Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

fuel=jellybabies GQ I'm surprised at you not knowing that!

I knew they were flammable, but then all the finest things in life are; vodka, whiskey, gelatin-based confectionary.

Cooking a vat of chili to sustain me through the harsh suvvern wevver. And looking boggle-eyed at pix of floods on newspaper websites.

I've been to Hawick, it's the one pronounced Hoik, innit?

pineapple

GreyQueen wrote: »

Ermm, I may be a bit thick but I'm baffled by you running out of fuel - is this credit for a prepayment meter or something a bit more complicated?

Greyqueen have you heard of solid fuel? (as in logs and coal and variations thereof) :rotfl:
The only heating in this cottage are two knackered storage heaters and a knackered solid fuel stove. The replacement for the latter has been stood alongside for weeks waiting for a Hetas person to fit it. The old stove is erratic and I'm still at the point of trying different varieties of solid fuel in small amounts. Hence no big deliveries in store.
Tomnght I just have heat from the awful storage heaters. I guess I should be thankful for that - the power is off all over the area.
I could connect to the gas supply in the village - but have just been quoted between £16,000 - £32,000 for connection :eek:

Karmacat

A pub must be quite a *good* place to be stranded in lots of ways, but I bet the people stuck there are worried about what's going on at home, even if they've still got mobile signal ... still, when its really this bad, you have to make the best of it, and minimise it to yourself to get through ... I hope there are no more casualties.

greenbee

Pineapple - have you looked into airsource heat? I replaced the oil boiler here because it was condemned not long after I moved in here and it was winter, but plenty of my neighbours seem to be going for solar thermal/air source combinations and adding PV to provide the electricity for the airsource... Might be worth investigating.

calicocat

Oh my god............

No alcohol...?!!.... :rotfl: :eek:

Very bad prepping.

Note to self to get some emergency alcohol in. I did actually do it around October for the winter/xmas etc.

It has disappeared....:o. .

pineapple

greenbee wrote: »

Pineapple - have you looked into airsource heat? I replaced the oil boiler here because it was condemned not long after I moved in here and it was winter, but plenty of my neighbours seem to be going for solar thermal/air source combinations and adding PV to provide the electricity for the airsource... Might be worth investigating.

Yes looking. But I believe it would cost around £8,000-£10,000 to install then I would need to be here for several years to receive enough Renewable Heat Incentive to justify the outlay. Similar applies to Solar - for which some funding is being pulled anyway

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

Greyqueen have you heard of solid fuel? (as in logs and coal and variations thereof) :rotfl:
The only heating in this cottage are two knackered storage heaters and a knackered solid fuel stove. The replacement for the latter has been stood alongside for weeks waiting for a Hetas person to fit it. The old stove is erratic and I'm still at the point of trying different varieties of solid fuel in small amounts. Hence no big deliveries in store.
Tomnght I just have heat from the awful storage heaters. I guess I should be thankful for that - the power is off all over the area.
I could connect to the gas supply in the village - but have just been quoted between £16,000 - £32,000 for connection :eek:

Aah, and there was me thinking it couldn't be logs/ coal because you'd not likely be nipping out for that in your car.

calicocat, you have to watch it with alcohol. It's OK until you loosen the top a smidge, then it evaporates so fast you'd think some beggar had been drinking the stuff!

greenbee

GreyQueen wrote: »

calicocat, you have to watch it with alcohol. It's OK until you loosen the top a smidge, then it evaporates so fast you'd think some beggar had been drinking the stuff!

Chocolate has similar problems with shelf-stability once opened...

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

Chocolate has similar problems with shelf-stability once opened...

I have noticed this myself. As I'm dedicated to not wasting stuff, I have to hurry to eat it all [STRIKE]before some other beggar gets it[/STRIKE] errrr I meant, before it goes off.:o

And 'biscuit tins' - what's all that about, then? These ephemeral items don't need to be containerised, they just disappear without any effort.

jk0

pineapple wrote: »

Tomnght I just have heat from the awful storage heaters.

Don't get rid of them though. I think there's a lot to be said for awful storage heaters. (Most of my rentals have them as they only go wrong one at a time, and I am able to repair them myself.)

The main thing of course is that they continue working for a day or so when the power's off. Most other sorts of heating don't.