RE: Auto Filling Bath Project...

["Marcus Warrington" <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd always thought I would put another inline electric valve in
the



Good call... I'd not thought of that....sometimes the obvious isn't
obvious :-)



I suppose that the one down side is that  if I could automate the actual
plug (rather than a secondary valve) then I could automate the actual
emptying of the bath as well. e.g. a set period of time after filling
(2hrs.. or when no occupancy detected etc) the bath would empty itself,
or maybe it should always empty before filling.  Possibly even a pulsor
glued to the back itself could detect if someone was in or out of the
bath...



You wouldn't think that this was really required but teenagers (and
sometimes SWMBO!) are master of expending the least amount of energy...
and actually emptying a bath or turning off a light seems like a lot of
effort to them.



Mmm.. I wonder if its possible to install a basin style popup waste (the
one that uses a rod rather than cable) below the current one, and have
it PUSH up the plug rather then the cable. Would mean that I would have
to restrict the pipe work to 32mm instead of 40mm but that would just
mean it takes longer to empty.. hardly a big concern...



Marcus

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Kevin Hawkins
Sent: 21 August 2007 12:06
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Auto Filling Bath Project...



Marcus Warrington wrote:
> As part of my ongoing bathroom refit..(can't believe this is taking me
so long), I've spent the weekend automating the filling of the bath...
>

Interesting - something I've long been intending but not yet done -
like so many other things.
> The big stumbling block at the moment is trying to automate the popup
waste... currently we have to remember to make sure the plug is
"in"
after emptying the bath, otherwise the next autofill just goes down the
drain rather than filling the bath.
>
>
I'd always thought I would put another inline electric valve in the
overflow pipe (powerfail open) . It would have to be a large diameter
I guess but I'm sure they exist. Pressure would be low.

K





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