Preparing for Winter V

pattypan4

Good tip cuddly, will do and will check keyholes. Not really winter yet, I want to be ready for january when realwinter starts


My dd also got flooded in mrslurcher, they moved last spring. The house is safe surrounded by acres and up on a hill. She is basic old school with preps, good to be prepared

mardatha

Scottish ski centres had a good night, deep snow in most of them now.

Eenymeeny

Draught excluders: I've used beach towels, rolled up and held with hair elastics before. They are easily washed if they get a bit damp at an outside door. Masking tape also makes a good emergency lock cover. We put it on the outside back door which only gets locked when we are down the garden in the Summer. (It's easily removed and doesn't leave marks.)

pattypan4

Thanks for temporary draught excluder tips

I took careful note of my local forcast last night, I have 2 complete brushed cotton bedding sets to wash and dry, new sets. I stuffed them into my 16kg wm and set them to be done for 7am and it is pouring down and set for the day, grhhh honest, it did say dry with a bit of sun
Luckily I ordered a new airer as my old one is part broken and it is being delivered this morning. I could use the tumbler but I have the dehumidifier on anyway and it is big enough to catch whole house. I spun all that washing, spinner in garage and it is all draped over my old airer for now. I do believe that these sheets would bobble using the td, stands to reason as they were cheap northern nights with short staples


So this new airer sounds promising, only 7cm deep when collapsed, so will store behind a door and I am keeping the old one, its still proving its worth

No end to this rain, floods all over and all the lanes around my old village. Pity we cannot share it with my sisters in aus who are sweltering and have a drought

boultdj

Another joy of winter, mice looking for some where warm, emergency dash to the local hard ware shop for trap's as the cat has gone on strike, just hope it's on it's own and not bought the family with it.

mardatha

Mice always bring the whole family :eek: We get field mice in winter, they don't bother me as stay in the kitchen and loo - think they use the spaces round the pipes to get in. Cat far too posh and snooty to even bother with them. Either that or she's scared
Very very wet up here, poor sheep look fed up.

boultdj

Mine use to be a good mouse hunter, but she's 18 now and seem's be thinking that's a kittens job, oh joy if it's the whole family, it's OH's bedroom their in.

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We've evidence of mice in the garden shed but have caught nothing in the traps so far. The rain here is relentless and we're flooded in still, luckily on the roads on the edges of the village but we're forecast two more entire days of rain and the ground is literally waterlogged, it's going to flood many more bits of road before it's over I think. We're both getting cabin fever as it's just too wet to go walking!

f0xh0les

Living_proof wrote: »

The front door keyhole for a mortice lock has no internal cover and so when the wind is in the wrong quarter it howls through the small hole. I managed to find an escutcheon and a friend fitted it and it has made all the difference.

A fridge magnet works too. :T Or any other type of magnetic thing. Just in case anyone else is suffering with a drafty keyhole.

Novice_investor101

Not been on this thread for a while...
It's currently 11c outside, mildest winter I can ever remember. Wet & windy, but it certainly ain't cold.