Avoid using GAS and ELECTRIC !

ceridwen

katieowl wrote: »

Another book I'd like to know if anyone has read (and if anyone would like to lend me??? I am very trustworthy ) is called "How to live without electricity and learn to like it" by Anita Evangelista....it's apparently currently out of print and is a USA publication. It's about £40 on Amazon :eek: secondhand! That's a lot of kilowatts if it's not a good read! In the States it's about £7, but US Amazon doesn't have it new either.


Regards

Kate

Sounds a good one! And - if there's any generous helpful owners of said book out there:D - I'd be really interested in "joining a queue" for a borrow of it myself - and I'm also trustworthy, etc, etc.....

<<cough...EDIT...I've just found:

www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/evangelista73.html

katieowl_2

Yeah I saw that too, a while back, Ceridwen....I was wondering/hoping? if the book had a bit more detail.... You know how it is with books, you lust after them, thinking they will solve all your problems, and then discover you could have probably written it yourself (well I do sometimes anyway )

We had a powercut in SE London a couple of weekends ago, and the panic it bought to the neighbourhood was a site to behold :rolleyes: It definately brought home to me that we didn't have a radio that worked without electricity - and I'm thinking of buying a Freeplay one - if it had been a real emergency we should have one.

I was probably better equipped than most of my neighbours, having no money in the bank meant I wasn't fretting about the cashpoints :rotfl: and I at that moment I didn't need any petrol, I had another means of boiling my kettle & cooking breakfast, also a working torch and a huge supply of candles. Most people were standing in the street wringing their hands.

The other thing I thought we should have to hand is a back up means of charging the mobiles...

Regards

Kate

mardatha

somewhere there is a thread on "Not using elect/gas this winter " ...I found it once and for the life of me can't find it again ! where is it please??

mrs_mix

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=247646&highlight=using+gas+OR+electric+this+winter

is this the one?

mardatha

yaaay ta !

mardatha

its got to be offical, it was on the news again tonight. I cant understand why nobody is speaking out and asking questions. We seem to just sit back and accept everything they say now.

Penelope_Penguin

mardatha wrote: »

its got to be offical, it was on the news again tonight. I cant understand why nobody is speaking out and asking questions. We seem to just sit back and accept everything they say now.

What has

Penny. x

ceridwen

? Presumably the absolutely massive hike due on our fuel bills later this year?

That - as compared with the darn large price rise we've already had on them earlier this year.

If this is what "no-one is saying anything about" - then, well I dont understand either why there isnt a huge outcry (particularly in view of the fact that theres that darn VAT levied on our fuel bills still by the Govt). I believe the power companies are still making - and keeping - huge profits at our expense if I'm not mistaken? To coin a phrase "To them that hath shall be given even more" it seems.

knittingnelly

DH is an electrician and he reckons the freezer will only cut in and out as it needs to anyway - governed by the thermostat. Sooooo I guess switching it off forcibley would only give it more work to do when it was back on??? We had 3 at one point and when we worked out what they were costing us we switched two off and got rid Now I need another for all the meal planning and batch freezing I'm going to do :P

Samphire

susan1 wrote: »

be careful about putting any sort of electric heater in the bathroom unless its fixed high up on the wall, water and electric don't mix:sad:

Bearing this in mind, does anyone know what's the most efficient way of providing heat in a small downstairs loo? Ours is at the back of the kitchen (a room that gets very cold as it has a v small radiator, big double windows and a tiled floor) - it's unheated and on the corner of the house (ie two external walls). It has a small single glazed draughty window that I want to replace this summer if I can. To be honest, we just don't use it in winter cos it's so cold that you worry that your bum will freeze to the seat :eek: This winter I think we'll need it though as DS1 is now potty trained and the DS2 is crawling - I don't want to have to leap around opening stairgates every time I hear the familiar cry "I NEED a WEEEEEEEE". When the central heating was serviced I asked the guy how much to put a radiator in there and he said over £200!!! I was thinking something to take the chill off rather than wanting the room to be toasty, in my experience those wall mounted electric bathroom heaters cost a bomb to run and as the room's not used for more than a few minutes each time I don't think there would be time to really feel the benefit. I also don't think they would be practical cos I'd have to turn it on for him every time and he'd be obsessing about how to turn it on an off himself (he's obsessed with anything electrical). I was wondering whether I'd be able to find a cheap electric heated towel rail, do they cost much to run? Or has anyone got any other ideas?