Twitter

Hi guys. I have tried to get the hang of twitter. Have listened to the excited Californian drawl enthusing about it but so far I am completely lost as to what why how and where it helps. As Cameron says I think you have to be a bit of a twat to use it.

Anyone any ideas?

Two new features on our site

We have added two new features to our Little Plumber site. The first is a Win an LP1 competition. It's really easy. All you have to do is to click on the COMPETITION link and then answer the multiple choice question. We will have one winner a month and that winner will be the first person drawn at the end of the month. What can you lose? Exactly ! It's too good to miss.

The second feature is our new TESTER STRIP (pictured above) offer. All you have to do is ask and we will send you a TESTER STRIP. Just dip this in water and then when the strip changes colour, compare it to the coloured card on the site.

The best way to do this to stop you running backwards and forwards between the tap and your computer is to pour some clean tap water into a clean egg-cup or glass and bring it with you to you computer. The strips are small and can be used only once. You will soon see just how hard your water is. These strips are very accurate!

Don't forget we are always here to help and we don't have recorded messages and voice-mails. We generally answer the telephone straight and will help with any queries.

ECZEMA

ECZEMA


The aim of the Soft Water Eczema Trial (SWET) is to discover whether eczema can be improved by deliberately softening all water used in the home (except at one tap in the kitchen which will supply mains water for drinking)

Over 300 families have been invited to see whether the installation of a water softener will improve eczema and other skin conditions. The cost of this research is £1m funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme.

It seems to be pretty well known that people living in hard water areas suffer from eczema more than those in softer water areas so the experiment may well prove what many of us already know. Hard water causes more skin problems than soft water. No need to spend £1m finding that out.

So, the answer then is to install a water softener insn’t it? It seems either that or move to a soft water area. Now despite the problems associated with hard water including skin problems and certainly including the problems of limescale, hard water is actually very good for you. Everyone needs Calcium and there is a lot of it in hard water.

Calcium is essential for growing children and essential for proper cell metabolism. Without it we would have no teeth or skeletons.

It seems people who live in softer water areas where the Calcium content is lower may not suffer from skin problems but the level of heart attacks is greater. Anyway, if you use a softener you can’t drink the water and in fact require a dedicated tap in the kitchen for unsoftened water.

Now, if you want to have softer water with the Calcium still present, and you don’t want the hassle of a traditional salt filled softener and you want to get rid of eczema, you need a Little Plumber.

No chemicals or maintenance and you get a 12 MONTH MONEY BACK GUARANTEE so if your eczema doesn’t go then simply send back the LP unit for a full refund. Must be worth taking a chance! And they cost almost nothing to run and cost much less to buy than an “Old Salty”. And..you can fit them yourself.

FREE ENERGY SAVING DEVICE

FREE energy saving device

It virtually amounts to FREE ENERGY if you install a LITTLE PLUMBER water conditioner.

“Why” you ask?

If you live in a hard water area then you will undoubtedly be aware of the crusty formation of limescale around your taps and in your kettle.

What you can’t see is the layer upon layer of scale that has deposited on the heat exchangers in you boiler or hot water cylinder. These deposits can cause you huge energy loss because the heat generated simply cannot escape the heating elements to heat up the water. The limescale effectively acts as an insulator and stops generated heat from heating the water and this can cost a huge amount in extra wasted energy. Most domestic boilers in hard water areas will lose around £120 to £200 worth of energy in a year. The bigger the property, the more energy will be wasted.

Add to this the additional cost of replacing appliances like Dishwashers, Washing Machines plus the cost of corrosive chemicals to try and prevent limescale forming. Plus of course the additional cost of softeners salt and soaps to try and cope with all the problems of hard water and you can see that the total amount of money you waste each year is pretty substantial.

Enter the Little Plumber, which starts at under £100.00 and is absolutely GUARANTEED to remove and prevent limescale. In fact it is so good that Splendid Products Ltd who make the unit in Oxford will actually give you your money back if for “any reason” you are not completely satisfied with its performance.

So, by fitting a Little Plumber unit you will actually save more in a year than the unit costs you. You don’t have to be Einstein to work out that the saving is more than the cost so therefore the unit is virtually free. And if the saving in energy bills is greater than the cost of the unit then you are probably looking at a device that is not only FREE but will actually save you even more than it costs to start with.

Oh, and don’t forget…..it’s made in ENGLAND!!

Limescale prevented at Grimaldi House

Grimaldi Agencies have their UK Headquarters at Grimaldi House in St James Square in London.

They have installed a 150-litre tank, non-ventilated hot water cylinder running at 4.5 bars of pressure to heat all the water in the entire premises. The water is heated by two electric immersion heaters and it is on 24 hours a day. All might have been well if St James Square was in a soft water area but the water supply is unfortunately very hard.

The hard water caused such limescale precipitation on the immersion heaters that they had to be changed every week as they became very quickly encrusted with thick scale. This layer of scale not only increased the overall usage of electricity as the scale was preventing the heat transferring into the water but also caused the elements to fail regularly.

Banyards Ltd of Brune Street in London who are responsible for the maintenance of the hot water systems in Grimaldi House asked Splendid Products Ltd to advise on a simple method way of solving the problem which was in fact becoming something of a costly nightmare.

Splendid supplied an LP4 electronic water conditioner which was fitted by Banyards and now over three months has elapsed with no problems at all. A huge saving in terms of downtime and energy.

The LP4 costs around £3.00 a year to run and requires no maintenance once fitted. It is therefore not surprising that other facility managers are very interested in this cheap and very effective method of solving the expensive and time consuming problem of Limescale.

The LP units are all made in Oxford in the U.K. by Splendid products Limited

The Darling Buds of May

The Darling Buds of May

It really doesn’t matter what the Chancellor says in his important budget speech, the plain fact is that politicians in the main have let us the voters down, badly.

If the Darling buds are to bloom and we are to see the green shoots of recovery, we are going to have to do a hell of lot more than improve the efficiency of an over weaned, over burgeoning and generally overweight governmental system that has the weirdest bunch of groups known to man in it’s midst. Yes cut them out get rid of overpaid part-timers with their gold plated pensions and try and save the billions we need to stop generations of Britains carrying the weight of debt into the next millennium.

But there are ways we can stop waste now. We do need electric cars Mr Brown but despite hours spent on the ‘phone trying to find them I ask you seriously, where are they?

There’s a way all of us who put up with the scourge of limescale and hard water for instance can immediately stop the waste of heating up layers of scale in our boilers, make our washing machines and dishwashers last longer and generally have softer water without the need for “old salty” water softeners.

Just by fitting a Little Plumber unit in your house or premises you can save a fortune in heating bills, experience softer water and all for the magnificent sum of £3.00 a year in running costs.

Yes if you install one of these you really might start seeing the darling buds of may begin to bloom in the money you save. Your planet will thank you for it too since by using less energy you’ll produce less CO2 the greenhouse gas. It has been estimated that four power stations could be closed with the energy saved if everyone in the UK who lived in a hard water area fitted these units.
So Mr Darling, there’s something you could do straight away…just cut the tax on Little Plumbers and even give a grant to people in hard water areas towards buying one. Those darling buds might bloom quicker than you think and you wouldn’t have to sack anybody!!