Any must have gadgets/items for a new home?

Glaucus said:
Some other deisngs have finned pipes with a slot over metal cover, that can't be efficient.
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That sounds more efficient to me? Same as processor heatsinks.

Thermaskirt is just pipes run around a room with a cover on, you still face the problem of what do you do when it gets to a doorway.
I can see the advantages in big rooms in that you don't want to be falling over radiators, but in small rooms a panel radiator under the window does a good enough job of heating a room and the modern flat ones look OK.


Had a chuckle the other day, instead on buying a towel radiator, this guy had just made a few teed-off sections of hot water pipe and hung his towel on that :)
 
HangTime said:
-Shoe rack (one of our most surprisingly awesome purchases, it's great, we have it in the hall and it holds about 12-16 pairs of shoes plus space on top for putting keys, pens, mail, coin jar etc basically all the crap you want to put to one side when you get home. I can't believe we lived without it for so long... shoes randomly scattered in the hall/kitchen/downstairs loo..... keys forever getting dumped on the kitchen surfaces and then misplaced etc)
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I need one - Tell me more! Where from? How much?
 
Was only a cheap one from Homebase/Argos, It was something similar to this but with two handles per drawer and the hings were a different colour: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9018828.htm

I like the way you close the front panels and everything is hidden away from view, a lot better than our old, low standing chrome rack where everything was in full view and would get easily knocked off etc.

The shape is ideal for where we wanted it (in a small recess next to the staircase in the hall) as it is quite thin in terms of depth and tall enough to use the top as a shelf to put bits and pieces on. When freestanding this tall+thin shape means it isn't the most stable piece of furniture in the world but it has a fitting at the top to screw into a wall which I did and it is solid as a rock now.

Only thing I can fault it on really is it can't really handle 'tall' shoes without squashing them slightly but we have enough normal shoes to fill it anyway!
 
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bitslice said:
That sounds more efficient to me? Same as processor heatsinks.

Thermaskirt is just pipes run around a room with a cover on, you still face the problem of what do you do when it gets to a doorway.
I can see the advantages in big rooms in that you don't want to be falling over radiators, but in small rooms a panel radiator under the window does a good enough job of heating a room and the modern flat ones look OK.


Had a chuckle the other day, instead on buying a towel radiator, this guy had just made a few teed-off sections of hot water pipe and hung his towel on that :)
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Thermaskirt is not a cover, it's one seamless unit, so no thermal barriers.

It's nothing like a CPU heat sink, on other designs you have pipes then a thermal barrier to the fins, then another thermal barrier to the cover before finally giving of heat, far far from efficient.
Thermaskirt is a big heatsink with built in pipes, so no thermal barrier at all.
 
HangTime said:
Was only a cheap one from Homebase/Argos, It was something similar to this but with two handles per drawer and the hings were a different colour: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/9018828.htm

I like the way you close the front panels and everything is hidden away from view, a lot better than our old, low standing chrome rack where everything was in full view and would get easily knocked off etc.

The shape is ideal for where we wanted it (in a small recess next to the staircase in the hall) as it is quite thin in terms of depth and tall enough to use the top as a shelf to put bits and pieces on. When freestanding this tall+thin shape means it isn't the most stable piece of furniture in the world but it has a fitting at the top to screw into a wall which I did and it is solid as a rock now.

Only thing I can fault it on really is it can't really handle 'tall' shoes without squashing them slightly but we have enough normal shoes to fill it anyway!
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We have one and whilst it is nice it is pretty much pointless for me as it won't accomodate my size 12s, where you could normally put 4 pairs of shoes you have to squeeze 2 in there at an angle instead, so ours is pretty much full of the missus shoes.
 
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