Having holidayed in Spain many times I am puzzled - why here in the UK do we have WCs that have a box attached with a fangled mechanism to flush the toilet when in Spain they appear to just have a spring loaded operating valve on the end of a pipe? - and you can flush theirs many times in quick succession without having to wait for a box to fill with water - isn't their system more frugal in the amount of water used to flush the toilet too? Hope this isn't a silly question, only its been puzzling me for a while! Are we not allowed to install a Spanish style system here?
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Are you saying that their mains pressure is higher than ours? How do they manage that? Just curious...
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I think they managed it by designing their mass public water supply 200 years after we designed ours, with better technology and materials.
p.s. I know that Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) author of Gulliver's Travels, had piped water to his house, in his letters is a complaint that although he paid extra to have a higher pressure supply which should have reached his upstairs rooms
he often only got supply at the downstairs taps.
London had some lead water pipes laid by the Romans (as well as some oak ones) that were still in use, in part, 1800 years after they had been laid! I imagine they were laid for a simple gravity supply.
Our requirement for a cold water storage cistern in the loft came about because we had a low-pressure supply that could not keep pace at times of heavy usage.
I think they managed it by designing their mass public water supply 200 years after we designed ours, with better technology and materials.
p.s. I know that Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) author of Gulliver's Travels, had piped water to his house, in his letters is a complaint that although he paid extra to have a higher pressure supply which should have reached his upstairs rooms
he often only got supply at the downstairs taps.London had some lead water pipes laid by the Romans (as well as some oak ones) that were still in use, in part, 1800 years after they had been laid! I imagine they were laid for a simple gravity supply.
Our requirement for a cold water storage cistern in the loft came about because we had a low-pressure supply that could not keep pace at times of heavy usage.
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