Re: RE: Measuring bath water depth

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

James Hoye wrote:
> Isn't the overflow designed to do this?

I can only speak for my own overflow here, but it handles that quite 
nicely...... often in the hot summer days I want to wash the crud off my
legs and get rid of the sweat etc, so get in a nice hot bath, but it can
be too hot to sit in after a while..... putting the cold on full blast 
(I've got what seems like quite high mains water pressure, not a namby 
pamby trickle) to cool myself down, and the overflow deals with all that
perfectly.

> Careful you don't rust in there Doogie ;)

hehehehhehehehehe ;)

> I wouldn't trust X10 to be reliable enough here.  This is IMHO
where a
> hardwired is required.  You did install CAT5 in the bathroom,
didn't you? ;)

Yeah, I'd be a bit skeptical of using it for that too, but Campbell said
he's already installed that with AD10s, so thats what I was working 
with..... :) Of course, if the overflow works to a suitable degree, the
worst case that would happen with it being on by mistake while out is 
coming home to no hot water, or the boiler having been running all day,
depending on water heating system type.

At least in Scotland we're not metered on our water consumption :)

> Assuming that none of your bath taps are reliant on mains pressure
then the
> above hold fairly true.

Yeah, thats one thing that could change..... :S

> I must admit, I like the idea about using an ultrasonic tape
measure
> thingy - it must be possible to get at the signal levels before it
displays

Yeah, it does sound like a nice idea..... but if you're going to the 
trouble of distinct level of water, I'd expect you'd want some sort of 
temperature monitoring as well, so you knew that the bath you'd just run
wasn't icy cold, or scalding hot.....? !

-- 
Doogie

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