THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

Yep, you're so right pineapple.

moneyistooshorttomention

pineapple wrote: »

Well yes and no. In my experience, ('oop north' at least) many people in rural areas have solid fuel stoves. I even cook on mine some nights. I was practically laughed off a forum recently when I posted about Christmas tips for people like coal delivery men. It was like I was harking back to some quaint old custom like sending kids up chimneys. But I would say nearly everyone in my village has a fire or a stove. My neighbour has two! We will have the last laugh.... :rotfl:

Valid point. Errrm.....now racking brains to see if I can think of anyone with one...it may take me a while...

One of the first things I did to the house was to rip out the oil-fired Rayburn and all traces of anything to do with it. So my house is now totally electric and mains gas only - now that I've replicated the arrangement I had before I moved.

Hmmm.....:cool:

EDIT; Ah-ha - I've thought of someone. Right - that would be all of us round to an organic smallholding near here then (good job they've got a big house LOL) or a New Age centre.

Actually - that's got me wondering now in a different direction. I'm planning my new kitchen at the moment and tossing up as to whether to have a gas or electric hob. I've only ever used electric personally. Now - if I were to have a gas hob - am I correct in thinking that would keep working absolutely cast-iron guaranteed? I don't think it's literally possible to switch off gas supplies to users (ie for safety reasons or something?). Am I remembering that correctly? Is a gas hob something that I'm guaranteed to be able to use without worry (or excessive cost) for the rest of my life regardless of what Society gets up to?

greenbee

I hope you got a decent price for the Rayburn - there's a very healthy second hand market!

If you have a chimney left, you might want to consider a stove or open fire. I'm always reluctant to be reliant on a single fuel source (and my oil-fired central heating won't run without electricity, much as GCH won't).

Having said that, if you had gas, a oil-fired stove seems odd - a gas-fired one would have been more economical but still given you the stored heat. I prefer to have a hot water cylinder to a combi boilers for exactly that reason. The tank stays hot and provides residual heat for a while.

pineapple

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Is a gas hob something that I'm guaranteed to be able to use without worry (or excessive cost) for the rest of my life regardless of what Society gets up to?

You don't have to worry about power cuts. The worse that might happen - if you have some fancy electric ignition - is you would have to light it with a match. Unless the grid goes down totally of course. In which case we are all stuffed :rotfl:

pineapple

greenbee wrote: »

If you have a chimney left, you might want to consider a stove or open fire.

No worries. You can often run a flue up the outside.
http://www.gratefireplace.co.uk/blog/can-i-flue-my-stove-up-an-outside-wall/

westcoastscot

So happy to have my multi-fuel stove, I can be totally self reliant if need be in that I can pick up wood on my daily walk to fuel it :-)
I think in rural areas it can actually be easier, in that we're already used to not relying on ambient light in the evenings, don't have access to mains gas and electricity is not reliable - we're already half way there iyswim :-)

moneyistooshorttomention

Much googling later - and I can't find any images of Scandinavian style kitchens with gas hobs. Maybe that's just me - I've not come across them.

Veers more towards electric hobs then....as mine is going to be Scandinavian in style (to match what I've done with the rest of the inside of my house......).

thriftwizard

Gas can "go down" if there's no 'leccy at all to pump it through the pipes. Not a desperately likely scenario, for safety reasons, but it's not impossible. MTSTM, you need a back-up of some sort.

jk0

This is a bit of a worry, isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS05_t8CyGY

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Just picked her up from the Cattery, where she has spent the last 6 days, while I've been away on holiday.

She's now giving me the silent/ignoring treatment.