home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!ecicrl!clewis
- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: concerns with well water and a septic tank
- Message-ID: <4089@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 03:59:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.185522.17568@siemens.com> <4086@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <1992Dec30.155322.29352@siemens.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
- Lines: 37
-
- In article <1992Dec30.155322.29352@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
- >>or paints. Minimal grease. Low or zero phosphate detergents.
-
- >I've been using the Arm & Hammer stuff because it doesn't have itchy enzymes.
- >I *think* it's low phosphate, but I don't think the box lists the content.
-
- A&H is mostly or completely Borax I think...
-
- >>Even with pilot lights, they're burning far fewer fossil fuels than an electric
- >>stove does in the power plant that's supplying it.
-
- >Agreed -- what really concerns me, though, is that one of them will go out and
- >spit methane into my apartment. My mother had a stove with "electronic"
- >ignition something like 25 years ago, and I'd never *seen* one with a pilot
- >until about a year and a half ago.
-
- I've never seen an electronic one...
-
- With two pilots, both would have to go out before problems arise...
-
- I *think* they have thermal interlocks, so that if the pilots go out, the
- gas shuts off. Gas furnaces certainly do. Look for what appears to be a thick
- bare wire running around where the pilot is.
-
- >>>I find it out when the pump drops the voltage throughout the electrical web.
-
- >>Probably not. The pump will either just shut itself off, or make a smelly,
- >>hot and loud sound as it leaves this earth.
-
- >The place also has a shitty electrical system. When the well pump (or the
- >compressor in the fridge) turns on, the lights dim and the TV glitches.
-
- That ain't all that unusual.
- --
- Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
- Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
- Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
-