Preparing for winter IV

Fruball

Anybody heard from KMiller in USA?

Just wondering how she coped during the storm and if she is ok?

2tonsils

I think I have convinced my friend who forecasts weather to send me his next article about the upcoming weather in the UK and the rest of Europe ( see , I was thinking of you all, as well as me...). He has now got major sponsorship as he got the Hurricane and the current winter storm exactly right and some of the tv weather stations had to apologise to him. I will post it here, it might be a few days as his thoughts are still with the USA as apparently there is another winter storm going to hit the west coast of America soon.

Despite the cold weather we got for one day this week an snow warnings on our news we got a lovely day today, with wall to wall sunshine. It is forecast to get very cold for here tonight (4 degrees) but sunny for the weekend. I can live with that. We can see the snow on the mountains on the mainland.

The last two nights we have lit a small olive log fire in the living room and the house has stayed lovely and warm and cosy. I love looking at the fire burning, it reminds me of my childhood.

Still haven't put the electric blanket on the bed as it feels warm enough without it at the moment. We do have a thin duvet under the bottom sheet though, its a bit too cosy and I am reluctant to leave it in the mornings.

rising_from_the_ashes

Fruball wrote: »

Anybody heard from KMiller in USA?

Just wondering how she coped during the storm and if she is ok?

Funnily enough I was thinking of Kathy the other day as the storm certainly passed over the area where she is ..... haven't seen her posting for ages, has anyone else?

MoonJelly

I got some thermal underwear for my boy. I need to make a trip to the charity shops (I'm pretty sure I won't run into any of the "yummy mummies" from school -they wouldn't be caught dead at a charity shop) to buy myself some fleece jumpers for the school run. I am tired of wearing my best wooly jumpers because:

1- No-one sees what I'm wearing under my coat.
2- I'm tired of getting my wool jumper sweaty -they are not machine washable.

mama67

craigywv wrote: »

I tend to try and get washing on the clothes line for as long as weather permits then bring it in ,put it over clothes horse and let it dry that way ,if things are too heavy eg jogging bottoms especially the pockets i will put them over radiater JUST after i turn heat off so its not being wasted being covered in clothes this is usually dry by morning then as i find our oil ch stays warm a lot longer than in our old house where we had gas ch and it went cold almost immediatley hope this helps.

I do this as well and am also very surprised that a radiator can still be quite hot up to an hour after the oil ch has gone off. DH often asks if the heating is still on when its been off a good 30 minutes or so.

MarilynMonroe_2

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Funnily enough I was thinking of Kathy the other day as the storm certainly passed over the area where she is ..... haven't seen her posting for ages, has anyone else?

She might be out of power still. Fingers crossed she's fine.

afeitar

12months wrote: »

Afeitar, I love my dehumidifier, it's one of the best things I've bought for this house and certainly keeps the moisture at bay. Just a thought, but have you considered looking in C*met? Since they have a sale on just now you might be able to pick one up for a reasonable price.

I did look today but the only one left was £200!

Becky_2

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

If you leave your heating on at a low temp and turn up a couple of times / day when you need it warmer, it takes a lot less time for the house to get up to where you want it than if the house had been really cold (eg it might only take 1/2 an hour of the heating being on for it to warm up, compared to 3 hours if it hadn't been on at all). Hope that makes sense?

It does actually work - I left my thermostat on at 15 deg last winter (heating turned up to 20 deg in the evenings) and spent a lot less than I had done in previous years.QUOTE]

Thanks Rising from the ashes for your response to my question earlier this week. I have been at home on my own this week so tried out what you suggested above and I must say that the house feels so much warmer compared to having the heating on only twice per day and the house definetely warms up much quicker. Even when it has only been 13-14 degrees inside it hasn't felt that cold like it would normally do. OH will be so pleased to hear that I have finally been persuaded to keep the heating on all day on a low setting.

rising_from_the_ashes

Becky_2 wrote: »

Thanks Rising from the ashes for your response to my question earlier this week. I have been at home on my own this week so tried out what you suggested above and I must say that the house feels so much warmer compared to having the heating on only twice per day and the house definetely warms up much quicker. Even when it has only been 13-14 degrees inside it hasn't felt that cold like it would normally do. OH will be so pleased to hear that I have finally been persuaded to keep the heating on all day on a low setting.

It took me ages before I'd give it a try as I really didn't think it would work ..... but it does :T I think it's the fact that the house doesn't ever get really, really cold that makes the difference - and if you come in and it's cool (but not freezing as it often was before), it's copeable with IYKWIM without resorting to turning everything on full blast for hours & hours (as you've got so bloomin' cold you can't thaw out!).

I'm housebound atm (recent hospital stay) and have been really worried about needing the heating on during the day / extra costs (usually at work) - I've put the thermostat up another degree to 16 deg and I've not needed to turn it up at all during the day and have been plenty warm enough :T - sure that's down to the house being at a constant temp and not having huge fluctuations in it being roasting / cold etc.

mineallmine

If anyone needs any supplies from Homebase they're doing 15% off this weekend (no minimum spend that I can see).

May have found a set of linings from Dunelm Mill to help sort some curtains which are too thin.