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What seemed weird when I visited your country
bhtooefr:
Water heaters here tend to be 40-100 gallon tanks that run on a thermostat.
And around here, in rural areas, the electric companies give significant discounts on water heaters if you get an electric one and let them install a box that remotely cuts off the water heater power during periods of high electrical demand.
94ssd:
We had oil heating originally and had it replaced with natural gas. Much money has been saved.
calenlass:
having puny water pressure from a rain barrel doesn't mean the rest of the shower has to be unbearable and unpleasant and "bracing", though, paul
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: Metope on 28 Dec 2013, 16:09 ---I'm not sure how exactly the boiler and heating in my current flat works, I've never seen anything like it anywhere else, but we have to flick a switch in the kitchen in order to have hot water in the boiler, and also for the heaters to work. The heaters will start working right away, but if you want a shower you'll need to wait an hour. We usually don't keep the switch on since it makes our bills go through the roof and is probably crazy wasteful (I assume it keeps heating and heating instead of stopping when it's hot enough? I don't know how these things work). The whole system seems really archaic and annoyed me a lot when I first moved in, but I don't really mind now.
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What you're describing there is an immersion boiler. It should cut out once a preset temperature has been reached in the hot water tank. There should also be separate controls for the heating and the hot water supply.
The switch in the kitchen is just the master on/off switch for the system. There should be more controls on/near the boiler itself.
If you can locate the boiler tank and take photos of it I can probably offer more advice on setting up the system properly. Usually fairly easy and might be nice to have more functional heating for the next two months of winter, especially in Glasgow.
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: Loki on 28 Dec 2013, 13:41 ---I find the "shower curtain inwards bulging phenomenon" fascinating and annoying at the same time.
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This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can go into the shower a perfectly happy individual and exit it a raging lunatic if the shower curtain adheres itself to my leg too many times.
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