Re: Smart Bath Plug

["Malcolm Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No idea.  UK baths have overflows too - we may only have single phase
electricity supplies, but we're not that backward ;-)
More useful might be a plug that lets the water out if it's too hot, rather
than just changing colour.

Mal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark Guy" <guy.clark@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:17 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Smart Bath Plug


>
> HI!
>
> This may be a silly question, but why would anyone need such a plug?
>
> In the USA, anyway, bathtubs and sinks generally have an overflow
drain
> built in, a few inches from the top... the water can't get any higher
than
> that (especially with our new "water saving" faucets that
severely limit
> the
> flowrate (I hate those things!!!!)).
>
> Guy Clark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:42 AM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Smart Bath Plug
>
>
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> I had one of these from about 5 years back but without the temp colour
> change, think it was from the Ideal Home show.  They do work in that
you
> can't overfill the bath -  the version I had used a magnetic hold
> arrangement.  The only thing that wasn't too good was that when
> activated at say 18" of water it would empty down to say 6"
before
> closing again.   So if you filled your bath and then got in it (and
> displaced a lot of water like me) then the bath would empty to ankle
> depth around you :-(
>
>    K
>
> Rob Mouser wrote:
>
>>Just spotted this in construction news:
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>>"Safety Plug"
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>>Nottingham Rehab Supplies has launched a new bath plug with safety
> features.
>>The plug uses a pressure activated system that releases excess
water when
> an
>>unattended bath reaches a certain depth and also alerts the user to
>>dangerously hot water by a special colour-change feature.
>>
>>www.nrs-uk.co.uk <http://www.nrs-uk.co.uk/>  Tel:
01530 418 222
>>
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