Can anyone tell me the purpose of this bit of plumbing installed in a kitchen cupboard of a National Trust cottage we rented?
Mike
Can anyone tell me the purpose of this bit of plumbing installed in a kitchen cupboard of a National Trust cottage we rented?
Mike
It's certainly very impressive.
It makes the water go round and round until it gets dizzy.
The ultego III smart is a compact heat meter for the accurate recording of energy consumption. The device comprises a flow sensor, two fixed connected temperature sensors and a calculator that calculates energy consumption using the volume and temperature difference.
I guess the cat's cradle of pipework is all part of it.
Measuring the amount of heat "consumed" within the cottage, might it be connected to a communal system serving several properties, or where the cottage piggy-backs onto a neighbouring property so it no longer has its own boiler?
Is the black box a plate heat exchanger?
Looks like a blending valve in there too?
DIY version of one of these?
(to pinch Tim's Russ Andrews post).
I guess the plumber was grateful for push-fit!
No, no, no:
It makes the water go round and round in order to heat it up
National Trust have been fitting "communal" ground source heat pumps to supply some of their cottages so could be part of that
communal heating system and heat metering:
The ultego III smart is a compact heat meter for the accurate recording of energy consumption. The device comprises a flow sensor, two fixed connected temperature sensors and a calculator that calculates energy consumption us ing the volume and temperature difference.
Owain
Since I cannot see it and only going from the descriptions here I could caption the photo. Damn who nicked the cold fusion water heater it goes in the middle. Brian
What are the fittings that look like a combined gate/double drain valve? Never seen anything like that.
Answering my own question, looks like a manual balancing valve
Possibly to do with dosing an off mains water supply with chlorine.
Possibly to do with dosing an off mains water supply with chlorine.
Is the water stored in a tanK?
Balancing valves, apparently, I've not seen them before
Heat meter, used to charge for heating from a central source or to monitor solar heating, etc.
Waste heat from power stations you mean? I thought the idea of that is that it's free, or at least unmetered. They'll be metering the air we breathe next.
a bit unrealistic surely
They do when you're on a ventilator or oxygen.
NT
Looks like crimped not push fit.
Probably the expensive Rothenberger kit as in the "Impressive toys for jobs" thread.
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