On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:36:33 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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>> On Thursday, 28 January 2016 02:41:40 UTC-6, Ophelia wrote:
>>> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>> > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:46:43 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>>> > wrote:
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>>> >>"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>>> >>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:21:44 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>>> >>> wrote:
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>>> >>>>"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>>> >>>>> On 1/26/2016 4:17 PM, wrote:
>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:12:31 -0500, Nancy Young
>>> >>>>>> > wrote:
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>>> >>>>>>> On 1/26/2016 12:40 PM, wrote:
>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:01:34 -0500, Nancy Young
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>>> >>>>>>>> I have instant hot water, none is wasted here.
>>> >>>>>>>
>>> >>>>>>> That's a nice feature, but most people don't have that.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> I mentioned it really because sf was accusatory and actually I am
>>> >>>>>> very
>>> >>>>>> good at not wasting 
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I get it, but when you live with drought, it sensitizes you to
>>> >>>>> the idea of just running water down the drain for nothing.
>>> >>>>> Like the moisturizer I use, it says to put it on and rinse it
>>> >>>>> off. Then wash the tub. Like they're on a mission to drain all
>>> >>>>> the reservoirs. Somehow I get by using less and not rinsing off
>>> >>>>> the 'extra.'
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> My power bill is a fraction of some friends,
>>> >>>>>> but then they go from room to room leaving lights on etc. I also
>>> >>>>>> loathe to turn the oven on for just one item etc etc.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Sorry if I seemed to be jumping on you, I didn't mean it to
>>> >>>>> be personally directed at you.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>> If I was still in a house I would install one of those on demand
>>> >>>>>> water
>>> >>>>>> heating thingies, they are very good.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I have considered those, though I am sure spending a lot of money
>>> >>>>> on that would be a hard sell.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>Do you mean a 'combi boiler'? Believe me, they are worth every
>>> >>>>penny!!
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>https://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/ar...a-combi-boiler
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Actually it's not the same, an on demand tankless water heater is
>>> >>> only
>>> >>> for hot water, not house heating. I had one installed two years ago,
>>> >>> it long ago paid for itself by cutting my water heating energy use by
>>> >>> 2/3... and takes very little space, it's about the size of a desk top
>>> >>> PC... mine is on my basement wall, in warmer climates it can be
>>> >>> outdoors.
>>> >>> https://www.rinnai.us/tankless-water-heater
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>Mine isn't much bigger than a desktop computer and it does serve the
>>> >>house
>>> >>heating as well as the hot water. Oh and it hangs on the wall in a
>>> >>cupboard.
>>> >
>>> > All I can think is you're in a location of much more mild weather...
>>> > your system wouldn't work here where temperatures in winter are often
>>> > in the minuses, as in below zero F.
>>>
>>> LOL I am in Scotland!!!! These things are commonplace btw.
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>> Upstate New York, where Sheldon lives, seems to have a lower annual winter
>> temperature than Scotland (doing a quick check)...'course Scotland can get
>> quite chill :-)
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>> The temp in the British Isles generally is tempered somewhat by the ocean
>> currents...you'll find roses still extant (in the lower reaches of the UK,
>> at least) in December, but I don't think you'd find roses blooming in the
>> Capital Region of NY state at that time.
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>I take it you mean Southern England???
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>Anyway, Sheldon tried to say that the reason we have combi boilers was
>because we have warmer weather lol
You likely do have warmer winters than where I live. On several
occasons I've posted the winter temperatures here in the northern
Catskills and I have again in this thread, yet you've not once posted
your winter temperatures, you only say it's "cold". Tonight I checked
Scotland's climate, winters there are a lot warmer than they are
here... your coldest winter days ever recorded are warmer than my late
spring days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Scotland
Your kind of house heating wouldn't work here, we'd freeze our asses
off. Most winter mornings I wake up to -20ºF, very often for weeks at
a time the night time temperatures dive to -40ºF. On a typical
sunny/mild winter day the temperature here never goes higher than 10ºF
by noon. In winter here some trees burst from freezing temperatures
and can take years to heal if they don't die first. Occasionally some
lose all their sugar maple trees due to excessively cold temperatures,
they literally explode into splinters, their bark is totally girdled,
they die. At the higher elevations it gets cold here.