31/03/2023
I was fortunate enough to spend some time travelling Australia, the Top End TWICE! this time round. If its something you have been thinking of doing, do it! Best thing we ever did. One camp had a donkey hot water set up, for those of you who donβt know, its a drum or appropriate material water storage tank mounted above a fire to heat the water. I loved it! You would light a fire under it, wait 30 mins and go for a shower, just gotta keep a watch out as other campers would be sneaky to get in a hot shower before you π€£. The fire heats the water much like a gas flame of a gas storage hot water system, the hot water rises to the top and follows the pipe out to the plumbing fixtures it has been piped to such as a shower. As cool as these systems are please donβt go and make one for yourself as hot water systems have safety features inbuilt to prevent them exploding from over pressurising or delivering scolding hot water temperatures and in both instances can be fatal. This unit looked to have been welded by someone who knew what they were doing and also had a pressure relief valve installed π.
Plumbers are now required to install tempering valves when installing a new hot water system if there is not one already installed, this lowers the temperature down to 50 dagrees celsius medigating the risk of scolding to the user.
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Thanks Marc from M Plumbing.