{"id":769,"date":"2012-11-11T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T07:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2012-11-11T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T07:54:16","slug":"why-are-the-overflow-holes-in-a-bath-not-big-enough-to-cope-with-the-taps-on-full-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Why are the overflow holes in a bath not big enough to cope with the taps on full blast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"design faults\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5071\/5907132328_137b29043a_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/18432837@N00\/5907132328\">asmythie<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by johnstonemac<\/i>: Why are the overflow holes in a bath not big enough to cope with the taps on full blast?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never done it-I just thought this must be a design fault.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a bit thick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by jay p<\/i><br \/>the overflow drain works on gravity ( it&#8217;s realy a vent for the drain) but your fawcet is under pressure. if you hooked the fawcet directly to the drain it would flow fine.but it isn&#8217;t so it don&#8217;t. just the way it is. good question, you are thinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by asmythie Question by johnstonemac: Why are the overflow holes in a bath not big enough to cope with the taps on full blast? I&#8217;ve never done it-I just thought this must be a design fault. I&#8217;m a bit thick. Best answer: Answer by jay pthe overflow drain works on gravity ( it&#8217;s realy a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2017,2020,2018,439,976,2016,2015,2019],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-bath","tag-blast","tag-cope","tag-enough","tag-full","tag-holes","tag-overflow","tag-taps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}