[Willow_Warren]

Hi,

Following on from the water meter thread have any Anglian Water customers had their free Bits & Bobs fitted?

Hannah

[Aunt Sally]

Sounds interesting.  What are bits and bobs ?

[Willow_Warren]

Sorry I meant to put the link

http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/environment/how-you-can-help/using-water-wisely/we-products/

Hannah

[Mr Dog]

Yorkshire Water do something similar. I fitted a tap insert in the kitchen but took it back out. It simply restricts the water flow rate greatly increasing the time to fill the washing up bowl, kettle etc. Would probably be very useful on eg a tap you tend to leave running whilst washing hands - won't fit any that we have though.

[Willow_Warren]

I was thinking about the tap insert, not sure on the use in the kitchen unless you have a separate tap for washing... as you say most of the time in the kitchen you are filling something - wasn't sure how easily a "spray" would be fill  the narrow neck of my bunnies' water bottle?!  I was also concerned about how it would affect the hot water from the combi boiler, all well an good restrictin the flow, but the boiled seems to need a certain amount of flow in order for it to actually pull hot water from it instead of cold!

[surbie100]

We've just got a new tap with an aerator in it - I'm assuming that's the same thing? It takes a bit of getting used to with the reduced water coming through for filling kettles etc, but it doesn't affect our combi boiler noticeably. Our previous tap needed to be 'on' a certain amount for the boiler to kick in, and this is still the case, but it does work well.

I wash up under running water, so I did want something to reduce our water usage.

[Mr Dog]

I was thinking about the tap insert, not sure on the use in the kitchen unless you have a separate tap for washing... as you say most of the time in the kitchen you are filling something - wasn't sure how easily a "spray" would be fill  the narrow neck of my bunnies' water bottle?!  I was also concerned about how it would affect the hot water from the combi boiler, all well an good restrictin the flow, but the boiled seems to need a certain amount of flow in order for it to actually pull hot water from it instead of cold!

The insert didn't make the water 'spray' any wider than before - didn't make filling our Guinea pig's bottle any harder.