Save on your electric bill!

[Maz]

Make ££££'s from your home. SELL IT!

 

[Hitchington]

Stay single and don't have children.

Or send the children out to chop down trees for the wood burning stove.

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Go on a meter and find yourself a Black Box.

 

[Night Train]

Use one of these:

instead of one of these:

when cutting timber, as I have been doing today.

 

[Maz]

Use one of these:

I bet the guy who presents New Yankee Workshop wouldn't know what this is.
He's got a power tool for every job!

 

[Night Train]

I bet the guy who presents New Yankee Workshop wouldn't know what this is.
He's got a power tool for every job!

He also thinks the whole world can be held together with brads!
The guy's an ass and shouldn't call himself a cabinet maker, he is just a wood machinist.

 

[HovR]

[QUOTE 2175806, member: 9609"]You get what you pay for with LEDs, some of the cheap ones are truly awful, and I don't think the 4w ones come anywhere near the 50w halogens they claim to replace in brightness.
[/quote]

I guess it could differ between brands and models of LEDs, but mine which I believe claimed to be 4 watts are just as bright if not brighter than the halogens they replaced.

 

[Saluki]

We rarely have lights on in the house and live by the light of the fishtanks. Heating is taken care of by a woodburner & home-made eco fan (thank you youtube & hobby shop), lots of stuff lives outside in plastic containers to keep cool in winter (or glass containers in the case of beer) and our electricity bill is less than a tenner a week. We are all electric so are pretty chuffed with that. Its the emersion heater and cooker that takes all the juice.

 

[Lard Armstrong]

I turned the boiler down, they can let rip with the thermostat all they like now. They haven't figured out why the shower is colder yet.

 

[Globalti]

Why are some women permanently cold? I keep the digital room 'stat in the hall set on 19, which means the bedrooms and lounge get to a nice comfortable 21 degrees before the boiler cuts out. However I know that the minute I leave the house for a 2 week trip that room 'stat gets turned up to 21 in the hall. The lounge radiator has a TRV on it but she turns that up to full, thus defeating the object of a TRV so that when the woodburner is lit the lounge is sometimes so hot that I sit sweating and have to open the door. It got so hot last year that it woke up the larva of an Asian Longhorn beetle that was living in the frame of the sofa and it started noisily chewing the wood, so I had to dismantle the sofa to get it out.

 

[summerdays]

I guess it could differ between brands and models of LEDs, but mine which I believe claimed to be 4 watts are just as bright if not brighter than the halogens they replaced.

I agree. We have had some good ones and some bad ones (we just put the bad ones in places like the utility room where it doesn't matter if the light is cold). Now the main light fitting we are waiting for them to improve is those little tiny lights (about an inch long). We have bought one bulb for it but it was far too blue, and they are still expensive. We've had some good bulbs from Ikea.

 

[Night Train]

I converted some 500w halogen uplighters to CFLs about 15 years ago, a long before they became commercially available.

 

[Cheddar George]

Spend £20,000 on solar panels for your roof, this will help the people who install solar panels to pay their electricity bills.

..... and the people who don't have solar panels can pay you for having solar panels. It's a win-win situation.(unless you don't have solar panels)

 

[postman]

Do your washing up while you're in the bath.[/quote]
Love it that made me laugh.

 

[longers]

Only use just enough water to cover your spuds.