is it possible to install a seperate water meter in the house (loft) to determine usage? I wish to let loft out as a studio and want to guage water usage - thanks
installing internal water meter
Jun 05, 2009
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If the loft is going to have it's own separate water heating arrangements, then you just need one meter in the cold supply to the outlets and any heating appliances, otherwise you will need two, one rated for use with hot water.
If you are planning on supplying hot water, do you have a mains pressure hot water system already?
Toby...
I'm planning on supplyin cold water to loft but connected to an immersion heater of some sort so it electrically heated
At my last place, I bought a flow transducer from RS components, and wrote a diddy for a computer to track water usage - dead easy and relatively cheap: The pc was running 24/7 anyway as it controlled my c/h
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It's easy enough to instal your own meter if you're capable of elementary plumbing. I installed my own in the house supply in order to determine whether I'd better off with a metered supply.
I bought one of these:
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(watch the wrap!) intended for connection into a hosepipe to measure garden consumption - but it was easy enough to replace the hose adapters with
3/4"FI to 15mm comp fittings to fit into a 15mm copper pipe.
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for a basic one.
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