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Hi, I've seen images online of fairly farmhouse-style old fashioned tables e.g. the free-standing kitchen unit type, which have a thin sheet of zinc coated onto the table top, bend over the sides, and nailed at the sides...

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now that is the ultimate goal. To invent a machine that loads, washes, dries, irons and folds everything automatically. I think this was achieved in Wallace and Grommit.

gas is more efficient for heating water to 60 degrees, a 3kw kettle raises that temperature to 100 degrees very quickly compared to a gas kettle, and the hob maintains that boiling point on a low setting. It's all about efficiency :)

It's 60 degree high pressure water, there's no chance of it being stale lol. I'm British, but I don't drink tea, I boil kale.

why not?

I always do that! I fill the kettle with hot water too :)

In a loop, the pump only needs to run for literally 30 seconds or so to replace all the water in the pipe with hot water from the tank, so the minute you walk in the kitchen, there will be hot water at the taps. It's more efficient with hot feed washers/dishwashers. Usually, you have to walk in...

That's a whole other story I won't get into regarding bacteria, chemical stain removers, extra concentrated laundry detergents, the contamination they cause in the environment and the effect of residual chemicals in fabrics on your health. You'd be better off using an eco-friendly...

domestic hot water loops are fairly simple. You have a pressurized hot water cylinder or plate heat exchanger. There is a return from the furthest hot draw-off point on the line back to a pump which returns the water to the bottom of the tank and heats it, killing any legionella (which is highly...

well, in an airtight house, the MVHR system is designed to provide an adequate amount of ventilation to deal with moisture from normal respiration and bathrooms, but not the kitchen. The kitchen hood must vent outside as grease will clog up the system. I think the latent moisture from a...

We seem to have gone on a laundry tangent. I think, all things considered, a gas vented dryer is the most cost-effective solution. Electricity is not an efficient way of heating anything unless we're talking about a heat pump. From what I've read, condensing dryers always release a certain...

it's this kind of thing that gives British people a bad name lol

Intelligent designers specify a hot water loop circuit back to the hot water cylinder, with a pump connected to a motion sensor in the kitchen, with all pipes insulated.

oooh tada http://www.crosslee.co.uk/english/whiteknight/gasdryersinfo.html

alot of Americans and Canadians have gas dryers. They don't seem to be available here.

I don't think there's much difference in efficiency between a condensing and a regular dryer. They are both 3kw, and both take a similar time to dry clothes (apparently). It's like the efficiency stickers you get on washing machines, it's total nonsense. Just because a machine is efficient at...

fair enough, yes, I've experienced many a washer-dryer, and they don't work. Maybe there are some condensing models that do actually work then. When you consider the efficiency of a building, you consider the building itself, how it is heated and how 'leaky' it is. I'm interested in the costs...

John, you can only improve the efficiency of things within your control. People still need to cook, do laundry, dry hair, make toast, take a bath e.t.c. which are inefficient things that people must still be allowed to do uninhibited. What you can control is the efficiency of the building...

condensing dryers don't work, they spin the **** out of the clothes, they stay wet, and just get really hot and use more energy because the cycle usually goes on for hours instead of 40 mins for a normal dryer