What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12

[diamond lil]

Keep stacking peeps whether it's food, wood, coal, silver or gold...

Definitely pseud! Desperate times indeed.

[Frnc]

Just noticed I haven't backed up my desktop for a month, so doing that now. I have 3 external drives for this. Updates in the last few days, mac and phone, done. Most stuff is in the cloud, of course. I put important docs like tax returns in icloud as well as on disc. All my notes and spreadsheets are in the cloud. All my music. Apple Music has even uploaded my physical CDs to the cloud.

Got 5 plasic bins, biggest I could fit on prep room shelves. Filled one with stuff toileteries/hygeine stuff mainly, one with comestibles (veg gravy powder, parsley sauce powder, bags of psyllium husk and inulin), one with various prep items. Got two empty, and a bit more space on the shelves.

Booked appointment to get cleaners in. Getting too old for it. I did do a kitchen window ledge and the glass today. It's £66 an hour for two people who will be actually here, cleaning for an hour. That is their minimum, they only work in pairs, and it's a company, not people I know. Once a month should do, for now (will have to, though I could start with 2 hours, £132). I've never had a cleaner before, so not sure what to expect. Anyone got any idea how much the two of them should get done in an hour? I have hall (wood floor), stairs and landing (carpeted), bathroom, living room (wood floor), kitchen. Presumably the obvious stuff like floors, bathroom and kitchen? Boss is ringing me Fri morning to go through details.

House is still shaking, regularly, but I probably only notice cos I'm lying on my bed, typing. Beds amplify vibrations. Bit unnerving though.

Anyone see the news? My god, start a thread someone.

[pseudonym]

Snip> Just noticed I haven't backed up my desktop for a month, so doing that now.

Timely reminder. Thankyou.

Snip> Booked appointment to get cleaners in. Getting too old for it. I did do a kitchen window ledge and the glass today. It's £66 an hour for two people who will be actually here, cleaning for an hour. That is their minimum, they only work in pairs, and it's a company, not people I know. Once a month should do, for now (will have to, though I could start with 2 hours, £132). I've never had a cleaner before, so not sure what to expect. Anyone got any idea how much the two of them should get done in an hour? I have hall (wood floor), stairs and landing (carpeted), bathroom, living room (wood floor), kitchen. Presumably the obvious stuff like floors, bathroom and kitchen? Boss is ringing me Fri morning to go through details.

A good use of your money vs time spent. I do the same for:

1. my wood use, pay someone to split it, dry kiln it and deliver it.

2. cutting my grass.

[Peter]

We’re in our eighties so we too have to “delegate” some jobs, cutting the grass and the trees. power washing the patio, cleaning the gutters (i’m banned from climbing ladders). This winter will probably be the last one humping coal .

[diamond lil]

Had coal fires all my life Peter - and propane for cooking - until 4 years ago, have never missed it and now appreciate gas central heating.

[Peter]

The plan is the multi-fuel stove will stay in situe in the chimney breast but be boarded over
(easily opened up when SHTF) a ceramic heater will top up the central heating, we will just
keep a little coal just in case.

[Yorkshire Andy]

The plan is the multi-fuel stove will stay in situe in the chimney breast but be boarded over
(easily opened up when SHTF) a ceramic heater will top up the central heating, we will just
keep a little coal just in case.

Look into modern "far infared" heaters

Examples

https://www.infraredcompany.com/product ... 0-400watts


https://www.infraredcompany.com/pages/i ... uggestions

Other brands available first one to pop up on Google

[Frnc]

Cleaning boss came round in the end. Think I haggled the price without really realising. £66 for two cleaners for an hour apparently is for routine cleaning, which is every week or two - every 4 weeks could mean the house gets very dirty in between. I assured her I'd try to keep on top of things in between. And the extra hour on the first visit would normally be at a higher rate. But I assume she's decided to stick with those prices.

Seemed to think they could do everything in that amount of time. That's hall, stairs, landing, bathroom, kitchen, and one living room. In fact she added some things, like front of kitchen cupboards and kitchen window sills. So, that all sounds good. I did a bit on the bathroom floor today, and it was killing my back.

Next, a gardener!

[Peter]

The plan is the multi-fuel stove will stay in situe in the chimney breast but be boarded over
(easily opened up when SHTF) a ceramic heater will top up the central heating, we will just
keep a little coal just in case.

Look into modern "far infared" heaters

Examples

https://www.infraredcompany.com/product ... 0-400watts


https://www.infraredcompany.com/pages/i ... uggestions

Other brands available first one to pop up on Google

They look very interesting, definitely a contender, thanks.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Bought a second hand basic thermal imaging camera ....

Uses as a prepper checking insulation... seeing the effect of insulation or finding where it's missing in the attic

Finding loose electrical fittings job this .morning is check the ring main circuit breaker as it didn't look overly happy last night *hotter than the others with not much load* might be nothing but won't harm to get it checked and the wire fixings torqued up

This is our front door you can see the benefit of using a door curtain even with the modern insulated composite door