Energy thread
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Our house has been 16C a few times already but we've only had the heating on for ~1.5 hours this side of summer. It's fine, I WFH and just wear a down gilet most of the time. The other thing is moving more, it's easy to feel cold when not doing anything but run up and down the stairs a few times and you'll quickly warm up.
When my partner and toddler come home they also layer up. I'm planning on sewing an insulated gilet for my toddler with some scrap fabric and insulation I have lying around. Until then she has plenty of knitted cardigans.0 -
I'd insult a gilet if I knew how to. There'd be no arm in it.
Sorry, etc...
Obviously the answer is to have a work station rigged up in front of a turbo, or, if you want an extra challenge, rollers. You could practise taking the gilt off at the same time too.0 -
I do know someone who has a turbo rigged up in their house as a 'get warm' mechanism. Not a cyclist anymore and don't do 'proper' sessions on it but keep it set up so they can do a 5 minute spin in order to get warm.0
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By not living in the sticks.surrey_commuter said:How do those of you withot logburners put upwith the cold? it is 18 degrees inside and after two hours my fingers are going numb.
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That is a very valid point. We can’t be far off our first frost, would you like a picture to see what you are missing?TheBigBean said:
By not living in the sticks.surrey_commuter said:How do those of you withot logburners put upwith the cold? it is 18 degrees inside and after two hours my fingers are going numb.
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Is it a bit like this?
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What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !0 -
A random internet chappie posting up photos he took in my garden is a bit unnervingkingstongraham said:Is it a bit like this?
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Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !- Genesis Croix de Fer
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surrey_commuter said:
A random internet chappie posting up photos he took in my garden is a bit unnervingkingstongraham said:Is it a bit like this?
Give him his due, he's using the literal definition of 'stalking'.1 -
Exactly! I cannot fathom why everything has to be "connected" to work.pangolin said:
Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !
Even a basic timer and thermostat.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Last house just had a boiler temp setting and no timerpblakeney said:
Exactly! I cannot fathom why everything has to be "connected" to work.pangolin said:
Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !
Even a basic timer and thermostat.
The app based thermostat is almost the equivalent of a dropper post to mountain bikers 👍1 -
Just goes to show....mully79 said:
Last house just had a boiler temp setting and no timerpblakeney said:
Exactly! I cannot fathom why everything has to be "connected" to work.pangolin said:
Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !
Even a basic timer and thermostat.
The app based thermostat is almost the equivalent of a dropper post to mountain bikers 👍
Our house was built this way in the '80s. Thought everyone would have caught up by now.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
As a recent acquirer of a dropper post…mully79 said:
Last house just had a boiler temp setting and no timerpblakeney said:
Exactly! I cannot fathom why everything has to be "connected" to work.pangolin said:
Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !
Even a basic timer and thermostat.
The app based thermostat is almost the equivalent of a dropper post to mountain bikers 👍
Don’t conflate a game changing experience with rendering existing functionality in a different way.
Disc brakes would be better analogy. They both stop you.0 -
What have you been doing ? I’m a 26er riding dinosaur and even I converted to a dropper 3 or 4 years back. 😂😂morstar said:
As a recent acquirer of a dropper post…mully79 said:
Last house just had a boiler temp setting and no timerpblakeney said:
Exactly! I cannot fathom why everything has to be "connected" to work.pangolin said:
Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !
Even a basic timer and thermostat.
The app based thermostat is almost the equivalent of a dropper post to mountain bikers 👍
Don’t conflate a game changing experience with rendering existing functionality in a different way.
Disc brakes would be better analogy. They both stop you.0 -
We don't have a thermostat.
Heating is either off or on and you adjust radiators to suit.
As far as I can tell....0 -
Sounds to me that this country could do with moving into the 20th century.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
So right now though it’s bordering on too cold in the mornings, given it’s a south facing house and it’s still 13-15 degrees in the day, as long as there’s a bit of sun the temp is back up to 20 without needing to have the boiler on at all.
Pretty good for a cheaply built house…!0 -
In all fairness, I’ve only had the mtb a year. But yes, once I bit the bullet, I wondered why I waited.mully79 said:
What have you been doing ? I’m a 26er riding dinosaur and even I converted to a dropper 3 or 4 years back. 😂😂morstar said:
As a recent acquirer of a dropper post…mully79 said:
Last house just had a boiler temp setting and no timerpblakeney said:
Exactly! I cannot fathom why everything has to be "connected" to work.pangolin said:
Thermostats have been doing this for years.mully79 said:What started out as testing my new web based CH thermostat has capitulated into heating being on schedule. Being able to set different temps at different times is a revelation.
Heating on 7-8 am 19 DegC
Back on at 6:30 till 9:30 20 DegC
4 hours a day has cost me about £20 a week (at price cap) and is miles better than wearing a turtleneck !
Even a basic timer and thermostat.
The app based thermostat is almost the equivalent of a dropper post to mountain bikers 👍
Don’t conflate a game changing experience with rendering existing functionality in a different way.
Disc brakes would be better analogy. They both stop you.0 -
do you have a timer?shirley_basso said:We don't have a thermostat.
Heating is either off or on and you adjust radiators to suit.
As far as I can tell....0 -
That I do have, which I use for the hot water.
Heating has only been switched on out of necessity so far, rather than on the timer.0 -
Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.0
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Must be down to Brexit.Dorset_Boy said:Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
On the Snowheads forum the joke is its's down to the Tories and BrexitStevo_666 said:
Must be down to Brexit.Dorset_Boy said:Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.
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only a brexiter would be stupid enough to believe thatStevo_666 said:
Must be down to Brexit.Dorset_Boy said:Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
It's strike action and picketing. How very pan-European. I thought Brits had opted out of that European nonsense and taken back control?0
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Dorset_Boy said:
On the Snowheads forum the joke is its's down to the Tories and BrexitStevo_666 said:
Must be down to Brexit.Dorset_Boy said:Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The real thickos are those who can't spot an obvious jokesungod said:
only a brexiter would be stupid enough to believe thatStevo_666 said:
Must be down to Brexit.Dorset_Boy said:Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The French clearly haven't.orraloon said:It's strike action and picketing. How very pan-European. I thought Brits had opted out of that European nonsense and taken back control?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
like i said, brexitersStevo_666 said:
The real thickos are those who can't spot an obvious jokesungod said:
only a brexiter would be stupid enough to believe thatStevo_666 said:
Must be down to Brexit.Dorset_Boy said:Seems like there are big fuel shortages in much of France and fuel rationing going on at petrol stations.
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0
