Ciao bella. Back home to water tank problem.
"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article ,
Bob wrote:
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.
I suspect gas isn't as freely available as here - it's a much larger
country to pipe up.
Gas is freely available in the USA
Americans do seem a bit backward when it comes to appliances, like
those
awful top loading washing machines with the clothes-shredding paddle.
We couldn't even buy an electric kettle - "Haven't you got a stove?"
they all said.
All down to the common 110 volts and the maximum current you can take
from
an outlet - IIRC means about 1 KW element as opposed to our 3. Would take
forever to boil.
Don't they have some sort of split, like a centre tapped 110-0-110 volt
system in America now, so higher voltages can be used if required?...
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Tony Sayer
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