|!On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:54:31 +0100, Dave Fawthrop |! mused: |! |!>On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:12:45 +0100, Lurch |!>wrote: |!>
|!>|!On Sun, 13 May 2007 14:10:26 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)" |!>|! mused: |!>|! |!>|!>In article , |!>|!> wrote: |!>|!>> Like it will cost around ?30 for a TMV and save money on expensive |!>|!>> electricity, even if the insulation is not that great. In airing |!>|!>> cupboards the clothes act as insulation. You may not have noticed. |!>|!>
|!>|!>You drape the clothes to be aired round the cylinder? Good grief. |!>|!>
|!>|!I've seen a house burnt to the ground because someone piled clothes up |!>|!on the cylinder. Eventually the immersion heater (could have been the |!>|!pump or valve, everything was switched on and buried under clothes and |!>|!towels, hard to tell what actually started it) gave up and just set |!>|!everything alight in the middle of the night. |!>
|!>So you would both be against those new fangled foam insulated cylinders, |!>and the older glass fiber insulating jackets which we had long ago? That |!>is IMO taking Risk Averseness to new depths. |! |!No, I'm not saying that anything in a cupboard with a cylinder in it |!catches fire, I'm saying that unwise positioning of items can lead to |!it.
Clothes do not catch fire at 100 deg C which is the normal maximum temperature of a hot water cylinder. They are only extra insulation round the tank. If a different problem sets fire to clothes, the fire was caused by that other problem not the normal operation of the cylinder.