Winter 2023/24 - It's FREEZING!

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andy_mk3 said:
Can't imagine the efficiency of either are too great :D
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Dunno but 500 litres in 14 months 55p litre last I can't remember the energy in 1 litre.
Well the plasma depends on what you are watching,I reckon 350 watts and oled will definitely be more efficient but I love that TV
Edit 10.35 kWh /litre and I reckon mine is high 90 percent efficient as it's been moon manned
 
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When you said your boiler was old I was thinking of a Wilson Wallflame - It took ages to fire up as it relied on spark on cold oil -updated to mk2 which had a pre-heater -came on instantly. My first second hand boiler in early 80's and it was old then.
 
DXP55 said:
When you said your boiler was old I was thinking of a Wilson Wallflame - It took ages to fire up as it relied on spark on cold oil -updated to mk2 which had a pre-heater -came on instantly. My first second hand boiler in early 80's and it was old then.
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Was thinking it can't be that old its got a digital display on it - when its got a rotary dial that goes "click, click" then you know its an antique. Still remember the boiler we had at the family house as kid it was there when we moved in and it was still there when we moved out only the thermostat was changed the boiler was a cast iron thing and basically bomb proof not like the ones these days that seem to be made of tinfoil that need renewing every few years
 
Had quite heavy snow on 12th December last year looking at forecast it might be on for that again in December! although it was a one day event.
 
moon man said:
Dunno but 500 litres in 14 months 55p litre last I can't remember the energy in 1 litre.
Well the plasma depends on what you are watching,I reckon 350 watts and oled will definitely be more efficient but I love that TV
Edit 10.35 kWh /litre and I reckon mine is high 90 percent efficient as it's been moon manned
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Crikey, we go through about 2,500 litres a year and that's even with burning wood in a biomass boiler as well. Winters are something else up here though.
 
moon man said:
It's a bit like my panasonic plasma, as long as it keeps doing its job (and that.heats my living room ha) then it will stay, unless a generous grant is offered
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Have a 20 year old boiler with 1 knob. It's still working. Gas engineer said don't bother replacing it until it breaks.
 
Mysterae_ said:
Crikey, we go through about 2,500 litres a year and that's even with burning wood in a biomass boiler as well. Winters are something else up here though.
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Also I live on my own ,when my family are down here it gets cranked up, here's where I am at this morning,so under the heated throw it's toasty ,.it's been torrential outside so I can live with the humidity (have put humidifier in bedroom to extract my moisture)
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413x said:
Have a 20 year old boiler with 1 knob. It's still working. Gas engineer said don't bother replacing it until it breaks.
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Had a look at my Worcester Bosch on eBay and 2005 seems to be around the date, I think they did a non timer model,.I scavenged mine from another boiler, pretty simple add on really guessing it only outputs two things boiler on true/ false same with ch.
Since I changed the circuit board though as soon as I put Ch on it will circulate the cold water , doesn't wait for it to heat,.this means I can't leave it on stat with ch constantly on or I constantly draw 400 watts plus wear on pump edit/ maybe there's another stat that does this,need to ask next time I get the burner set up (I have a carbon monoxide alarm above boiler)
 
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It will get worse. This is about the limit where I have to start dressing up properly after -16/-17
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Houses have good insulation I take it? Not like here
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Tbh not really its a 60s built wooden house very typical. Ive only got to see inside the walls when we changed some windows.
2 layers of lagging/insulation made of god knows what fibreglass woven stuff (rockwool they call it ) whatever was around then.
Windows are double and triple glazed. whole house is razed about 50cm from the ground and there's a 1m "basement" covered in sand and lined with some kind of thick plastic sheeting to stop moisture and "cold"
The roof is sheet metal, nearly everything is built out of it here... at first i was disturbed how awful it looked, after being so used to slate rooves, but now its just normal and extremely practical in the climate.

i guess there's a reason they built them like this, cost effective and warm enough its very easy to keep it 21deg inside....
Its unboreable warm in summer in sun facing rooms, mostly due to the length of the days.

We dont have aircon but its very common here, Hicksville USA, rural America, is basically Sweden.
 
Stu999 said:
@Efour - are there many beautiful, blonde ladies where you live to make up for the weather?
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The gene pool up here is " shallow" compared to down south when it comes to constant blondes....
Everyone tends to work out and is sporty (not me) so that goes a long way too.

My wife, no im not gay, a surprise to even me, is from the northern sweden gene pool, short fat eskimo with pretty eyes and a lovely smile... :p looool
A lot of women up here are "frontier" types, can shoot and skin a moose then make you meatballs in 30 mins whilst chopping wood and looking after the kids. I live in the wild west.. (north)
 
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