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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: No Hot Water!
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 05:30:50 GMT
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- eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot) writes:
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- [me]
- |> J> The hysterisis in the thermostat is generally fixed. You have a couple of
- |> J> options. You can turn the thermostat up higher so that you use less
- |> J> of hotter water during your shower. This will probably be very effective,
- |> J> particularly if someone has been propagandized into turning the heat
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- >Or they have been correctly warned that water hotter than 120F can cause life-
- >threatening scalding of little children who turn it on full blast on them-
- >selves in the tub.
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- Figured I'd flush a safety nazi or two out with that one. I'd be amused
- to hear any scenario you could come up with where a child could receive
- a "life threatening" scalding in which the parent was not being irresponsible.
- If the parent is responsible enough to worry about water temperature,
- s/he is responsible enough to keep the kid out of boiling water.
-
- PS: The stove can also cause life threatening burns and can burn your
- house down. Do you also run your stove at reduced power?
-
- John
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