.
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