Today I am the chosen one.
This morning I got up bright and early a load of central heating pipe to remove.
Also a whole remap of the hot water side of the house to achieve.
A new hot water tank heated by our big log stove to replace the oil fired jobbie in the old kitchen. Now our utility room.
So in the process of this about 100 foot of pipe came out, that's about 30 M to you who don't work in real money.
If this was copper it would have been a fortune in scrap but it's all plastic So I simply reused it on the new system.
But anyway lots of swearing and we had a system that was taking for ever to fill but we are sort of there.
After a few hours trying out this and that we worked out that it would both heat the house and deliver hot water.
Hot enough for the student to have her best bath in two years.
Should I mention that i had to use a fire engine ladder to get into the loft and that when there was a problem and I needed to empty the tank a bit I used a stirrup pump - green goddess flavour of course.
All that aside, the hot water system works and the tank is a really effective heat sink.
The student has had a proper hot bath for the first time in, well a long time really. She commented that reusing the old pipes that have been our central heating system was very green, especially when it came to the colour of the bath water.
Bethan was more impressed with the swarff from the various holes had drilled in tanks today floating in the top of her bath.
Of course all could not have gone like a book and there has been the odd inundation, but nothing like last time I did central heating, There was water pouring out of the tank in the loft down the walls and one of the smaller joints let go big style . Overall though I think I am getting the hang of this.
Oh dear, that might not be a wise thing to say.
The management though is focused.
She had a proper hot bath - end of discussion.
R
This morning I got up bright and early a load of central heating pipe to remove.
Also a whole remap of the hot water side of the house to achieve.
A new hot water tank heated by our big log stove to replace the oil fired jobbie in the old kitchen. Now our utility room.
So in the process of this about 100 foot of pipe came out, that's about 30 M to you who don't work in real money.
If this was copper it would have been a fortune in scrap but it's all plastic So I simply reused it on the new system.
But anyway lots of swearing and we had a system that was taking for ever to fill but we are sort of there.
After a few hours trying out this and that we worked out that it would both heat the house and deliver hot water.
Hot enough for the student to have her best bath in two years.
Should I mention that i had to use a fire engine ladder to get into the loft and that when there was a problem and I needed to empty the tank a bit I used a stirrup pump - green goddess flavour of course.
All that aside, the hot water system works and the tank is a really effective heat sink.
The student has had a proper hot bath for the first time in, well a long time really. She commented that reusing the old pipes that have been our central heating system was very green, especially when it came to the colour of the bath water.
Bethan was more impressed with the swarff from the various holes had drilled in tanks today floating in the top of her bath.
Of course all could not have gone like a book and there has been the odd inundation, but nothing like last time I did central heating, There was water pouring out of the tank in the loft down the walls and one of the smaller joints let go big style . Overall though I think I am getting the hang of this.
Oh dear, that might not be a wise thing to say.
The management though is focused.
She had a proper hot bath - end of discussion.
R
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