What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Kiwififer]

It’s no me! I had the heating off and then the wife came home…

[Yorkshire Andy]

It’s no me! I had the heating off and then the wife came home…

I know that issue all to well I was outside from 7:30 this morning once the sun got up it was nice

I work outside all year round so don't really feel the cold unless it's really cold

[Kiwififer]

Snap. I cut the grass and trimmed down the clematis which is growing like mad so I was out for most of the afternoon and didn’t feel the cold.

The wife’s been to aqua aerobics and came in and switched the heating on.

The Dundonian in me was screaming ‘pit a jumper on’ so I get it!

[Nurseandy]

We had the heating on Saturday evening due to having visitors. It's off again now and I've taken the handle off the oil tank valve so it stays off

[jansman]

Well,right now,I am lying in bed with tea and warming up hat,ice- fishing gloves and army scarf.They ARE clean BTW! Gonna load the car in a minute.Right now,the windows are open and back door too,so doggy can wander in and out til Mrs J goes to work. It’s a ‘fresh ‘ house ,even in Winter. However,when I get home this PM ,I will light the big stove,and we WILL all be lovely and warm.

Joking aside everyone,please stay warm when you have to. ( I’m not joking about the door and windows though! )

[Frnc]

Temperature getting borderline, but not had the heating on yet and don't intent to until near the end of the month. It's on auto at the moment anyway, but it only reads in 1/2 degree increments and I'm guessing it needs to get 1/2 degree below what it's set at to trigger the boiler. At the moment it's set to 17.5 and reading 17.5 and the boiler hasn't come on. My room is 19.4. My hands are a bit cold.
Am waiting for my convertable fingerless gloves -> mitts to arrive from China.

[Arzosah]

I've got a couple of layers of warmth on, and I'm putting the heating on for about half an hour in the morning, for the last 3 days.

Own preps, I'm carrying on cleaning the living room floor, bit by bit, so I can lay insulating bits and bobs. Plus carrying on sorting paperwork.

[pseudonym]

Reptile tank heater as used in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtcr_qTBrM

[GillyBee]

We have the heatig set to auto but it is going to have to drop below about 16C indoors to come on. So far if anyone is cold we stick a wheat bag in the microwave or fill a hot water bottle and cuddle it for a bit. Putting the wheat bag in a pocket to warm fingers aso works. So far this seems to be working well and no one chez GillyBee is complaining. Temperatures are dropping steadily now though so we will see how we do over the next month.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Just done a test burn of the bio ethanol fireplace mainly used for decorative heating think this winter it might become more erm practical...


Just had a measure of 150 ml of ethanol ..

Last 42 minutes to a tiny flicker of flame.....

2l of bio ethanol works out at £7 with the wife's staff discount.....


3.57 ml per minute consumption


At 150ml I can get 13 point Something refills from 2l


So if I do a continuous burn 40 minutes on 20 cooling to refill safely

I'll work on a bottle lasting a "day," can't see us running if for 13 hours a day but worst case us all being at home shtf and blisteringly cold we can hunker In one "warm" room

So I've got 10 days worth on stock at that rate (20l )

If my maths this late on is right it's costing about .53p per fill for 40 minutes of warm

The burner maker says it puts out 2kw of heat so in the lounge with the doors shut is more than enough there's a legacy double air brick vent from the old back boiler which is clear plus the uPVC trickle vents so there's plenty of fresh air admission

Plus a co alarm in the room even though the makers all say it doesn't produce co just co2+ water vapour