briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
You ain't gonna chill if the house is too hot!
Central Heating - on yet?
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You ain't gonna chill if the house is too hot!
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Or to get down into the kitchen and sit near the Rayburn.
briantrumpet
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BTW, both of my houses (😉) have walls that are about 3ft thick and have small windows (both old, and one of cob, one of limestone), so I do have some advantages over modern houses, if you ignore the draughts.
briantrumpet
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One of the most ridiculous inventions unless you have a big draughty farmhouse with copious supplies of free well-seasoned firewood: you end up with a kitchen that is too hot to stay in in the winter as it's got to stay on full blast to heat the hot water and do the cooking, and you have to open all the doors and windows in the summer if you use it for cooking.
No once the wood burner gets up to speed we have open the French windows🤣🤣🤣
Just found out that the radiator is on in far side of the living/ dinning room. I suspect this is because the thermostat is on the wall by the French window and even though its turned down. If it’s getting a blast of the current outside temp 3 degrees it’s turning the heating on.
Richard A Thackeray
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Not so much heating related,. but it's frosty!
My car's turned from black to 'sparkly white'!
My car's turned from black to 'sparkly white'!
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Still managing on one storage heater turned on to about half, plus the fire in the sitting room that does the back boiler. Although this evening is the first night of the season that I've got it stoked up. House is currently at 18C, both upstairs and down.
But I have spent some time chasing down those niggly little draughts and doing some repairs to the sash windows (inner windows, outer are casements). Trouble is, when you live in a winky wonky little cottage, things don't always fit quite right.
I've found some lovely woollen fabric in my craft / sewing store, and I shall be making some curtain liners and a curtain for the sitting room door - which leads to the unheated hallway. For the latter, no point in heating a space that is really only used to store bikes, cook books, firewood and outdoor clothing. That one door seals off the rest of the house, which is basically just a two up, two down.
But I have spent some time chasing down those niggly little draughts and doing some repairs to the sash windows (inner windows, outer are casements). Trouble is, when you live in a winky wonky little cottage, things don't always fit quite right.
I've found some lovely woollen fabric in my craft / sewing store, and I shall be making some curtain liners and a curtain for the sitting room door - which leads to the unheated hallway. For the latter, no point in heating a space that is really only used to store bikes, cook books, firewood and outdoor clothing. That one door seals off the rest of the house, which is basically just a two up, two down.
briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
Must admit I was very happy not to have chosen the shorts option this afternoon... it was distinctly chilly on my return from lessons at 8pm, and the frost was starting to form on cars.
At least it's only four weeks to the earliest sunset.
briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
Good effort all round!
briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
So, apart from the woodburner and one radiator that's accidentally turned on, you've not really got any heating on. Have I got that right? 😉🤣
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
He is to heating what Al Gore is to lighting.
briantrumpet
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- Devon & Die
Fairly impressively, the house has only dropped 1.5C overnight with no heating on, despite it being just 4.5C outside.
No apart from the bathroom towel rails. Which means the radiator on the landing is on plus the underfloor heating in utility room and kitchen. So no we haven’t any heating on, although I did fire up the portable oil filled radiator in the garage to day when I was climbing on the board. Due to it being 3 degrees in there and needed to warm my fingers up between goes.😉
