Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

JonnyBravo

sss555s wrote: »

Just caught up and that made me laugh

Prior to fitting the foil to the radiators on external walls it was hard to make the house feel warm. Since fitting I have had to turn down the boiler stat and rad stats as some rooms began feeling too hot!!

Yay!!!!

:rotfl:

lostinrates

TBH, the whole thing seems unrealistic. And sort of distant....though I'd like to crack on with it. (this was in ref to my stable floor)


I even have thought if we put walls in first we could do floors a stable at a time as we need them...but don't know how feasible that would be either.


well.....the winter patch up of the falling down kitchen is in place and looks fantastic. If a temp repair can look so good I feel renewed enthusiasm for the project. I'm also watching something on ebay, which would be super.


I'm wanting to crack on with something, and not sure which of the thousands of options of things to do ....



Johnny, I'm glad you mentioned it : I find it interesting, but I alwso find the argument about the cheapest way to heat a home interesting to...and I generally think the answer is ''it depends''. Or that's what it seems to me!

sss555s

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Yay!!!!

:rotfl:

So we are all right :rotfl:

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm wanting to crack on with something, and not sure which of the thousands of options of things to do ....

You should take 10 minutes to write a list, prioritise then do them in order :beer:

GDB2222

Nice people, can I ask your advice? We have been invited to a carol concert on the Isle of Wight in mid-December, and we thought we'd make a long weekend of it. Anybody got any suggestions for somewhere really nice to stay please? It'll only be two nights, so price is not too important (Edit: within reason!). It needs to be warm, though.

I'd prefer the IOW itself, because it save a last-minute dash for the ferry, but I guess somewhere on the mainland itself might be feasible, eg the New Forest.

Thanks for any help.

silvercar

Really an amazing difference!

Prior to fitting the foil to the radiators on external walls it was hard to make the house feel warm. Since fitting I have had to turn down the boiler stat and rad stats as some rooms began feeling too hot!!

Big difference for low cost and very little effort

If something so easy and so cheap made so much difference, everyone would do it.

But they don't because its a vast exaggeration, just like saying 27% of the heat in a house goes out of the letterbox.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

If something so easy and so cheap made so much difference, everyone would do .

I'm not so sure that's true.

Afterall, if it were people wouldn't drive cars bigger than they need or run the heating on a degree higher than they really need it. Or a dozen other more pertinant examples that I can't think of right now.

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

You should take 10 minutes to write a list, prioritise then do them in order :beer:

I have a list, but lots of the things that are next are bigger jobs than for me alone...(e.g. moving boxes of books upstairs is not a lir job, but its probably the next one on the list!). some of the lir jobs are boring and slow.....the hot air gun calls.....I've started a bit of the stone window in the bathroom, but its MINDNUMBINGLY slow.

JonnyBravo

lostinrates wrote: »

.....the hot air gun calls.....I've started a bit of the stone window in the bathroom, but its MINDNUMBINGLY slow.

Getting paint off stone with a hot air gun is EXTREMELY slow. Goes back to the bit about heat capacity and conductivity.
You may be better trying Nitro-mors or the like.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Getting paint off stone with a hot air gun is EXTREMELY slow. Goes back to the bit about heat capacity.
You may be better trying Nitro-mors or the like.

the chemical doesn't touch it...just makes little bits like skin shredding, I've really, really tried it, and hard! Hmm....might however be an argument to put it off until summer.


there are some other things to do, like......colour scheme finanlisation...but a bit.....prissy for my current mood.

ATM I'm ebay shopping. Blame Hamish...I'm planning on spending next months grocery budget on something near its auction end....unless it goes for over that. I'm sure it will, its too pretty to be bought for what the price is now:o

JonnyBravo

lostinrates wrote: »

the chemical doesn't touch it...just makes little bits like skin shredding, I've really, really tried it, and hard! Hmm....might however be an argument to put it off until summer.

That's normal. You then scrape it off and repeat. The number of coats is dependent on the layers of paint I'm afraid.