Clocks going back

Last stop? Are you implying that I live in Lewisham? Think carefully
before you answer.

Top tip. Install a shower indoors.
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I've never felt the need, tbh. In fact, I'm not sure if it's got one.

Hang on ... <checks> ... Ooh, so it does. How does that work, then?
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Hah! Apparently the cooker and microwave are reading usenet as they
were wrong when I went out but correct on my return. Still hasd to
sort the steam-powered CH controller, mind - I don't think it is
compliant with modern communication standards.

 

Well, some people feel the need to limit the times their central
heating is enabled. My (rather clunky) control is a 24-hour wheel with
two sets of on-and-off tabs that can be set at Will. Then there are three
buttons each for hot water and heating: Off-Timed-Continuous. So my hot
water heater is enabled continuously, and currently my heating is enabled
6AM-9AM and 5PM-midnight. (Seeing as I rise at 7 AM, leave for work before
9, arrive back at 6 or 7 PM and am in bed by twelve.)

That reminds me, I have a gas bill to pay...

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Can the tabs be set at Won't too?

 

I wouldn't dream of it, old chum. It's set to "on", so we have hot
water all the time, and the downstairs thermostat is sat (almost
permanently) on 10degC. So, in practice, it is indeed, hardly ever on.

Occasionally, I confess, it might get swung up to 20degC when we get
in on a particularly cold evening, but it goes off pretty sharpish one
we've warmed up. If I had the heating on in the morning, I'm not sure
if I'd ever wake up. I have enough difficulty as it is.

The c/h was never on when we had a flat - in fact the living room
windows were never fully closed in the eleven years we lived there.
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'appen ;-)

Prolly not. Same reason as Ivan, as it 'appens - timing for HW is
fairly critical and as the confounded wood-burning bastard effort has
nail-breakingly stiff (that's why I got to do it, then) slidey pegs
and it *has* to be twice on as there is no other feasible option I
felt the clock would be better on than off. Set to
asfuckingclosetogetherasIcanget'em the slidey pegs yield ~80 minutes
duration for HW on, so being 60 minutes out would chill the pooch a
bit if not actually screw the fucker.

On the plus side, this house is the warmest place I've ever inhabited
- to the extent that we were sitting without any form of heating the
other night, in Tshirts, glowing gently at midnight.

 

They don't in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq or Afghanistan.

They do in the States.

 

I know exactly what you mean. My body temperature is always lower in
the mornings, so I feel the cold most then and if it's not warm in the
house it's an instinctive reaction to stay in bed where its nice and
cosy.

People are different though. When we moved into the house there was
_no_ control on the central heating at all, bar an on/off switch. To
enable us to get up we had to leave it on all night - then to ensure
it was warm when we got home in the evening it was left on all day.
You can imagine the fuel bill for that first winter. How the previous
occupants managed I don't know.

Which reminds me - I need to order some fuel oil - anyone in the know
about fuel prices in the next few months? Only I could order up to
about 5000 litres, but if prices are going to drop I want to get the
minimum I need until that time.

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Heh. Judith was using the pool yesterday. Water temperature was a
bracing 21degC, so a bit low for me, but she was sat out in the sun
and was actually getting hot enough to need a cooling dip every now
and then.

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my heating is enabled

You can knock an hour off those end times in that case.

 

Fucking hell. It's still around 32C here in the (with a blip of 40C
last weekend). I don't know if I can come back to the fucking cold.

lol!

 

I love this type of weather, around 16C in the day, cold overnight,
clear skies. Perfect.

 

Move to South Africa then - up in the north you get that every single day
from around May through to August.

 

it was 21C yesterday, in Enfield, and only a degree cooler in Hatfield.

Quite a lot of windchill, though.

 

Bugger...

<scurries as well>

 

16c? Global warming must have kicked in big time in the last 25 years
because I can remember picking up spanners and finding my hand
sticking to them because of the cold until about 9am in the winter
when I was living there.

 

The idea being that you're not heating water and using gas when you
don't need to be. Even if your thermostat isn't turning the pump on
to supply the radiators, the water will still be being heated.

Mine comes on at 4.30 and heats the water for morning showers and
maybe radiators depending on the temp, knocks itself off at 8.30 when
we go to work. Then back on from 4.30pm to 9pm.

 

70lbs of unsightly insulation helps, and frankly I'm no better.

I think it might also be a conditioning thing.

When I was a lad, my dear old mum used to have the gas fire on so that
you could *just* see a faint blue line above the nozzles. There was no
other heating in the house. If I was cold, I put a jumper on. Or two.

When Linda and I used to visit, she'd be sat there, under about
eighteen cardigans, wondering why we were shivering. One memorable
winters afternoon, we didn't summon up the courage to take our coats
off. We'd only ridden 40 odd miles, and it wasn't *that* cold outside
- it just used to feel colder indoors.
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Someone in uk.d-i-y suggested this

https://www.boilerjuice.com/

I don't use oil so I don't care