Preparing for winter II

mardatha

My god lookat that weather eye site ! 5 star probability of snow and high winds !! And just as I read it, the wind started picking up outside...! I like winter- nice dark long cosy nights...WHOOOHOOO!

adelight

annie123 wrote: »

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/


weather report for next week:

Snow in Scotland, and the north of England and just cold for the rest of us!

Stand by your fleeces......are we all prepared?:D

Uh oh, I think NOW is the time I stop hesistating and get more thermals, fleeces and put the ugly brown curtains back up! And get some grit for my alley. I saw the max high for wednesday is 5 degrees lower than today and as my house is usually the same temp as the max high I'm not looking forward to that! I keep taking breaks from writing to warm my hands as the cold is making them go numb

Confuzzled

Mamzie wrote: »

But after last winter.... I got stressed out at the thought of this winter, as I have lost most of my mobility due to spd so can't help him much.

ohhh i feel for you *BIG HUGS* i had spd quite fiercely during pregnancy with my daughter. mostly went away after her birth then when she was 4 months old and my cycles came back so did the spd even worse! :eek: mind you it DID go away... about a month before i moved into the mouldy flat that made me all arthritic :rotfl: oh well at least i could sit and lie down comfortably again even if i did have creaky bones!

i does get better eventually so hang in there and be extra careful this winter, i'd def reccomend the yak trax type things for your shoes/boots... i slipped one day in the mud caused by gales on skye and i was more of a mess than usual for a week after ooh hurts just thinking of it!

lutzi1

kittie wrote: »

snow chains v winter tyres. We used both at different times, when we lived in the lake district. Snow chains have to be laid down and fastened on every time you need them. We used to get winter tyres on for winter and took them off when the weather got better and we used to store them in the garage. You can carry snow chains in a bag in the boot of your car and they are easier to store but winter tyres would be our choice every time.

My husband (who's German) puts winter tyres on his car every winter. For years he had to put up with ribbing, blank looks etc at the tyre place when he went in to have them fitted, but last winter they really were a boon. He was swanning up and down icy snowy hills littered with abandoned vehicles with no trouble whatsoever. :T

midnightraven3

yesterday i was making soup and busying in the kitchen
didnt have the heating on as it was only myself in at the time
2 came home and we noticed the heat from the cooker was as warm as the heating throughout the house:eek:
tried it out as "heating" today as its really cold
works a treat

big gas ring on costs 8p per hour, against 30p for heating
and i have to say i think its even warmer (our rads are tunred down to 2)
temps outside are the same today as yesterday according to my weather station too

lutzi1

Mamzie wrote: »

Thats what I thought kinda about the tyres, that they would wear out quite fast on normal driving. Am I right in thinking they just have extra thick/wider tread???


Have now consulted my German oracle. One difference between winter tyres and ordinary ones is that they made of different rubber to normal tyres, which keeps the tyres softer and more flexible. Standard tyres get stiff in low temperatures and so have less grip on the road surface. Also it's a fallacy to think that winter tyres are only good in snow - they are already helpful at temperatures below 5 degrees centigrade. The different tread only kicks in when it snows. In Germany they are thinking of making winter tyres compulsory in winter, and anybody who has an accident who is not using winter tyres will be held partly responsible. As far as he is concerned they do not wear out any faster than standard tyres.

As with any tyre, you get what you pay for in terms of quality. He also says that a lot of people who drive 4x4s (guilty) have M+S tyres, which are a sort of half way house between winter and summer tyres. If you do it will say it on the tyre.

The only difference with winter tyres is that you cannot drive faster than 120 miles an hour, (but he has just said with a Teutonic chuckle that that will not affect anybody in this country! :rotfl:).


So there you go - more than you (and I) ever wanted to know about tyres! :T

HTH.
x

Mamzie

Whooo hoooo, lots of soups and stews next week here then...

I wanted to let you all know that Aldis have adult thermals and thick thermal work gloves, plus dehumidifer stuff instore from today, all at £2.99

Heres a link to their newsletter,

Mamzie

Confuzzled wrote: »

ohhh i feel for you *BIG HUGS* i had spd quite fiercely during pregnancy with my daughter. mostly went away after her birth then when she was 4 months old and my cycles came back so did the spd even worse! :eek: mind you it DID go away... about a month before i moved into the mouldy flat that made me all arthritic :rotfl: oh well at least i could sit and lie down comfortably again even if i did have creaky bones!

i does get better eventually so hang in there and be extra careful this winter, i'd def reccomend the yak trax type things for your shoes/boots... i slipped one day in the mud caused by gales on skye and i was more of a mess than usual for a week after ooh hurts just thinking of it!

(((((((((()))))))))) thank you huni, unfortunately I get it really badly, and never fully recovered after last time - ended up with misalighed hip and spine damage. This time I 've been wheelchair bound since July, and am even worse - so am thinking we are going to be in for a very difficult winter

Mamzie

lutzi1 wrote: »

Mamzie wrote: »

Thats what I thought kinda about the tyres, that they would wear out quite fast on normal driving. Am I right in thinking they just have extra thick/wider tread???

Have now consulted my German oracle. One difference between winter tyres and ordinary ones is that they made of different rubber to normal tyres, which keeps the tyres softer and more flexible. Standard tyres get stiff in low temperatures and so have less grip on the road surface. Also it's a fallacy to think that winter tyres are only good in snow - they are already helpful at temperatures below 5 degrees centigrade. The different tread only kicks in when it snows. In Germany they are thinking of making winter tyres compulsory in winter, and anybody who has an accident who is not using winter tyres will be held partly responsible. As far as he is concerned they do not wear out any faster than standard tyres.

As with any tyre, you get what you pay for in terms of quality. He also says that a lot of people who drive 4x4s (guilty) have M+S tyres, which are a sort of half way house between winter and summer tyres. If you do it will say it on the tyre.

The only difference with winter tyres is that you cannot drive faster than 120 miles an hour, (but he has just said with a Teutonic chuckle that that will not affect anybody in this country! :rotfl:).


So there you go - more than you (and I) ever wanted to know about tyres! :T

HTH.
x

That is really helpful, thank you for that. WIll show dh it later, after he finishes the washing up

Sylvan

Confuzzled wrote: »

ohhh i feel for you *BIG HUGS* i had spd quite fiercely during pregnancy with my daughter. mostly went away after her birth then when she was 4 months old and my cycles came back so did the spd even worse! :eek: mind you it DID go away... about a month before i moved into the mouldy flat that made me all arthritic :rotfl: oh well at least i could sit and lie down comfortably again even if i did have creaky bones!

i does get better eventually so hang in there and be extra careful this winter, i'd def reccomend the yak trax type things for your shoes/boots... i slipped one day in the mud caused by gales on skye and i was more of a mess than usual for a week after ooh hurts just thinking of it!

It does get better eventually in most cases, but not always. After 7 years my GP offered me an operation to have my pelvis wired together. It might be worth asking, if it lasts that long.

(The worst bit was when I could only shuffle sideways, like a crab. It looked so ridiculous the kids would start laughing... and that would start me off... not a good idea! :rotfl::eek::rotfl::eek:)

I had to use the hot water bottle all day yesterday and today (instead of just the evenings) and we had to put the heating on for a couple of hours yesterday evening, for the pain, but only on the lowest setting. We had a frost last night and this morning there was a little condensation on the bottoms of the upstairs windows. Compared to the amount we were getting a couple of weeks ago it wasn't worth worrying about, but I sent DH downstairs to look at the drawing room windows and he said they were still quite bad.

We've only been using the dehumidifier for just over a week (for about 10 hours a day) and it's still taking out over 2 litres of water a day. The 5 plastic containers of hydrophilic crystals are still filling up with water too.

Can't wait for the house to dry out enough for us to keep the curtains on the north-facing windows closed all day, without mould growing behind them.