RE: Smart Bath Plug

[Clark Guy <guy.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI!

This may be a silly question, but why would anyone need such a plug?

In the USA, anyway, bathtubs and sinks generally have an overflow drain
built in, a few inches from the top... the water can't get any higher than
that (especially with our new "water saving" faucets that
severely limit the
flowrate (I hate those things!!!!)).

Guy Clark

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:42 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Smart Bath Plug



I had one of these from about 5 years back but without the temp colour
change, think it was from the Ideal Home show.  They do work in that you
can't overfill the bath -  the version I had used a magnetic hold
arrangement.  The only thing that wasn't too good was that when
activated at say 18" of water it would empty down to say 6"
before
closing again.   So if you filled your bath and then got in it (and
displaced a lot of water like me) then the bath would empty to ankle
depth around you :-(

K

Rob Mouser wrote:

>Just spotted this in construction news:
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>"Safety Plug"
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>Nottingham Rehab Supplies has launched a new bath plug with safety
features.
>The plug uses a pressure activated system that releases excess water
when
an
>unattended bath reaches a certain depth and also alerts the user to
>dangerously hot water by a special colour-change feature.
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>www.nrs-uk.co.uk <http://www.nrs-uk.co.uk/>  Tel:
01530 418 222
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