Afternoon all, well done DD, hopefully some of your new customers will come back again. I don't know where you get all your energy from! Good result @raisingirl, apart from the oven of course. @Allotment Boy, I went to the Floriade once very many years ago thinking it was going to be like Chelsea but was distinctly unimpressed - they didn't even have tulips then. Hope you enjoy your cruise. Had to get up early today as our electrician called to quote for a new electric shower. However it turns out that might not solve our problem as we have a combi boiler and no tanks. We find if someone's showering in the en-suite and another person turns the tap on ( usually me!) the shower stops or goes cold. It's also annoying when we have visitors but only one of us can shower at any one time. Hence it takes over an hour to get four of us ready for breakfast. The electrician has suggested we talk to a plumber/shower specialist to see if a new, more powerful boiler would improve matters. Anybody else have the same problem?
I've done some weeding and attacked the Jap. Anemone again which doesn't want to die. I'm not impressed with the new non-glyphosate weedkillers, don't think they work at all well.
No gardening today, have to admit I went back to bed this pm, too cold in the house. We have combi boiler problems @Lizzie27, turning any tap on when shower is going, causes big water pressure reduction.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
@punkdoc, I rather think now that it's a common problem with combi boilers, one that I don't recall being warned against when we had ours installed. Thought it a brilliant idea at the time to have constant hot water on tap.
Actually, thinking about it more deeply, we're lucky to have more than one shower in the first place, so perhaps I shouldn't grumble.
You work so hard @D0rdogne_Damsel, I hope you get time to enjoy your garden.
@Lizzie27 in Norfolk our water pressure is dreadful, not enough to work the garden sprinkler properly. But we do have a cold water tank in the loft and a hot water tank, heated by the boiler, oil fired. The shower has a thermostat on the tap which stops the water being too hot or too cold.
In France all the water is from the mains, no tank in the loft, but there is a hot water tank which is heated by electricity. When I moved there there wasn't a thermostat on the shower so if anyone turned on a hot tap elsewhere the person in the shower got doused in cold water. I've had thermostatic taps fitted, also on the new shower I had put in and the problem is solved. However the water pressure is good there.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yes @Lizzie27 , this only takes place every 10 years, we went 20 years ago when it was more like Hampton Court show with a bit more environmental stuff. It seems now, its all about eco living and adapting urban living to mitigate against climate change. Still interesting but not really a garden/flower show.
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ Hello @Pat E … looks like your weather’s warm and wet today … ours is cool and cloudy, but dry.
We don’t have an electric shower … we have one straight off the water system here (combi boiler) and the pressure’s really good … much better than the electric showers we find in holiday cottages etc… mind you we only have the one shower and our water pressure is good … when we had the problem with the new meter the other week the plumber who was sent to sort it all out remarked on how good our pressure is … he said that in this area of Norwich the mains water is pumped rather than gravity fed from a water tower. So now we know 🚿 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning folks. Ladies, what are your indoor/outdoor temperatures,I'm sure you won't take offense at my asking (I know we're all different and Hosta gets frost bite at under 30c) just curiousity. I know there's a thread running about last frosts. My old friend in Suffolk said it was overcast,her old mans poorly, but they haven't got the heating on. 6 this morning here,9c, outside,14c in the conservatory where I am,and 16 indoors. Sun will soon be in the lounge. Took food to son. Met one friend,in her lunch break,on to second friend. Got to Ashdown forest,lots of roadworks,hit rush hour had driven over 90 miles,my right ankle was aching.i pulled up near the ice cream van,got out with my little bit of change,a small cone was £2.50,I had £2.10,he told me not to worry,and really filled up the cone. Wasn't that sweet! Stretched my legs and off home,so tired . We did a lot of homework before having a new boiler, discounted the Combi, because you have no stored water,not recommended for families because of the problems you have mentioned. Now, since having the solar panels,we are using the emersion heater for the water. We have pretty good water pressure,but a manual electric shower, just for the continued hot water and pump,as it's a bungalow and the tanks are next to it everyone I know,apart from my sons who both live alone complain about the Combis
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Good result @raisingirl, apart from the oven of course.
@Allotment Boy, I went to the Floriade once very many years ago thinking it was going to be like Chelsea but was distinctly unimpressed - they didn't even have tulips then. Hope you enjoy your cruise.
Had to get up early today as our electrician called to quote for a new electric shower. However it turns out that might not solve our problem as we have a combi boiler and no tanks. We find if someone's showering in the en-suite and another person turns the tap on ( usually me!) the shower stops or goes cold. It's also annoying when we have visitors but only one of us can shower at any one time. Hence it takes over an hour to get four of us ready for breakfast. The electrician has suggested we talk to a plumber/shower specialist to see if a new, more powerful boiler would improve matters.
Anybody else have the same problem?
I've done some weeding and attacked the Jap. Anemone again which doesn't want to die. I'm not impressed with the new non-glyphosate weedkillers, don't think they work at all well.
We have combi boiler problems @Lizzie27, turning any tap on when shower is going, causes big water pressure reduction.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Actually, thinking about it more deeply, we're lucky to have more than one shower in the first place, so perhaps I shouldn't grumble.
@Lizzie27 in Norfolk our water pressure is dreadful, not enough to work the garden sprinkler properly. But we do have a cold water tank in the loft and a hot water tank, heated by the boiler, oil fired. The shower has a thermostat on the tap which stops the water being too hot or too cold.
In France all the water is from the mains, no tank in the loft, but there is a hot water tank which is heated by electricity. When I moved there there wasn't a thermostat on the shower so if anyone turned on a hot tap elsewhere the person in the shower got doused in cold water. I've had thermostatic taps fitted, also on the new shower I had put in and the problem is solved. However the water pressure is good there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello @Pat E … looks like your weather’s warm and wet today … ours is cool and cloudy, but dry.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.