Thursday, February 16, 2006
Boiler installed
My plumber friend Ian fitted the electric hot water boiler (chauffe-eau electrique) this week and sorted out all the pipework to connect up the upstairs bathrooms and the downstairs toilet and cloakroom, so we now have the hot and cold water sorted. I've been filling the plasterboard in the toilet and cloakroom and Ian has tiled and fitted the downstairs toilet.
We did omit one minor detail - a pressure reducer - on the cold feed from the mains supply. The mains feed here in France is at a high pressure, I would esimate it at about 6 bar, and because both the hot and cold systems run off mains pressure we found that we could fill the sink faster than the waste would take the water away, even with the plug out. So a quick trip to the shops and we now have a pressure reducer set at 3 bar, which still gives a very decent shower.
We remembered in the other gite, but it must have slipped our minds in this gite!
| 3:29:44 PM
Boiler installed
