the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

choille,

you might want to have a look at this thread...

Its Tasterader

I joined last feb, but forgot all about it, but i have started doing it now.

basically you do taste surveys on the fruit and veg you buy from supermarkets etc, and then you send your till recipts to them and they re-emburse your money up to £25, you also get up £2.00 to cover the postage of the receipts to them

here is the link to the thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2246819

Its basically food for free

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

old rayburn fire in there, ( basically similar to what we have in our living room) he had 2 quite large pipes running from it, and they were running round the inner edge of the greenhouse... he only had it 'ticking' over, but he allways used to say it was cheaper and had more even heat than a parafin greenhouse heater....

this is a great idea! Some friends of mine have a teeny woodstove in their tackroom and it always seems incredibly indulgent to me but wonderful.

alfie_1

When i was small, ( ok i should say when i was younger as i am only just over 5ft..lol...) our next door neighbour was a keen gardener and used his greenhouse to the max .. just outside his greenhouse he had a little brick alcove type thing, with an old rayburn fire in there, ( basically similar to what we have in our living room) he had 2 quite large pipes running from it, and they were running round the inner edge of the greenhouse... he only had it 'ticking' over, but he allways used to say it was cheaper and had more even heat than a parafin greenhouse heater...( also maybe a heating idea in the future) ..

brilliant idea...
a local elderly chap uses exactly that set up for his huge greenhouse! he has a log/multi burner in the middle with pipes of hot water going all around the centre and he grows masses of stuf and sells the plants from spring into the summer .local builders etc just dump thier excess wood there and he chops it up for fuel so costs him only his time, he also has a head start on his planting. i get all my basket plants etc from him, he does a roaring trade. only open for about 4 months, makes his money then sits back...

choille

http://wildwritingfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2010/12/bit-of-thaw.html

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

our next door neighbour was a keen gardener and used his greenhouse to the max .. just outside his greenhouse he had a little brick alcove type thing, with an old rayburn fire in there, ( he had 2 quite large pipes running from it, and they were running round the inner edge of the greenhouse... he only had it 'ticking' over, but he allways used to say it was cheaper and had more even heat than a parafin greenhouse heater...( also maybe a heating idea in the future) ....

I agree that a smallish woodburning stove + maybe a few water pipes would work a treat in a greenhouse, but I've got a polytunnel there ready to build, and if there's one thing that doesn't like sparks.....!:eek:

A greenhouse will follow later, I expect. I want a lean-to with a substantial back wall, and that could have a wood burner. Lovely idea.

Wow! Now those are icicles, choille.....:cool:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

I agree that a smallish woodburning stove + maybe a few water pipes would work a treat in a greenhouse, but I've got a polytunnel there ready to build, and if there's one thing that doesn't like sparks.....!:eek:

A greenhouse will follow later, I expect. I want a lean-to with a substantial back wall, and that could have a wood burner. Lovely idea.

Wow! Now those are icicles, choille.....:cool:

could you adapt the idea, maybe something like a brick bbq type design with the back of the brick bbq a foot or so away from the outside of the polytunnel, with the rayburn fire then inside the brick bbq, and the water pipes mybe going under the edge of the poytunnel, and the once inside, run then round the edge of the polytunnel, or just straight down the middle...

going to have a nose around the internet to see if there is any diagrames to show whatt i am trying to say...lol..

edit..

some links, dont know if they are any good

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ae015

plus the last post has some links

http://www.greenbuildingpress.co.uk/forum_topic.php?thread_id=111

lostinrates

I'm cold just looking at choille's beautiful pictures. wind from the SE here this afternoon...so why is it still so darn cold?

Been out for a walk over the summer field (remember summer?)looking for a spot for those trees. DH now likes the idea of them being at the front entrance to the yard, but I'm worried passing people will think our crop is their food for free!

lostinrates

yee gads, we just ran out of heating oil!

Blimey. t really chugs through it, DH and I checked it two weeks ago and breathed a sigh of relief.!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

yee gads, we just ran out of heating oil!

Blimey. t really chugs through it, DH and I checked it two weeks ago and breathed a sigh of relief.!

what the heck are you going to do?

is this for just central heating or cooking etc?

I should imagine places are def closed until wednesday, maybe even closed until after the new year...

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

what the heck are you going to do?

is this for just central heating or cooking etc?

I should imagine places are def closed until wednesday, maybe even closed until after the new year...

Just heating and hot water. Thank god! we've brought feral cat down into the sitting room, where the not terribly effective woodburner has been going since it got the tentative all clear from the architect and surveyor to use. We've dug out an electric heater we have. we'll probably run that upstairs with the loft hatch off for pipes. So, cats and us will sleep in the sitting room, then the garden room next door dogs will get some heat from us/woodburner. If its really bad we'll have to pinch the light over the horses and/or trough later.


we have electric oven, so we'll be fine for a hot meal and we'll have a strip wash in front of the woodburner after lates outside.

We've coped with worse (the alpine winter with no roof!). we'll call on Wednesday morning and explain. we don't have kids, we are not elderly, better us than anyone in that position. we'll get the two doestic cats onto the day bed with us and all squish up. In fact, we'll be warmer tonight than usual I bet! Its the pipes that worry me.

If things get really bad I guess we could drive to my parents and pinch some of theirs but think its more effort and expense than its worth to do that.