Winter is coming...

We have a large Edwardian three story house which is a nightmare to keep warm. My wife has a macbook to work on but I have to use my PC to connect remotely over Citrix to my work PC. Last winter I found that one of those thin uniqlo down gilets under my hoodie or fleece made a really big difference, When it got very cold I put on a much thicker gilet over the top instead. My wife and I work in one smallish room so we just kept that one room warm rather than heat the whole house. The heat from my Radeon VII, even on idle, warmed the room up fairly well.

This year I've got a cheap used laptop which is much more power efficient than a gaming PC. So I have started using that docked to a monitor and mouse/keyboard instead. But it does mean I'll need to find another way to keep that one room warm as the gaming PC won't be pumping out heat.
 
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I'll just put my heating on, go to work all week so don't see why I should sit in the cold, that being said I wear shorts all year round so don't feel the cold as much as some other people.
 
Hades said:
We have a large Edwardian three story house which is a nightmare to keep warm. My wife has a macbook to work on but I have to use my PC to connect remotely over Citrix to my work PC. Last winter I found that one of those thin uniqlo down gilets under my hoodie or fleece made a really big difference, When it got very cold I put on a much thicker gilet over the top instead. My wife and I work in one smallish room so we just kept that one room warm rather than heat the whole house. The heat from my Radeon VII, even on idle, warmed the room up fairly well.

This year I've got a cheap used laptop which is much more power efficient than a gaming PC. So I have started using that docked to a monitor and mouse/keyboard instead. But it does mean I'll need to find another way to keep that one room warm as the gaming PC won't be pumping out heat.
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If you have a particularly cold room I'd suggest getting something like "tesamoll Thermo Cover Window Insulating Film" from an online store.

We used it in my wife's study and it made a massive improvement not just warmer but also quieter. Double glazed as it is but that room in particular has always been a problem in the harsh winters we get up north. £15 more or less sorted it tbh.
 
LabR@t said:
I commented to the wife yesterday I thought it was weird but our tree is going red and dropping leaves in July
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I was on the golf course last evening and it felt very autumnal. Lots of leaves on the ground and chillier than it has been. I had to remind myself it was July.
 
Raumarik said:
If you have a particularly cold room I'd suggest getting something like "tesamoll Thermo Cover Window Insulating Film" from an online store.

We used it in my wife's study and it made a massive improvement not just warmer but also quieter. Double glazed as it is but that room in particular has always been a problem in the harsh winters we get up north. £15 more or less sorted it tbh.
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Thanks. I'll take a look. Most of the windows in the house are single glazed so the rooms at the front of the house (north facing) get particularly cold. The office isn't too bad. It's an old hallway which has been blocked off and a door put in one end. It has a tile floor which is cold (lovely in summer) and one small window at the end. I'll try something like that insulating sheet on the window but luckily the room is in the middle of the house so stays warmish once it gets there.
 
V F said:
No leaves dropping near me. Not even close.
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True, but on the 1st August that's traditionally when people started to acknowledge the fact that winter was on its way and began to prepare.

It is also the great festival of Lugh, or Lug, the great Celtic Sun King and God of Light. August is His sacred month when He initiated great festivities in honour of His mother, Tailtiu.

But underlying this is the knowledge that the bounty and energy of Lugh, of the Sun, is now beginning to wane. It is a time of change and shift. Active growth is slowing down and the darker days of winter and reflection are beckoning...
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Buy a PC with an RTX4000 and an Intel i9. They should be out in time for winter and will keep your house nice and cosy when gaming or mining crypto :)
 
Maundie said:
I'll just put my heating on, go to work all week so don't see why I should sit in the cold, that being said I wear shorts all year round so don't feel the cold as much as some other people.
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Thats the thing about WFH you're paying the energy bill for sitting at home all day rather than just the morning before you get up and when you get home in the evening, I wonder how many large half emtpy office buildings there are with the heating still on full blast there will be this winter
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Thats the thing about WFH you're paying the energy bill for sitting at home all day rather than just the morning before you get up and when you get home in the evening, I wonder how many large half emtpy office buildings there are with the heating still on full blast there will be this winter
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For many saving the cost of commuting more than makes up for the extra energy costs plus the benefit of starting and ending the working day at home. Many also have the option to go back to the office five days a week if they choose. Office space still needs to be heated if it's full or half full.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Thats the thing about WFH you're paying the energy bill for sitting at home all day rather than just the morning before you get up and when you get home in the evening, I wonder how many large half emtpy office buildings there are with the heating still on full blast there will be this winter
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I have my thermostat set at 18 so if I'm in the house or not if it drops below that my heating comes on, it's much more efficient keeping it at that temperature than letting it drop really low and then putting it on when I need it as it has to work a lot harder to warm the room.
 
Maundie said:
I have my thermostat set at 18 so if I'm in the house or not if it drops below that my heating comes on, it's much more efficient keeping it at that temperature than letting it drop really low and then putting it on when I need it as it has to work a lot harder to warm the room.
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Its widely known that this is not the best way to heat a house if saving money if your goal.
 
potatolord said:
In Welsh, July is called Gorffennaf, which literally translated means "end of summer".
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Actually I'm probably wrong. Preparations would probably start around March/April, with regard to getting the land ready for planting. Come harvest-time you need to get that stuff stored so you can eat for the next few months.

I feel bad for our ancestors who had much less advanced agricultural methods. One bad harvest and you're ****** for the winter.
 
Big heated public spaces and offices are a bit of an elephant in the room when it comes to energy use... Maybe we'll see more use of radiative heaters (apparently more efficient for large spaces, heating only surfaces in their line of sight (like human clothing) rather than the full air volume and entire fabric of a building) in some spaces, and personal chair heaters / blankets for offices... Or maybe a lot more places will just be heated to a very low level and everyone will have to keep their winter coats on inside the shopping centre, and only certain rooms in big office blocks will be heated above the frost setting... Guess we'll see.

Have to say I wouldn't mind places like shops being a bit cooler in winter sometimes. One of my pet peeves when it's absolutely freezing outside so you dress up all warm, then you step into a shop that feels like it's about 25 degrees and you have to strip off in the doorway to avoid expiring from the heat.
 
Lysander said:
Actually I'm probably wrong. Preparations would probably start around March/April, with regard to getting the land ready for planting. Come harvest-time you need to get that stuff stored so you can eat for the next few months.

I feel bad for our ancestors who had much less advanced agricultural methods. One bad harvest and you're ****** for the winter.
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Most people throughout all of history were just one bad harvest from starvation.

The great famine in Northern Europe during the 14th century lasted two years and killed about 10% of the population.
 
kinetic747 said:
Which is fine in normal circumstances, not when we're facing the rises to come. Having said that, I'm not quite sure if you're trolling.
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Why would I be trolling, is it because I refuse to moan about the energy costs going up and have stated I'll just be carrying on as normal?

If I'm cold I shall put the heating on, this is unlikely though as my missus feels the cold before me so the heating will probably be kicking in at 20 degrees and I'll be too warm as is the case for the last 20 years we've been together
 
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