Hot water - Clean water - No water...

The water heater was finally installed the weekend before last and we let it sit and soak up the rays for a full 24 hours before hopping in to test the shower temperature.  It was majorly disappointing actually!  Tepid just about sums it up.  Pretty frustrating after having spent a small fortune on the kit. The water pressure was also shockingly bad so we went to sleep a bit disheartened that night and didn´t really know what to do.  It wasn´t until the following afternoon when Tony tried the water again and just about scalded his hand that we cheered right up again!  It seems it just takes a while to get 150 litres from cold to piping hot but now that it´s heated up, it´s averaging a nice and steamy 65´C which is just perfect!  We even have to mix it with cold water and that´s in the morning, having had no sunlight all through the night.

The only minor problem we have been having is a bit of a water shortage.  It has hardly rained in two weeks and the tanks are getting a bit low, especially with the showering time increased significantly with the temperature.  One big storm will fill the tanks and usually there´s one every few days but not this week.  It´s funny actually because it´s the first week we have everything up and running, we have the water heater, we bought a fancy drinking water filter with about 8 different filter stages, figured out the washing machine problems (electronic panel machines dont work because of the dirty electricity from the AC/DC convertion), the float switches are installed in the tanks to make sure the pump stops and starts at the right time, put a new filter in the down pipe and washed the gutters, even installed an automatic water system for the hens............ but no rain!

H for HOT water!!