Nice People 13: Nice Save

michaels

Don't fluorescent tubes flicker very slightly meaning they don't give great quality light?

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

That was noisy. I must have got some sleep, but literally 5-10 mins here and there through night. Fences still standing thank goodness. Not a good night to live on top of a hill.

Not a hill, but I heard something make an ominous sort crunching cracking sound on the roof very early this morning

LydiaJ

Still howling here but not much rain - although there was some at some point during the night. Very cold, though - apparently the reason DD was "curious about the boiler" yesterday. At least, she says that's the reason why she turned its thermostat down to the "just don't let it freeze" setting (not the house temp thermostat, but the one dealing with the temp of the water in the boiler). Have now identified the problem and rectified it, so the heating is on and the house is warming up nicely, but I have no idea how long I'll have to wait before there will be enough hot water for me to have a shower. It's a good thing none of us have got to go to school today.

tom9980

Rover
Corsa
Rover 25
Fiesta mk6

The fiesta is surprisingly nimble, we were going to change it in August but I have changed my mind.

The wind was awful last night kept waking me up, being on top of a hill is good given the river here floods badly but not liking how windy it gets.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Still howling here but not much rain - although there was some at some point during the night. Very cold, though - apparently the reason DD was "curious about the boiler" yesterday. At least, she says that's the reason why she turned its thermostat down to the "just don't let it freeze" setting (not the house temp thermostat, but the one dealing with the temp of the water in the boiler). Have now identified the problem and rectified it, so the heating is on and the house is warming up nicely, but I have no idea how long I'll have to wait before there will be enough hot water for me to have a shower. It's a good thing none of us have got to go to school today.

The airsource thing is amazing. We get enough hot water to clean ourselves as quickly as an immersion, miraculous. Because the house is now 'core warm' I can have the heating off for a few days and be very cold ( like yesterday when the dogs were shivering because all the doors of the house were open for the workmen) and then close everything up and within an hour everything was toasty warm. Unlike the two or three days it took to initially heat the house 'properly'.

lostinrates

Opinions for the future.

We have two fireplaces back to back in the old part of the house.

One has a wood burner in I don't love but is good quality, we could use elsewhere, in one of the other buildings.

We had hoped to return that fireplace to an open fire but we now understand we'll never get it through building regs as the woodburner has been there.

The other fireplace is closed off, and it might be possible to have that as an open fire but the fireplace people tell me it would be easier and cheaper to have a woodburner there.

Something that's been thrown in to the mix is the idea of having one burner serve both rooms. These are invariably modern wood burners, glass sided but I could kind of pretend these were open fires if the surrounds were right. ( here is a modern setting example )


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The down side is, the loss of privacy and complete ruin separation through the fireplace. What are nice people's opinions on this please?

PasturesNew

I don't think I like a "through fireplace" at all. Might look nice in some magazines, in some houses, but generally I bet it's just an inefficient nuisance. If the purpose were to open up the space and that's the only way, then I'd go with it. If it were about fires/heating then I think I'd prefer to keep the two rooms separate.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't think I like a "through fireplace" at all. Might look nice in some magazines, in some houses, but generally I bet it's just an inefficient nuisance. If the purpose were to open up the space and that's the only way, then I'd go with it. If it were about fires/heating then I think I'd prefer to keep the two rooms separate.

I agree. Either the two rooms are separate or they are not. I would be concerned that opening up the fireplace means the wood burner has to heat both rooms. Does noise carry through an opening like that?

We had hoped to return that fireplace to an open fire but we now understand we'll never get it through building regs as the woodburner has been there.

Would the building regs inspector ever need to know that a wood burner had been there?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't think I like a "through fireplace" at all. Might look nice in some magazines, in some houses, but generally I bet it's just an inefficient nuisance. If the purpose were to open up the space and that's the only way, then I'd go with it. If it were about fires/heating then I think I'd prefer to keep the two rooms separate.

Thank you

The purpose is partly heating and partly aesthetic. I just really would have preferred an open fire and the practicality of that for the way I am. The aesthetic is certainly an consideration ( it dictated the study woodburner choice between two woodburners) And the open view of the flames appeals.


It would be cheaper to have one over two.

But the loss of separation does grate.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Would the building regs inspector ever need to know that a wood burner had been there?

Sadly its well documented.