Preparing for Winter V

Cafekate

Hi I've got a Dribuddi but just do an internet search as there are similar by other companies . Argos sell them.it's brilliant for sports kit also especially football shirts. They do throw out a fair bit of heat so I tend to use it during the day after heating has clicked out. Think they are more economical than tumble drier.Did buy a heated airer from Lakeland and was so unimpressed I resold it.

Si_Clist

Caterina wrote: »

Trying to persuade DH to make a zig zag clothes horse from wood scraps, so I can put clothes in front of the wood stove to finish off drying ...

How about a http://www.pulleymaid.com/ type thing instead? We'd be lost without ours.

Caterina

Si_Clist wrote: »

How about a http://www.pulleymaid.com/ type thing instead? We'd be lost without ours.

We have had the mechanism and pulleys stored in a bag somewhere in the mess of DH's DIY storage cupboard under the stairs, for at least 15 years! Every year I ask him to set it up, all we need to do is buy the dowels and fit the bits to the wall.

It will be written on my gravestone: "still waiting for that pulleymaid to be set up"!

elona

Caterina

When I wanted something done that I had already mentioned several times I would startle DH with a big smile and say that as he worked so hard etc and had so much to do already I did not want to bother him and was thinking about "getting a man in" to do it.

Strangely enough the job would be done in the next few days

Caterina

Elona, I have done something similar a few years ago. I wanted a wooden coat rack for the corridor, literally just a piece of wood with hooks. It never came until I said I was enrolling in a carpentry class to make a proper coat and hat rack and was making plans to buy timber etc...

Next day, he presented me with the coat rack and we still have it in the corridor doing its job. Result! :-)

Now he is busy making boxes for the allotment so I won't divert his attention because he is getting on with it and we need them. But I have a few projects that I want to push his way and the pulley is one. Also the zig zag wooden clothes horse and finally if he has a few decent offcuts I want a tofu/cheese press, but I think that's such a small project that I might tackle it myself.

I am really wobbly on a ladder otherwise I would have attempted the pulley myself too!

pollys

I have the Lakeland airier and love it for stuff that can't go in the TD.
I now have a winter coat and it's lovely. I really needed a new one last year but put it off. Im so pleased that I did as I've lost the extra weight I've gained over the last year or two and gone down a dress size or two depending on the style/fit.
DS needs a pair of wellingtons, he's had a growth spurt, he's now the same size as his older brothers so no spare wellies waiting for him to grow into.
We are forecast a much colder weekend so I will be putting my coat to the test.

Happy prepping

Polly

thriftwizard

I have a Lakeland drier & swear by it when it's too cold & damp to dry stuff outside. Also a Sheila Maid pulley drier in the utility room. Once we're back down to 4 full-time inhabitants (and one part-time) that may suffice, but we did struggle when there were 7 of us.

Ordered a roll of bubblewrap today, to wrap our conservatory in! That sounds ridiculous but believe me, it makes a difference. It's a big space, the only one we have, running right down one side of the house, and it has before now got so cold out there that we lost a few houseplants, despite being double-glazed with 3 layers of polycarbonate roof. The cockatiels live out there, too, and I don't want to put them at risk. The bubblewrap, hung behind a layer of voile curtain, makes a LOT of difference, although it's much harder to see out.

mardatha

I have to bubblewrap the bathroom window, it's at the back of the house and faces north, gets really baltic in there even with the window tight shut.

shanks77

juliettet wrote: »

I use a combination of a clothes airier and my spiral staircase. It is a warm house and they dry quickly. If it is a nice day they go out no matter how short a while. I am an October baby and favourite months are May & June?. I am reading through the thread and realise if the power goes off I am stuffed. Has anyone any experience with the small calor gas heaters?

That is my only source of heat and I am happy with it. For me the trick to heating a cold room is too put it on its highest setting for 10/15 mins then turn down heat to keep temp constant. Downside it only heats 1 room.
I dry my clothes in an unheard spare room, have the window open a crack all year and have never been bothered with damp however clithes take forever and a day to dry so no use if you need something quickly

[Deleted User]

good tip about getting less water vapour from a bath

http://www.rentokil.co.uk/assets/content/files/condensation-information-leaflet.pdf