Spring, yet more plumbing.
Mar. 8th, 2004 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbMy car looks like it has been to a wedding where the rain has washed plum[1] blossom off the tree by the front gate and stuck it all over the car like confetti. Most of the daffodils are in flower. There's lots of new growth on the roses, even the ramblers that really should have been pruned last autumn and weren't till February.
I spent a chunk of the weekend finding that the reason there wasn't any hot water when I isolated the front tank's coil was because the mixer valve on the back tank had one of it's non-return valves fitted on the outlet instead of the inlet. Which was probably actually a good thing, since it was also upside down, with hot and cold connections reversed, so would have had positive feedback and unstabilized the mixed water temperature instead of stabilizing it. I am definitely Not Impressed with Roland Amey. Sunday paper said reports of plumbers earning £70,000 a year are exaggerated.
On the bright side, we had a fun family cycle ride with friends, and it only hailed while we were indoors and didn't even rain much (the grass is still far too wet to cut though). And I should now have twice as much hot water, though I haven't actually tried having two showers at once yet to see it the pressure loss is less than it used to be.
[1] I think it's a plum. I haven't noticed any actual fruit on it in the two years we've lived in the house.
I spent a chunk of the weekend finding that the reason there wasn't any hot water when I isolated the front tank's coil was because the mixer valve on the back tank had one of it's non-return valves fitted on the outlet instead of the inlet. Which was probably actually a good thing, since it was also upside down, with hot and cold connections reversed, so would have had positive feedback and unstabilized the mixed water temperature instead of stabilizing it. I am definitely Not Impressed with Roland Amey. Sunday paper said reports of plumbers earning £70,000 a year are exaggerated.
On the bright side, we had a fun family cycle ride with friends, and it only hailed while we were indoors and didn't even rain much (the grass is still far too wet to cut though). And I should now have twice as much hot water, though I haven't actually tried having two showers at once yet to see it the pressure loss is less than it used to be.
[1] I think it's a plum. I haven't noticed any actual fruit on it in the two years we've lived in the house.
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Date: 2004-03-08 08:41 am (UTC)Long term I want to change the bathroom to have a shower cubicle where the bath is and separate bath on the wall where the basin is, with the basin moving over next to the bidet, but not for a while. Also consider solar heating panels, at least for the swimming pool, and ideally for the house as well (and ideally part of a system that allows use of a back-boiler on the woodburning stove as well, so if the main system fails we can heat more than just the room with the stove (and Nana's room with fire) and have more hot water than relying on the cooker/kettle/stove, but that's a very vague possibility - and unless it thermosiphons the electricity supply is still a single point of failure).
(BTW, Alice did Icarus and Daedalus with her class not long ago - writing eyewitness accounts, and each drawing a different coloured feather that they they put all together on the wall as a collage of wings. I'm assuming that's what "wings_of_wax" refers to anyway. Maybe I should try and think of a less boring journal title as well.)
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Date: 2004-03-09 09:38 am (UTC)