The water board reckons there is nothing wrong with our water supply.....I use a water filter jug!! I don't like the look of this and using the jug makes it taste acceptable.
How many of us take water for granted?
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Most of us, especially if we've never HAD to boil it. A few times when the main broke on our street, had to do so.
Bleach might help?
The greenery shows your water isn't excessively chlorinated. And the plastic lid on the Derwent Macdee cistern lets enough light through for plantlife to thrive. Consider it a micro-water-garden.
The inside of a cistern always looks grungy, but that looks a lot better than many. The insides of water mains are often ugly too, but the water that comes out of our taps is amongst the safest in the world.
In the victorian era, the plumber did more to increase life expectancy than all the advances in medicine put together. Clean water, delivered right into our homes!
You can get plumbed-in filters that will take virtually everything out of your water, if you have doubts about the mains, fairly easy d.i.y. job for a handy person.
http://www.liffwaterfilters.co.uk/liff_nrsk.html
(In my other life I'm a plumber)
what a cute green furry thing?
We could do with a plumber here
Unfortunately we can't pay a plumber at present!!
There is a new toilet waiting to go in.As it is not plastic it sounds as if this shouldn't occur again. Our water isn't over chlorinated most of the time!
Clean water, etc is appreciated.
I'm interested to hear what sort of burner set-up you have. Is it all fixed in place, with rigid pipework? could you use smaller burners in the earlier stages?
Is the regulator a fixed or adjustable one?
Is the setup atmospheric or do you use any air blower?
Um, apart from plumbing, my hat has a label for gas engineer, combustion person, pyromaniac....
your normal CORGI registered bloke's certificate limits him to domestic appliances with heat inputs up to, but not beyond thirty kilowatts.
I've got that one.... and then the industrial one, which starts there, and catapults the engineer into the territory of roaring flame and manic laughter...
erps. that comment was aimed at the kiln firing post, um, er.
stupid me.
I know the value of water since we get ours from a shallow well. We are very mindful of how we use it, even in the winter when we have more than enough...baths are my luxury all winter, come summer it's showers only. I think I would rather see something green and organic in my tank than pure nothingness...as long as it doesn't harm you...
soub, it would be lovely if you could call and see the kiln! I think its picture is on an early posting. The regulator(Bullfinch) is on the bottle end of the gas pipe. Mel has suggested a regulator where the pipe splits for the two burners. There is a secondary air hole on both burners covered by a metal sleeve held by a clip.
Ah.. I just left a comment on the kiln post, only to find the info i was puzzling at is here.
If we get into regulator talk here, it gets confused, I think.
I don't know how much you know about what regulators do?
One regulator, on the bottle would seem to be enough. The regulator's job is to keep the gas entering the system at an even pressure, Some regulators are fixed, some are variable. You may have dial gauges showing the set pressure. Some do, some don't.
Your lever valves by the burners control rate of flow.
Can you photograph the regulator/write down the numbers?,and photograph the burners/valves? It may be a different type of valve in the system might give you more control, Lever ball valves are not too good at fine control, due to their internal geometry. They're very good at being either on, or off. but the in-between stages are a bit hit and miss.
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