Re: Emergency Water Turn-Off?

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Matt" <mattmorgan64@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

> Basically they are about to release a new version -
> FloLogic 2005 sometime soon. And mfr/sales of FloLogic
> 2000 are suspended - they sold all of em.

I'll bet someone's got one in the supply chain somewhere.  I wonder why
there's a total redesign with no overlap or closeout deals.  Were some
Flologic units behaving illogically?  :-)  Z?  Are you listening?  This is
sometimes what happens in patent disputes.  A company will stop selling
product X and redesign it completely to avoid paying royalties.

> I didn't ask all the details of differences between the '00 and the
> '05, but apparantly the '05 can be installed outdoors.

Who would want to?  The less HA controls accessible from the outside, the
better.  I guess some people don't have basements (which blew my mind when I
first travelled to California and other climes).  If the land there is so
expensive by the square foot, why not double the livable area with a
basement?

I found a Businesswire article:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_June_20/ai_87519360

That talks about the spurt in Flologic sales after the big forest fires of
that year.  Fires melt hoses and pipes and add serious water damage to the
fire damage.  They say:

|Property damage in the U.S. resulting from home
|plumbing leaks is second only to hurricanes as the
|most costly insurance claim, according to insurance
|industry reports. Burst washing machine hoses
|constitute one of the most common sources of
|residential water damage, accounting for more
|than $150 million in claims each year in the U.S.
|Frozen water pipes contribute an estimated
|$400-500 million a year.

Second to hurricanes is not where I would have rated plumbing leaks.  Who
knew?  I guess I will be accelerating my pipe mike tests.

--
Bobby G.