What Preps are you doing this week? Part 9

[Frnc]

Below 18.5 is quite cold, for the main rooms you are using. Our living room is set below that because it's hardly used, and because it tends to be a couple of degrees colder than my bedroom. My room is currently 19.4 and I have a fleece on and warm joggers (Under Armor Amour Fleece). Had to override it when the chirping woke me up, plus a quick boost later. Sun's warmed the living room up now anyway. If my room goes below 19 I might give the heating a quick half hour on. I hardly heat the kitchen at all, and the hall is on about 50%.

Yes. 18.5 is cold. I doubt i'll take it lower. The boiler stat is in the hall and i haven't figured out how the lounge gets > 21 when the core stat is set so low. Bedrooms have to take their chances and currently are about 19.
I'll figure it out. I do know that draughts make cold more conspicuous. Might invest in some door sausage draught excluders. Maybe door open beepers to nag us

Did you say that app was edf? It get's rubbish reviews and offers very few features. I haven't managed to install it yet.
Roll on summer.

The app is edf, yes. It's pretty good. It tells me how much I've use by the hour, day, month, season and year. It allows me to easily compare use to same time last year. It's just having a wobble on gas after the hard reset, but the IHD is sill working, so I'm using that. Should fix itself in a day or two hopefully.

[jennyjj01]

The app is edf, yes. It's pretty good. It tells me how much I've use by the hour, day, month, season and year. It allows me to easily compare use to same time last year. It's just having a wobble on gas after the hard reset, but the IHD is sill working, so I'm using that. Should fix itself in a day or two hopefully.

Hmmm. The EDF website can't show me gas usage for Wednesday, either. which is unusual. Maybe they have a network data fault of some sort. Home display working fine. Mine always has apart from the unusual start of day time.
Oh Hum. We'll survive.

[Frnc]

The app is edf, yes. It's pretty good. It tells me how much I've use by the hour, day, month, season and year. It allows me to easily compare use to same time last year. It's just having a wobble on gas after the hard reset, but the IHD is sill working, so I'm using that. Should fix itself in a day or two hopefully.

Hmmm. The EDF website can't show me gas usage for Wednesday, either. which is unusual. Maybe they have a network data fault of some sort. Home display working fine. Mine always has apart from the unusual start of day time.
Oh Hum. We'll survive.

Interesting. Must be coincidence then, with it being the day after I did a hard reset. I've only just started using the IHD.

[Frnc]

EDF is showing Wednesday's gas now, but not the hourly yet, that usually comes a day later anyway. Tallies with what I read off the IHD this morning.

[jansman]

Picked up petrol and oil for my chainsaw today - so I have enough until Spring. Got both stoves going most of the time, and the cottage is lovely and warm. Takes a bit of work, but if the power goes off, we’ll be warm. If the power goes off, there’s plenty of emergency lighting and cooking. We wake up in the morning , especially when illness is a concern, so we look at good life.

Prices are up, and stuff is short in many cases. However, there ARE ways around the above. Anyone got actual happiness?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Had a customer give me a square bale of straw for my help today ... That's the chickens happy after I've hoovered out the car

Been to the dentist too just a check up .. got told I'm keeping them clean (which makes a change) and no treatment needed...




Just dug the portable bio ethanol stove out and given it a clean (read wiped the dust off) put 200ml of fuel in to dry it out. It's soon taken the chill off in the kitchen which is the coldest room in the house ..

Not for any reason just getting it ready if the power goes off now it's turning cooler

Got another lamp on order this one will apparently run on cooking oil or kerro can see cooking oil been too thick but for ,£9 it's worth a try if needs be it'll get lamp oil

[jansman]

Had a customer give me a square bale of straw for my help today ... That's the chickens happy after I've hoovered out the car

Been to the dentist too just a check up .. got told I'm keeping them clean (which makes a change) and no treatment needed...




Just dug the portable bio ethanol stove out and given it a clean (read wiped the dust off) put 200ml of fuel in to dry it out. It's soon taken the chill off in the kitchen which is the coldest room in the house ..

Not for any reason just getting it ready if the power goes off now it's turning cooler

Got another lamp on order this one will apparently run on cooking oil or kerro can see cooking oil been too thick but for ,£9 it's worth a try if needs be it'll get lamp oil

Top man! Straw in my motor is the same as yours!

[Frnc]

Boiler came on an hour later today, after changing timings etc. Thermostat room (living room) was 16.5°C. Boiler ran for about 20 minutes and switched off when the room reached 17.5˘C. Actually it went a bit over, to 17.9, but that's ok. My room has reached 19.5°. Weather is not too cold, about 8°.
Gas use last two days has been around 40 - 41 kWh per day, which is a little bit below last year's November average (42.7 per day), so not too bad. Should end the month around 1,000 kWh. Last year Nov was 1,280.
The first hour of the day always uses a lot more gas than any other hour. I'm using about 7-9 kWh in the first hour, probably actually in about 20 minutes or so.
Electricity should be at least 10% down on last Nov as well. Using 6.1 kWh per day average.

[Arzosah]

I seem to be permanently playing tetris in the house. At the moment, the focus is on paperwork (there's a prepping angle, I promise). Getting my tax return done - and finding lots of old paperwork even in the office upstairs. But I used to keep old paperwork ready to be thrown in the open cupboard by the back door? Oh, its still there. A bagful, that I was going to shred/burn and put on the garden, but didn't get round to it.

Pulled the bag out .... its been there so long, there's mould on the outside wall and I realised, looking at stuff I've put on my windowsills, there's condensation on the windows, which is going to encourage mould to grow there too

My house is stuffed full quite a few of my preps are in accessible because I can't reach them or haven't stored them logically, just stuffed them in where I can. Honestly, all that time in lockdown, what the dickens was I doing? Argh ...

[Frnc]

I seem to be permanently playing tetris in the house. At the moment, the focus is on paperwork (there's a prepping angle, I promise). Getting my tax return done - and finding lots of old paperwork even in the office upstairs. But I used to keep old paperwork ready to be thrown in the open cupboard by the back door? Oh, its still there. A bagful, that I was going to shred/burn and put on the garden, but didn't get round to it.

Pulled the bag out .... its been there so long, there's mould on the outside wall and I realised, looking at stuff I've put on my windowsills, there's condensation on the windows, which is going to encourage mould to grow there too

My house is stuffed full quite a few of my preps are in accessible because I can't reach them or haven't stored them logically, just stuffed them in where I can. Honestly, all that time in lockdown, what the dickens was I doing? Argh ...

I have one of those metal boxes with folders inside for paperwork, with the little plastic tabs at the top that fall off. The lid is open. It opens 180° so it sticks out sideways and makes the top twice as wide. On top of this is stacked 95% of my paperwork, about 8" high, completey random. Nothing gets filed! Of course 95% of my stuff is digital these days, done online. I keep most of the few bits of paper I do get to do things like buy visitor parking permits, but even that's now done online and using screenshots. The paperwork just fits under the shelf above. It's quite tight now, which stops it all toppling over in a paperwork tsunami, but I'll need to scrap some soon. Believe it or not, I did 'sort' through it a few months ago, and chucked out quite a bit. One day I'll do it properly and file it, honest. It's on a book case with quite tall shelves. The rest of it is amost all prep stuff. I have food, stoves, fuel, all the usual, even 10l water.