EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

beanielou

WE run a humidifier 24/7 in the foodbank.
It tells you the humidity.
Expensive but worth it.

savingholmes

greenbee said:

savingholmes said:

greenbee said:

 (I'm on a reclaimed watercress bed). 

Tell us more...

Someone filled in the watercress beds and built houses on them. On floating rafts on piles... but it does mean we're just about level with the water table and pretty soggy!

Forgive my fascination - was this recent history or long ago? You'd think they'd learn...

greenbee

savingholmes said:

greenbee said:

savingholmes said:

greenbee said:

 (I'm on a reclaimed watercress bed). 

Tell us more...

Someone filled in the watercress beds and built houses on them. On floating rafts on piles... but it does mean we're just about level with the water table and pretty soggy!

Forgive my fascination - was this recent history or long ago? You'd think they'd learn...

1980s... 

rtandon27

A definite vote for a dehumidifier - our last place, a converted hop kiln, was incredibly damp & we ran the dehumidifier 24/7, emptying it every 8 hours.  It made the old place liveable for 6 years!  In our new place we've run it for a few hours each of the past two weekends in the kitchen/bathroom extension on the back of the house.  Only took out about 1/2 tank (4L) of moisture but definitely warmed the otherwise chilly area up by a few degrees.  Ours is energy efficient and we find it fairly inexpensive to run.  An added bonus, is a cloths drying setting which we often use for a few hours in a small room with jeans or duvets or other hard to dry items.

savingholmes

You are making me glad I live in a modern house!!

RelievedSheff

savingholmes said:

You are making me glad I live in a modern house!!

Me too. 😀

EssexHebridean

Scottiedog_3 said:

- humidity levels hit 75% at one stage over the weekend indoors and that's a problem. It does do such a good job though - it was down at 52% this morning so it's worth it's (relatively low if on overnight) cost. MrEH will probably stick it in the bedroom for a few hours in the mornings tomorrow and Thursday as well.it will be back in the kitchen tonight as the WM will be

Could I ask you, please, how you measure your humidity levels and where you sourced the doo-dah? My  bedroom carpet is actually wet to walk over barefoot but I would like a more formal  measurement than "My feet are all wet" before I file a formal complaint. Thanks.

I've got a little digital thermometer which also gives humidity levels - a little like this: https://!!!!!!.com/e6pyrhkw (Which will hopefully work OK!) I'm sure it's not absolutely reliable but it does give a good idea. Looks like they are readily available from the likes of Am@z0n - ours was given to us for nothing!   Your wet carpet situation sounds vile - I'd be tempted to file the complaint even before getting the more detailed info - then you can always use that info to back things up with later! 

*Waves at all the visitors* 

Our dehumidifier is a Screwfix one which we've had for a few years now - we did have one previously that I think was from Homebase but that had to be replaced after it got knocked over....we had no idea how much of the water from the tank might have got into the internal workings, and decided we also had no wish to risk finding out that the answer was "too much!" Cheery yours sounds a lot posher!  

Redo - Yes it certainly does help with temperature doesn't it, AND means that drying washing indoors in winter is FAR quicker as well as RT identifies!  And Greenbee I've always thought your house sounds lovely - even more so now in spite of the soggy! 

It's certainly not any sort of hardship running it - and it's not even massively high cost in the normal scheme of things, although a bit more so at the moment needless to say! As for modern houses - it's a good thing we're all different as you couldn't pay me enough to live in a new-build!  Very much an "each to their own" thing but it's the reason we've gone away from the idea of going the "build from scratch" in the Hebrides too. 

IntoTheForest

Hello, coulld I please join you all?

We are hoping to move back near my home city of Inverness in the next 5ish years. I am self employed and I am struggling with motivation since covid. All the hours of daytime tv and procrastination are having a serious impact on our future plans. Some accountability would do me the world of good.

I got some good hours in yesterday and did a grocery shop. I have housework and a long list of little jobs to catch up on today. Does anyone else use to-do lists? 

We currently live in a modern rental but the master bedroom is over the garage and the floor doesn't seem to be insulated properly. Add in the only window being north facing and you can imagine how cold and damp it gets. My husband bought me a meaco dehumidifier about 2 years ago and it must have paid for itself. Before getting it we would need the heating on all the time or the bedding would feel wet in the winter. Some of your houses sound lovely!

EssexHebridean

Right then - what's occurring today...

Today's Update:
Prolific: £19.47 paid/£1.63 pending 
OnePoll: 680
NSD's: 14/18
Electricity overnight: £1.60 

The electricity figure looks scarier than I think it is - I tweaked the monitor last night but think I need to tweak again to adjust the clock  as that will be reading 15 minutes of heavy night rate use as day rate.  I also turned the front room heater input up a notch last night so there will be some extra cost there.
yesterday was a NSD - I went in to Ahhh-gos to collect the light bulbs but they were already paid for. 
And I reckon I'll get to cash Prolific out again this week - what d'you reckon? Fingers crossed... OnePoll is ticking along. 

Traffic was a little lighter than expected this morning so I parked up with 30 minutes to spare so cycled the long way round including the humungous hill - pleased that felt a LOT easier than last time I rode it though,  I mean I was still gasping for breath like an asthmatic octogenarian by the time I reached the top, but I didn't have to stop this time! I'm taking that as a win...  Just under 4 miles anyway, which is double what I get from my "usual" route. 

The Sant-And-Er incentive got £125 sent to PB's, and the remaining £5 to the Marcus account as I had a feeling I couldn't do other than multiples of £25 in PB's - of course I've checked since and realised that £25 is just the minimum....oh well! That leaves us with £975 worth of PB's now - which as I said to MrEH is an annoying number - I might have to find another £5 to send across. 

Need to keep an eye on the weather with regard to heating over the next few days - it's definitely turned colder. Also need to decide whether economy suggests we're better to turn the hallway heater up an extra degree than turn the front room one up any more, at the moment. That might need daily actual meter readings taken for a while I think. 

Will head to the gym after work while MrEH is at rugby training - although it sounds like he may not actually HAVE training as a lot of them aren't available by the sounds of it. I also need to get the photos from Friday night downloaded and looked at this evening too. 

RelievedSheff

EH,We were always against new builds until we looked at this one.There was just something about this one that felt right from the moment we walked through the door. It's funny because we looked at a couple of the same house type that were available and the other one just didn't feel the same, it wasn't right for us.

Having now lived in our new build for 2.5 years I don't think I could go back to an older house again. The running costs are so low when compared to our previous house which was smaller and semi detached and a tiny fraction of what they were in the big Victorian semi we were in previous to that. It's never cold either, it retains heat really well which is great for us as we hate the cold