Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

The one you linked to on Ebay was lovely...why not get that one?


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I'd look grotesque. Like a cotton wool ball tree. .

If I were slim I would and then I'd pretend to be ( just bathed ) a rabbits backside all happy and skippy and jolly hopping about my day.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

A heating engineer once told me that 20 degrees in winter would feel colder than 20 degrees in Summer, don't know why.

The temperature you need to set your thermostat may depend on where it is sited. I know in this house the thermostat must be in a warm spot because it needs to be high to keep the rest of the house warm.



I thought every house would have the same sort of electricity supply, until my parents found out once that their garage had 3 phase electric in it.

Is it not that where your thermostat is warm your heating will click off?

Ours is wireless. Not that it does anything of course. But I liked the idea of the control this would give me.

Pfft, when will I learn I have no control :rotfl:

You parents garage has more power supply than our farm. .

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

A heating engineer once told me that 20 degrees in winter would feel colder than 20 degrees in Summer, don't know why.

Cold bridging. There's never an even 20 degrees in a house in winter because of cold spots around windows, draughts and cold bridging through the fabric of some of the building materials.

You can engineer cold bridging out of houses these days. I am longing, longing, longing to do it and create a comfortable home in winter that costs virtually nothing to heat. It's going to happen, just a matter of when.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you not you but really Pete the heating chap logged on as you?

Oh noes... busted!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

You parents garage has more power supply than our farm. .

My comment was based on your place being old/remote - and so the original electrical supply was probably put in to run 3 lightbulbs and a wireless.... and since then the spare capacity's been used up.... and now you want to run a heating system so big it needed its own room.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

My comment was based on your place being old/remote - and so the original electrical supply was probably put in to run 3 lightbulbs and a wireless.... and since then the spare capacity's been used up.... and now you want to run a heating system so big it needed its own room.

Hmm, remember they used to milk cows here, plus run an irrigation system, plus Provide power to all the barns in a far more intensive way than we do.

I think we might have a workable solution........which is why we have the architect for his brain, and me for purring down the phone at the electricity people. Oh, and poor DH, slogging his guts out to pay for it!

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

A heating engineer once told me that 20 degrees in winter would feel colder than 20 degrees in Summer, don't know why.

I'm guessing it might be because in winter the air is damp, which increases its specific heat capacity and makes it take more heat out of you.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'm guessing it might be because in winter the air is damp, which increases its specific heat capacity and makes it take more heat out of you.

Which is why dehumidifiers can be good to use.

Spirit_2

bugslet wrote: »

Well done to mini Spirit:T

Good luck with the tests Gen.

Depressing mode on, Mr Bugs is down to 6 stone 9 from 8 stone 3 at the start of Oct, and unless something radical happens, he's going to fade quietly away. He is having sub cut fluids, so he won't die of dehydration.

I'm as comfortable with that as you can be and I trust the staff at the nursing home to make sure that he's as comfortable as he can be.

Dear bugs,
I am so sorry for you and for Mr bugs and wish him and you peace. Spirit x

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

22 degrees?! Glad I don't pay your heating bill.

I must be more like my mother than I think I am. Although her thermostat is at 14 degrees (it's warmer in the kitchen, because of the Aga). We don't have ours on at all at night or during the day, it's on from 7am until 9am, and 5pm until 11pm. At 18 degrees.

The heat from our cooker goes up the stairs and convinces the thermostat which is on the landing that we are basking in 22 degrees. We are not if we are in the sittig room without a fire alight so we manually override the setting and turn it up to 25+.

Heating is on from 6am to 8 am and then 5pm until we switch it off.

We are definitely not of the put an extra jumper on mold.