Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

tom9980

Had all the valves changed to thermostatic yesterday because we have had some failing recently due to age but it didnt go that well so no heating overnight and leaks this morning when system refilled. All fine now and normal service resumed; 8am-8pm weekends and 5.30-8 on week days the thermostat is set to 17C (situated in hallway which is the coldest part of the house) i imagine the rooms are 20-22C depending on doors being open or shut.

Oh and hi :wave:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

michaels wrote: »

pulled your punches a bit

Damned sober posting....

I may cure that later.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Bank account appears to be a wee bit lighter than it was when I looked this morning so clearly they've had fun...

And on that note, not content with putting quite the dent in the bank account shopping with my mother, Mrs McT is now deep in discussion with her sister about buying a hobby business together.

*sigh*

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I doubt I've ever been in a house that's 24°!!

Maybe it's time for an NP question: How warm/hot is your house - or, the room you're in at the moment (on the basis that some of us only heat the main/one room we're in and not the whole house ever).

Thermostat is for 22.5C during the day when I'm in, and the heating goes off when I go out (with a Tado system). It's set to 15C at night, but the house is well insulated, so it never drops that low unless we go away and the Tado switches the heating off for days. (It wouldn't let the house freeze, though. Also, when I am out, how low it lets the house gets depends on how far away from home I am, and therefore how much notice it might get that I am heading homewards and it needs to start heating the place up again.)

Perception of temperature isn't at all the same as actual temperature, though. I have the wireless thermostat in my bedroom, and if I feel chilly I stick it on the windowsill for a bit, so it thinks the room is colder and warms it up. If I'm downstairs, I like to sit on the floor in front of the gas fire - a habit picked up when I was a kid in a house with no insulation and no central heating.

kabayiri wrote: »

I'm not

I really don't mind. I do think that men can be more task focussed, and DW reminds me that being people focussed isn't such a bad thing.

I'd have no objections if women dominated parliament, but I hope they don't have to feel they have to emulate men to achieve this. I've had my fill of arrogant traditional male MPs.

I agree ... "can be" is the operative word, and it's good for most environments to have a mix of task focussed and people focussed types around the place.

At school recently, I had to sit in on a talk to sixth formers about careers in business. The female speaker said she'd never experienced any sexism, but one of the male teachers said that his wife has experienced a lot of it, albeit in a different sector of business. I think it's great when it's the people who who already have the advantages are the ones trying to change things for the people who don't, so I like the way my friend was so supportive of his wife (especially since he comes originally from a country with a traditionally patriarchal society), and I think it's women who should object to the "male idiot, competent female" stereotype that keeps cropping up in adverts, for example.

But this is getting too serious. I'll go back to talking about trivialities...

DD is cooking an apple crumble tonight. She's supposed to be doing one in food tech this week, and wanted to try it out beforehand to make sure the quantities were right for the dish. Neither of my kids likes apple crumble. This means lots of it for me.

Generali

20C indoors, 20C outdoors.

I only do anything about the temperature when it's above 30C or below 15C. Our current house has a good front and back porch so it keeps the heat out pretty nicely on hot days. We only really need to cool the place when the sun properly hits the side wall.

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

24° sounded like it'd be 80-90 or something, even higher maybe.

The easy to remember one - 28C is 82F. Gives you a point of reference.
Our house is about 18.5/19 degrees. Can't stand being too hot. To keep my feet and ankles warm I wear thinsulate slipper socks.

LydiaJ

hjd wrote: »

The easy to remember one - 28C is 82F. Gives you a point of reference.

Also, -40 is the same for both. Not that that's very relevant in this country, natch.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

20C indoors, 20C outdoors.

I only do anything about the temperature when it's above 30C or below 15C. Our current house has a good front and back porch so it keeps the heat out pretty nicely on hot days. We only really need to cool the place when the sun properly hits the side wall.

Funnily enough in all my years of tropical climate living the AC thermostat was set religiously to 18C.

Something about a nice cool house when it's 45C outside that is incredibly refreshing.

Now that it's baltic outside all year round, we run a higher temperature inside, strange....

Generali

hjd wrote: »

82F = 28C

That's quite cool, I didn't know that one. I just work it out in my head. C x 9/5 + 32 = F or (F - 32) x 5/9 = C.

The only ones I remember are -40C = -40F (or is it the other way round?), 0C = 32F and 100C = 200 odd F.

I do know why 0F is 0F. Anyone else know...?

In other news. Stuart Broad, cripes. The Aussies hate him :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Re the sexism stuff, I noticed something interesting (to me). Increasingly companies are recognising the value of having a gender diverse board. However if you dig a little deeper, women on boards are almost always in non-executive, non-chairman roles.

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Funnily enough in all my years of tropical climate living the AC thermostat was set religiously to 18C.

Something about a nice cool house when it's 45C outside that is incredibly refreshing.

Now that it's baltic outside all year round, we run a higher temperature inside, strange....

It's lovely to get off the pushbike on a hot day and get into a really cool house.