Bath question

VeNT

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ok, the hot waters stoped working, blown diafram on the boiler, so I've no shower/baths, but its gonna be a few days and I was just pondering this question, how meny kettles of BOILING WATER (lets say a kettle holds 2L of water and that the water would be 100c exactly each time for simplicitys sake) would it take to heat up a bath of cold (5c) water (not sure of the volume of the bath, its a average one person jobbie so I'm sure someone can tell us.) to a resoanble tempereture

purly theoretical, I'm not gonna boil in excess of 10 kettles full of water just to have a bath, gonna go to the swimming pool insted.

come on guys, thinking caps on!
 
A lot, by the time youve filled the bath it would be cold anyway.

Fill the hand basin and have a quick wash that way, a lot faster and easier, or invade a neighbour if your friendly with any of them :p
 
Technically, if you fill the bath half full with cold water, and pour boiling water you shouldnt need too many to create an equilibrium.

KaHn

/edit, you could leave the water to warm up on its own.
 
Stellios said:
A lot, by the time youve filled the bath it would be cold anyway.

Fill the hand basin and have a quick wash that way, a lot faster and easier, or invade a neighbour if your friendly with any of them :p
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as I said, this is just for the hell of it, just wanted to know

wonder if I could run a pipe to my water cooling unit.
 
Hmm, If I could remember any of my thermodynamics and heat transfer stuff, I'd tell you, but I can't :p

Probably take a lot of keetles, though will depend on how much water is in the bath at the time.

Think best thing to do would run a bath, and let it settle for a few hours, let the water get up to room temperature a bit better, though depends on how cold it comes out the taps to begin with.
 
DaveyD said:
Hmm, If I could remember any of my thermodynamics and heat transfer stuff, I'd tell you, but I can't :p

Probably take a lot of keetles, though will depend on how much water is in the bath at the time.

Think best thing to do would run a bath, and let it settle for a few hours, let the water get up to room temperature a bit better, though depends on how cold it comes out the taps to begin with.
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well I shook it and it frose
 
It's barely worth the faff around. After two days of cold showers last year I decided to go for the kettle bath option. I was constantly boiling the kettle, and had every pan in the house full up with water and on the hob. Even then it took yonks. Just have a cold shower.
 
BrenOS said:
It's barely worth the faff around. After two days of cold showers last year I decided to go for the kettle bath option. I was constantly boiling the kettle, and had every pan in the house full up with water and on the hob. Even then it took yonks. Just have a cold shower.
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I would do, but the last time I did that it hurt, quite a bit.

you don't know how bleeding cold the water is here,
 
KaHn said:
Technically, if you fill the bath half full with cold water, and pour boiling water you shouldnt need too many to create an equilibrium.
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Thats what I thought, I have had to do that before and it seemed to work quite well. Obviously time consuming but if you really need a clean then you don't have a choice! :D
 
VeNT said:
I would do, but the last time I did that it hurt, quite a bit.

you don't know how bleeding cold the water is here,
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Cold water is cold water. My water went off in January. Girl.
 
VeNT said:
hahaa, the water here freases before it hits the bottom of the shower
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You live in cornwall, you dont exactally have the same problem as us northerners

KaHn
 
VeNT said:
purly theoretical, I'm not gonna boil in excess of 10 kettles full of water just to have a bath, gonna go to the swimming pool insted.
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With only 10 kettles of water you'd be lucky to get much over shin height I'd imagine, unless it's a very small bath.

Look at it this way, think how long it takes to fill a kettle from the tap on at full blast.... maybe 3 seconds? Whereas a bath will take more like 3minutes even if it's not especially deep. OK so you won't all the water to be boiling, but then the time spent faffing about will mean you are losing a lot of heat anyway.
 
I did this for months when the boiler went whilst i was doing up my last house.

It used to take about 45 minutes to get a decent bath, with the kettle and 3 large pans on the hob going continuously - with no need to add cold water is it cools down pretty quickly (at least in mid winter)

A lot of work and not cheap but boy deserved a bath after that.

Go's without saying to be carefull when your carrying pans full of boiling water round the house.
 
cut open you kettel, put the elament in the bath, it will take a bitty longer than it dose for a cuppy but should do u fine :)


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