I also wouldn't fill a kettle from the hot tap, but I was really just pointing out that hot water cylinders don't contain stagnant water.
Well unless the cylinder was in a empty property and unused for many years of course.
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[NSC] Kettles
- Thread starter LANGDON SEAGULL
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I also wouldn't fill a kettle from the hot tap, but I was really just pointing out that hot water cylinders don't contain stagnant water.
Well unless the cylinder was in a empty property and unused for many years of course.
BensGrandad
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I think that Dad used the word stagnant to mean water that didnt move very often perhaps once or twice a week unlike the modern day, even with a boiler and hot water tank, every few minutes, so I accept what you are saying.
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- Jan 3, 2012
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We will be planning a new kitchen soon, and have already decided that we couldn't be bothered with one of those silly boiling water taps! Gimmicky waste of money.
And answer for the OP - Cold water tap, obviously.
Which part?
I grew up in a house?
My parents had a whistling kettle and a gas cooker?
I've worked in houses that have an Aga?
I've seen a kettle on an Aga?
No. Sorry, I'm not having that.
Nitram
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- Jul 16, 2013
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To be fair if you only had a bath once a week then it may be an argument.
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BensGrandad
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Which was common in the 40s/50s especially in working class houses, where many didnt have a bathroom as such and many had a tin bath as mentioned earlier with a copper to heat the water in. Our bath was in the kitchen with a work surface covering it that hads to be propped up to have a bath.
Bold Seagull
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Have a combination boiler so both hot and cold direct from the main supply to the house? Though cold tap obviously! The one to fill the filter jug prior to kettle ?
And you didn't use hot water for anything else either.
BensGrandad
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We had a small gas geyser above the kitchen sink or boiled a kettle for washing up etc.and mum put the large boiler on to heat the water for the washing.
Thems were the days BG. And then all lined up for the family bath on the sabbath.
SIMMO SAYS
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BensGrandad
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Fancy being the last one in the tin bath after four people had been in before you
It happened Dad then mum then the children with a little hot water added for each
Thunder Bolt
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Cold water into the water filter, even though we don't have a tank, either cold or hot, as we have a combi boiler.
I also have a spare whistling kettle for my gas hob, if we get a power cut.
I also have a spare whistling kettle for my gas hob, if we get a power cut.
Seagullroyal
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- Dec 31, 2014
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Read recently that most Americans don't own an electric kettle, and many don't even know what they are for?
It's because they all drink coffee, and so they use coffee machines.
We Brits use kettles for tea, which of course, they don't like.
It's because they all drink coffee, and so they use coffee machines.
We Brits use kettles for tea, which of course, they don't like.
Cesar Chavez
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Two minute job to install?
Worried Man Blues
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Cold tap ever since I found a dead pigeon in the hot water tank, coo
SIMMO SAYS
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Thirty five years ago my dad and I got called to a large old peoples home in Manor Hall Road Brighton.
They had blocked cold water supplies with feathers/small bones coming out of the taps,
We found half a dozen dead pigeons floating and moldering in the large uncovered cold water tank.
They had been getting in through a slipped roof tile.
It was not the most pleasant job to clear and solve the problem.
One of the nuns told us for years they had filled water jugs for all the bedrooms each evening.
The water came directly from the water tank with the pigeons in.
We ended up working at this home for twenty odd years bringing it up to modern standards with basins in all the bedrooms.