"Bob" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
IMM wrote:
Or go main water system with combi or heat bank. Storage tanks are
spurned upon because of what you experienced. The Americans think we
are mad using them.

You're right for once. The Americans do think we're mad using combis -
they heat their water by electricity.

Then they must be the mad ones. Electricity prices when I lived there
were
much higher than here, making electric heating was even less economic than
it is here.

Americans do seem a bit backward when it comes to appliances, like those
awful top loading washing machines with the clothes-shredding paddle.

They have condensing forced air units. J&S do not, only an after market
conversion unit for a conventional flue.

We couldn't even buy an electric kettle - "Haven't you got a stove?" they
all said.

Bob