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    Mmmm! Good practice or not i have been for Years ,both here and in Penrith Running my Air Cons well below that mark,and so far nothing has happened to any of the Units we have had!
    In Penrith where it sometimes reached up to the 40 Degree mark,i always had my setting on about /2122 and that ran most all day.
    Here last Week when we got those 36 Temps i was running it at 19/21 sometimes lower and so far all seems AOK.
    I like to feel the Cool Air not just the Room being kept sort of a level Temp.
    But we all have out likes and ways I guess,
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    I assume / hope you guys that have air con units are chlorinating the condensate trays on a regular basis.
    The condensate tray is one of the breeding areas for the legionaries disease.
    The legionaries bug develops at between 40c and 60c.
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    Off topic a bit but a follow up to Vics post.I seen this headline somewhere and I didn't read the full story and I cannot find where it was I read it.The story was about the new build Royal Liverpool hospital,not sure of the figure but 14 comes to mind.The hospital was near completion so the water must've been turned on they now have to employ these people (if it was 14) to go around the hospital and run the taps to stop Legionnaires taking hold.There would be a lot of taps as it was individual rooms en-suite for each patient.For those that don't know the hospital was laying idle because the builder Carillion went bust.

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    Jim, BBC ran that story during the week, also thy cannot switch the lights off for some reason.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Brady View Post
    Off topic a bit but a follow up to Vics post.There would be a lot of taps as it was individual rooms en-suite for each patient.For those that don't know the hospital was laying idle because the builder Carillion went bust.

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    water bye laws require all public buildings, e.g. hotels, hospitals, schools etc. have to have annual checks and treatments for legionnaires and it includes all outlets.It was introduced in early 90s and if I recall correctly was called Water Bye Law 30. It stipulates standards of cleanliness for water storage tanks, temp controls of stored water, insect screens etc.
    I was in corrosion protection business then (still am) and there was a rush to get tanks up to standard. Some of the water storage tanks in hospitals would have frightened the life out of anyone, for instance, dead birds were common and in one prominent London hospital, half a dead cat, no trace of the the other half.
    That is not a story, I was involved directly with projects all over the UK
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Taylor View Post
    water bye laws require all public buildings, e.g. hotels, hospitals, schools etc. have to have annual checks and treatments for legionnaires and it includes all outlets.
    That is not a story, I was involved directly with projects all over the UK
    Had a great deal to do with this working for a major international company and hospitals Tony and comfirm all that you say, I did the Legionella Assesors course for the inspection of premises which was both interesting and scary at times. Some of the finds were truly frightening to say the least. Micro biology is very interesting.
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    I don't remember what year it was but when this legionella assessment first came up there was a huge infection at the BBC and I think the chief engineer in charge of the building ended up in jail that certainly brought it right to the front do everybody's attention we never had a problem with the cold water systems but we used to make sure that the hot water systems were hotter to keep the bugs out of the pipes the biggest worry was in heat exchangers for refrigeration and we used to regularly keep the chlorine levels up and in honesty in over 20 years we never had a problem
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    Quote Originally Posted by vic mcclymont View Post
    I assume / hope you guys that have air con units are chlorinating the condensate trays on a regular basis.
    The condensate tray is one of the breeding areas for the legionaries disease.
    The legionaries bug develops at between 40c and 60c.
    Vic
    The majority here in Oz are the refrigerated type so that is not a problem.
    With the evaporative house hold ones the water is on a running basis on the newer ones so not a problem.
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