Posted by Eric Abraham on September 14, 2006 at 01:47:53 from 63.245.133.224 user EricAbraham.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Hot Water System posted by Owen Roberts on September 14, 2006 at 00:29:48:
I have had a "demand" type hot water heater for about five years - now on my second, the first was in my previous house in Wabaunsee, Kansas. Both AquaStars by Bosch. I am gone a lot, so it doesn't keep the water hot waiting for me to return and use it, hence no cost to run except when I am using it. Yes, if the water service was intermittent, there would be a problem, but the traditional American hot water tank depends on water pressure to work.
I would not think Beckfoot had a public water mains service or a pump on the well, I doubt if they used a windmill. Wouldn't any tank at Beckfoot have to be hand filled either with a hand pump or with buckets? In the late '50s I used to visit a German family near Kiel that filled their household water tank that lived near the ceiling in the bathroom with a hand pump - I remember that the thing-that-Mr.Ransome-never-mentions was out of a train coach - or very similar.
Eric Abraham - In Plenty of Hot Water