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pienipple posted:I used to live in an 1890 something farmhouse with retro fitted plumbing and it had a proper sealed water heater. The entire idea of having an open water system is bizarre to me. Waa? How do you fish out the dead bugs and rats if the tank is sealed? There could be anything in there. Seems unsanitary IMO.
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Hello I'm British and I've never heard of a release valve
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Mar 12, 2017 00:05
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Pick posted:Hello I'm British and I've never heard of a release valve That right there explains so much of British history...
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Mar 12, 2017 00:09
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So I did some more research and found this thread which has some pretty well-explained reasons.quote:The norm was for the cold water tap in the kitchen to be connected to the mains water as it is 'potable' i.e. for drinking. Seems like modern constructions can have more modern hot water heaters (they call them combi-boilers) but the code is stuck in the 1940's because it requires cold water tanks. Then I saw this loving gem: quote:That depends what the brown sludge is. Goddamn Britain get your poo poo together.
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Mar 12, 2017 02:12
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this is like the first time that I read an asswiping debate here. I cannot believe that you people are serious, but enough people are saying it to make me think it's not a joke.
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Mar 12, 2017 03:56
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after moving to the USA i frequently missed central heating (you haven't lived if you ain't pressed your bare skin against a hot radiator, desperately trying to get warm in the dead of winter), but if central heating is to blame for attic tanks and my having to go all the way downstairs if i wanted a drink of water during the night, i'm feeling better about forced-air heat and the general state of HVAC in the US.
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Mar 12, 2017 03:57
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if y'all are losing your poo poo about attic tanks, let me introduce you to... the Ring Main. Someone summon three-phase or another electrical poster, I can't describe the lunacy.
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Mar 12, 2017 03:59
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oh and the UK has at least one "Short Term Operating Reserve" power station (Dinorwig, it's a pretty cool piece of hydroelectric design tbh) that can be spun up in seconds to respond to the sudden spike in electrical demand that occurs when a popular TV show goes to commercial (or, say, a semi-cup final ends) and everyone in the country goes to the kitchen and switches on the kettle.
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Mar 12, 2017 04:02
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in conclusion,
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Mar 12, 2017 04:03
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:if y'all are losing your poo poo about attic tanks, let me introduce you to... the Ring Main. Someone summon three-phase or another electrical poster, I can't describe the lunacy. There is no  large enough to encompass the glory of the Ring Main.
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Mar 12, 2017 04:20
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linked page posted:There is a common misconception that the number one driver of TV pickup is the boiling of kettles. In fact, this only creates a pull on the local network for a short period of time until the water has boiled, and can therefore be managed relatively easily
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Mar 12, 2017 04:28
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While I think open-top attic tanks are weird, the presence of rooftop tanks in tall buildings is not so weird. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam 
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Mar 12, 2017 04:36
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I figured someone would correct me on that, but I assumed it would be fishmech, not you.
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Mar 12, 2017 05:55
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:after moving to the USA i frequently missed central heating (you haven't lived if you ain't pressed your bare skin against a hot radiator, desperately trying to get warm in the dead of winter), but if central heating is to blame for attic tanks and my having to go all the way downstairs if i wanted a drink of water during the night, i'm feeling better about forced-air heat and the general state of HVAC in the US.  I don't think I've been in a house in the US that doesn't have central heating. I've never even seen a radiator outside of a trip to Europe and staying in dodgy cheap hotels in Austria. Is that just an east coast/midwest thing?
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Mar 12, 2017 06:07
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Older city buildings tend to have radiators, at least in the east/Midwest (looking at my Midwestern radiator in a 75+ year old building). Personally I think radiated heat is a lot warmer than central heat and other than taking up precious corner of each room, our apartment is so much warmer than when we had central heating.
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Mar 12, 2017 06:40
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ishikabibble posted:
Central Heating is radiators in every room fed by a boiler. So whatever you think Central Heating is, isn't.
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Central heating [uk parlance] ≈ steam heat [eastern US seaboard parlance] ('cept in central heating the water is almost always below boiling point and in steam heat it starts above boiling, then dips below) ChickenOfTomorrow has a new favorite as of 07:25 on Mar 12, 2017 |
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Mar 12, 2017 07:21
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Move to an old building in New York if you want loving radiators going on hyperdrive all day and all night. There was one February where I had all my windows open every second I was home and still had to use box fans to keep from stroking out because the landlord refused to fix some part of the heating system so every apartment was 85 degrees Fahrenheit and hissed like a basket full of cobras.
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Mar 12, 2017 07:45
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Pasco posted:Central Heating is radiators in every room fed by a boiler. Forced-air Central Heating is a thing. You might have a different name for it, but calling it central heating isn't wrong. Hot air central heating has been around since the early 1800's. AlbieQuirky posted:Move to an old building in New York if you want loving radiators going on hyperdrive all day and all night. There was one February where I had all my windows open every second I was home and still had to use box fans to keep from stroking out because the landlord refused to fix some part of the heating system so every apartment was 85 degrees Fahrenheit and hissed like a basket full of cobras. sure is fun when your windows are frozen open and a cold snap hits!
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Mar 12, 2017 08:00
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You know, plumbing designed by people not stuck in the 1870s. No mouse water, high efficiency boiler, pressurised hot water. Couple it with insulation and it's almost like living in a civilised country.
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Mar 12, 2017 10:52
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cakesmith handyman posted:You know, plumbing designed by people not stuck in the 1870s. No mouse water, high efficiency boiler, pressurised hot water. Couple it with insulation and it's almost like living in a civilised country. I gathered from context the type of plumbing you were referring to, it was the fact that you called it "adult plumbing" that has me confused.
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Mar 12, 2017 11:11
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:in conclusion, Poor John Oliver.
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Mar 12, 2017 12:15
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Paladinus posted:Poor John Oliver. Robotnik's been super touchy since he accidentally shaved off his mustache.
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Mar 12, 2017 12:50
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Pasco posted:Central Heating is radiators in every room fed by a boiler. I think we may just call it "hot-water heat" or "hydronic" heat in the US. Boiler hooked up to hot water lines that run to radiators or (more commonly in newer construction) baseboard heaters. Cast iron radiators and hydronic heat is the best kind of heat. It's evenly warm, quiet, and doesn't blow dust around. I've got an older home with radiators and a modern high efficiency boiler, and it kicks butt. HVAC/forced hot air is in like 90% of new construction in the US, however. The system is cheaper, and you can hook up central air to the same vents. However, I find it to have a kind of "burnt air" feeling, and more prone to temperature variation.
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Mar 12, 2017 12:56
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Do you have a single central source of heating distributed to the whole house by some source of system? Congrats, I think that qualifies to be called a central heating system. The idea of steam central heating has always seemed weird to me, incredibly inefficient and dangerous, but I have ring mains so whatever.
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Mar 12, 2017 15:20
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Most places I've lived had baseboard heat. Except that one apartment that had steam heat that couldn't be controlled at all so I had my windows open all winter or the awful radiator made it 90F constantly. Hot water circulates through the baseboard radiators and radiates into the rooms, close the flap for less warmth, open it for more.
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Mar 12, 2017 17:18
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pienipple posted:close the flap for less warmth, open it for more. Old times pajamas work the opposite way
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Mar 12, 2017 17:52
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District heating is where it’s at.
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Mar 12, 2017 18:03
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Lifehack: scatter a bunch of plutonium nuggets around the house in the winter. This lifehack brought to you by NASA -- it's what the Mars rovers do! They're called Radioisotope Heater Units and they keep the electronics warm enough to function on Mars. And plutonium could keep YOU warm too!
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Mar 12, 2017 18:50
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quote:December 2001 – Three lumberjacks in the nation of Georgia found two warm canisters near their camp and spent the night beside them. The canisters were discarded and unshielded heat sources from Soviet radioisotope thermoelectric generators, containing 30 kCi (1.1 PBq) of 90Sr each. The lumberjacks started showing symptoms of radiation sickness within hours, and were subsequently hospitalized with severe radiation burns. The disposal team consisted of 25 men who were restricted to 40 seconds' worth of exposure each while transferring the canisters to lead-lined drums.
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Mar 12, 2017 18:54
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Powered Descent posted:Lifehack: scatter a bunch of plutonium nuggets around the house in the winter. This lifehack brought to you by NASA -- it's what the Mars rovers do! They're called Radioisotope Heater Units and they keep the electronics warm enough to function on Mars. And plutonium could keep YOU warm too! drat, and after I sold my plutonium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obNIeg2EHDU
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Mar 12, 2017 18:58
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My in-laws live in the US, and has what I guess is a pretty normal house, with a furnace in the basement which blows hot air through vents in the house, controlled by a thermostat. However, the blowing is either ON FULL BLAST or off. Isn't there a way in US houses to get this just to blow constantly on some sort of low setting?
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Mar 12, 2017 21:55
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evobatman posted:My in-laws live in the US, and has what I guess is a pretty normal house, with a furnace in the basement which blows hot air through vents in the house, controlled by a thermostat. No.
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Mar 12, 2017 21:57
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evobatman posted:My in-laws live in the US, and has what I guess is a pretty normal house, with a furnace in the basement which blows hot air through vents in the house, controlled by a thermostat. Yes. You can set it to constantly blow and/or install a multi-speed fan.
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Mar 12, 2017 22:23
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evobatman posted:My in-laws live in the US, and has what I guess is a pretty normal house, with a furnace in the basement which blows hot air through vents in the house, controlled by a thermostat. Yes. They either have a very cheap blower fan with one speed or the fan speed controller thingy burnt out and they didn't bother to fix it.
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Mar 13, 2017 00:19
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It's like the UK was the lovely first draft of the US, and then they forgot to get rid of it.
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Mar 13, 2017 03:39
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It's the poo poo original trunk which the devs with any drive rageforked and rewrote, while the remaining turdlets were stackholmed enough to not let the old corpse die peacefully, but instead ram an interoperability framework up its butt yelling "we used to be da best and now we have 1500% additional features" only now that they've found they're outpaced by pretty much everyone they've started abandoning the interoperability initiative, only slowly realizing that this will only leave them the core that never worked in the first place. Then the devs who forked off join Scientology what a muppet show.
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Mar 13, 2017 09:13
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I can tell that's English.
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Mar 13, 2017 10:00
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At least it has all the symptoms.
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LPT: Magnify your phone screen by putting it in a glass of water.
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