Janet > wrote:
>In article >,
[ In Britain the hot water tanks empty out as you use hot water ]
>> It was prevalent in the U.K. in 1985.
> I'm older than that :-) and it wasn't. You may be confusing hot water
>tanks running out of hot water (but they are still full of water, it's
>just cold, until it gets heated up again).
No, I'm not confused, I've seen this firsthand and discussed it
with UK homeowners during the 1980's time frame.
(Perhaps it is a regional thing, with water heaters that drained empty
with water usage being phased out more recently in some parts of Britain
than others?)
Steve