Re: Inside out (Was: More on wifi range - Pi PICO W Oil level sensor)

No, it was only done to save money.

John

It seems amazing to me doing that in Britain, were pipes can freeze. Now I understand the description of an hotel (Devon) in a novel I'm reading (Ruth Rendell, The secret house of death).

I think the issue is that pre war, many many houses had no water, no inside toilet, no heating beyond a coal fire no electricity and so on.

Hence they were upgraded to a water tank in the roof and some form of sporadic mains water supply, fed via something coming out of the ground and into the house. Drainage was often external - room size was small and the pipes were just routed outside for ease of installation. And indeed access for clearing blockages.

Retrofitting modern infrastructure to old houses is massively expensive.

My city is ancient, three thousand years, but there is no river. Well water tends to be salty, from the sea; mixed often. I don't know how they survived. I think the water in sufficient quantities arrived in

Would that be Cadiz?

No. I think it begins with a C but it's not Cadiz. Cartagena? If it is, it looks like a fabulous place to visit.