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dhutch said:
Presumably somewhere there is a fitting, or valve, onto which you can connect a hose and just run it into a bath/loo/garden?
Google the brand name on the side?
That had me thinking, how did you fill it in the first place? I'm sure you didn't haul up the stairs full of water.Google the brand name on the side?
the mental image has amused me. netherfield said:
That had me thinking, how did you fill it in the first place? I'm sure you didn't haul up the stairs full of water.
Herein lies the problem - I was away on business when it was delivered and installed so the Ex-Wife was present. There problem herein is that she is now the Ex-Wife so she’ll be unhelpful to my plight. Before any smart-harris makes the joke I’ll do it - we drifted apart. The plug is on the top of the bed mattress so will need to be pumped as it will not syphon. I don’t fancy being a Tik-Tok’er so puncturing it is not an option.
My career as a seventies porn-star never got going because wide-screen TV’S had not been invented way back then.
Well when I was a student about a hundred years ago I had one in my flat share. I thought that I was clever and bought some electric blanket heating wire threw it under the bed to warm the water. I didn't notice that the wire crossed in a couple of places. Once the crossings melted together the effective resistance of the heating element was much reduced..... so there I was lying on this cold water bed and suddenly I saw and smelt SMOKE!!!!! Arrrrrrh! Then saw the water leaking out across the floor. OMG! Fortunately the two working brain cells realised that I had to cut the power.
But it's still leaking. It's too heavy to lift and the fill hose had been returned to the sailing club. So what do you do? You call your rugby mates.
Four of us crawled under the sack and literally crawled with it on top of us to the bathroom. It wouldn't go through the door... so two of us were crawling and two crouching to get an angle on the thing. Eventually we got it through the door and once through, that door was sealed with the weight...but only two of us were in the tiny bathroom.
Those intrepid two managed to get the filler hole over the bath lip and bit by bit or should I say liter by liter the bloody thing was emptied.
Sometime later I repaired it and bought a proper temperature controlled heater.
That bed became very popular with guests....
Anyhow years later, married with kids, I installed it again. Well you can guess the rest...
Never again.
But it's still leaking. It's too heavy to lift and the fill hose had been returned to the sailing club. So what do you do? You call your rugby mates.
Four of us crawled under the sack and literally crawled with it on top of us to the bathroom. It wouldn't go through the door... so two of us were crawling and two crouching to get an angle on the thing. Eventually we got it through the door and once through, that door was sealed with the weight...but only two of us were in the tiny bathroom.
Those intrepid two managed to get the filler hole over the bath lip and bit by bit or should I say liter by liter the bloody thing was emptied.
Sometime later I repaired it and bought a proper temperature controlled heater.
That bed became very popular with guests....
Anyhow years later, married with kids, I installed it again. Well you can guess the rest...
Never again.
This thread instantly reminded me of Steptoe & Son
Here's how to empty it!:-
https://youtu.be/2I-HFtiFiQY?t=1596
Here's how to empty it!:-
https://youtu.be/2I-HFtiFiQY?t=1596
Jam a length of hose into the valve(having locked the one-way open if there's one fitted), poke the hose out of a window so it dangles down nearly to ground level, go outside and suck on the hose until the water comes out and starts syphoning(given the water's been in there a while I'd recommend not swallowing any). Organise tea and medals.
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