got plumbing, just not hot water


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Posted by Ed Kiser on April 16, 2003 at 20:32:22 from 64.12.96.103 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Re: not BECKFOOT layout - Mr Farland's bathroom arrangements posted by Laurence Monkhouse on April 16, 2003 at 05:43:29:

The presence of plumbing in a house, providing water to a bathroom and the WC, as well as the kitchen, does not necessarily mean that both HOT and cold water are provided in the pipes. It may be just cold water, as it comes from the spring.

To get hot water for bathing, shaving, whatever, in this situation it would be necessary to draw a kettle of water in the kitchen, boil it on the kitchen stove, then bring that hot water up to the bathroom, where it can be tempered by adding to it the cold water from the plumbing.

Just not having to pump the water by hand would be a great improvement. To have HOT water on tap would require a more constant heat source.

Back in the 30's in North Carolina, we had hot and cold water provided by the plumbing. The source of the heat was a small coal stove (we called it the laundry stove) that had the firebox totally lined in a coil of pipes. The fire heated the water in those pipes, and natural convection caused that heated water to rise and circulate with water in a near-by large tank. Seemed to work ok, but only in cool or cold weather, otherwise, who would want a fire in that coal heater? So in the summer, it was back to boiling a kettle on the cook stove, pour it into the tub, add cold water from the faucet to get it manageable, and use it that way.

So the necessity to bring up hot water first thing in the water does not mean there was no plumbing.

Ed Kiser, South Florida


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