jennyjj01 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 12:44 am
That's one thing that struck me about the Texas situation: Most homes are built with zero or p155 poor insulation. They probably spend all year using electric powered Air-con just to cool the home. Electricity and money they could have saved with just a bit of rock-wool in the walls.
I was reading about the energy consumption elsewhere. Everything has to be shut down at some point for maintenance and the winter is normally the time to do it in texas as peak load is summertime running air con. We seem to be pretty poor with regards to insulation and passive heating/cooling in this country but it seems even worse in other places.
With regards to the rule of three thing we are currently without a boiler. It packed up last weekend ( only 18 years old , nothing lasts eh?) . We have a woodburner and some portable heaters so all that is covered. One slight "hole" is that we can't heat large quanties of water. It doesn't bother me too much as i grew up in a house where it was not unknown to have a "bath" with just a sink of hot water but my wife and daughter do miss not being able to just step in the shower although my daughter has said it doesn't really matter as she hasn't got to go to school and she'll be the only one to see her greasy hair and smell her stink
Big hook in bathroom ceiling over bath / shower cubicle...
Solar shower filled with Kelly kettle hung on hook sorted
When i was younger we had a device that was a simple dome shaped rubber foot pump connected to a tube with a ring with holes at the end . Couple of inches of water in the bath and the ring over your head, press the dome with the foot and hey presto a shower.
As it is one thing we do is to use thermos flasks . Once the water in the kettle on the woodburner is hot it goes into flasks and the kettle refilled and so on which gives us a larger volume of hot water when we need it. Just requires more thought than turning on the hot tap. Perhaps i should have said the hole is being able to heat large quanties in a very short time.
It's perhaps ironic that the neighbours have just installed a huge hot tube in their garden and i said to my wife that i couldn't understand why anyone would want such a thing...
As a "positive" my wife has decreed that as we are not using the shower now is the ideal time for me to redo the grubby looking grouting. Every cloud and all that i suppose...
grenfell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:39 am
As a "positive" my wife has decreed that as we are not using the shower now is the ideal time for me to redo the grubby looking grouting. Every cloud and all that i suppose...
grenfell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:39 am
As a "positive" my wife has decreed that as we are not using the shower now is the ideal time for me to redo the grubby looking grouting. Every cloud and all that i suppose...
Putting the stuff in is the easy part and i've got the float for the job. In the end i cleared the room , disposable overalls and masked up and cut it out with a thin diamond blade in the angle grinder. Makes a mess but got it over with. Replaced a couple of cracked tiles and will grout it up tomorrow.
Going slightly off topic , my wife was talking to her sister on the phone and i was listening to the conversation. The boiler is going in sometime towards the end of next week . To be fair it's no great problem to us but my SIL was saying how she'd hate to be in that position because she HAS to have a shower and wash her hair every day. Seems a bit excessive to mr.
