RE: Stun me with your bathrooms!

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was posted to the list a little while ago:

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> From: Stuart Meier  Sent: 20 July 2004 13:01
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> Tim asked me to post this, currently flushing out the lurkers=20
> on UK_Selfbuild...
> "Well worth posting over on UKHA though, a neat, automated bog
flush"
>=20
> > I had been struggling with how to operate the loo flush on=20
> a hidden cistern.
> All
> > the ones I have seen (below =A3150 anyway) are as ugly as sin,
or=20
> > difficult to operate. Nasty handles, giant pushbuttons etc.
> >
> > Just in case anyone else is pondering this perplexing and
important=20
> > issue (!),
> I
> > have just got my low cost solution.
> >
> > I'll be using pneumatic hidden cisterns (from BES,=20
> currently on offer=20
> > at =A327), operated by a small airpump =A310 from a  fishtank=20
> supplier),=20
> > triggered by a wee bit of electronics ( so a brief touch on
any=20
> > desired button (mine is a small diamond tile) will run the pump
for=20
> > the requisite 5 odd seconds). And it automatically runs a fan for
a=20
> > few minutes too if you want. In the event of mains failure=20
> there is still a manual override.
> >
> > Just got a prototype working a treat. But it's not got a cat5=20
> > interface so no point in telling you good folk on UKHA!
> >
> > StUart
99=20

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale Sent: 21 January 2005 13:01
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> Anyone already done this? I'd be interested in your=20
> installation and what gadgetry you have.