Hi all. The wife often lets our 6 year soak in the bath water while the shower continues to flow whilst submerged. Does this have a detrimental effect on the combi?
Thanks.
Arthur
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15 years ago
Shower head under water
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15 years ago
Sorry. I should say that the shower is thermo bar shower (Grohe) and Combi is W-B 28i
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15 years ago
no but referring to her as the wife might have a detrimental effect on other things!
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15 years ago
The old dear will be too busy doing the cooking and ironing to read any comments on here ;-)
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15 years ago
Thought that was against water regulations because of possible back syphoning ?
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15 years ago
Which reminds me....anniversary on saturday...need to think...{ping}..leccy breadmaker...easy.
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15 years ago
ho ho!
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15 years ago
We're talking about a female here, mate.
Arthur
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15 years ago
Absolutely against the regs. Flogging is too good for em.
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15 years ago
So you looking for a reason to tell her to quit wasting water and energy, other than telling her its wasting money because she wont listen. Grow some balls.
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15 years ago
If you want to give her a better present, *you* buy the breadmaker for yourself and make bread for her!
Fresh bread from a breadmaker is nice but making it regularly quickly becomes a bit of a chore.
Tim
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15 years ago
Whoever fitted the shower broke the regs. Ours had a plate-with-a-hole arrangement that the shower hose has to go through. When that was done, the shower head could not reach the water level in even a full bath. But it also made it much more awkward to use the shower to sluice down the bath after use. (Please note the tense in that sentence. :-) )
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15 years ago
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Can also make things a bit tense when trying to rinse your nethers.
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15 years ago
Water By Laws (AIUI) control the _positioning_ of the shower, such that the hose won't have enough reach to allow this to happen. They recognise that they haven't a hope of controlling people's behaviour when using it.
So it was Arthur's (possibly a plumber's, but this is uk.d-i-y) fault, not his wife's.
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15 years ago
Are you certain - what regs? Most systems have or ought to have double check valves. Mine has. Otherwise what's the point of having them?
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Does that answer the question?
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15 years ago
No.
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15 years ago
No I am not certain - I'd need a legal opinion to be certain. But you can have a look here:
And see what that says (albeit in the context of *compact* bathrooms).
Ironically, because our shower is fed from the cold water tank, we do have an air gap from the mains. Using a combi, you don't.
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15 years ago
She's in the canal. Is that good?
Arthur
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15 years ago
AIUI this is not a problem provided one of the following is met.
1) The installation can't back syphon because the hose can't reach. 2) The shower is electric or has built in non-return valves. 3) The shower is not run from the mains water.(2) seems to apply here as the mixer is a bar mixer which have NRVs in them. As do /most/ thermostatic mixers.