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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2022 8:45:08 GMT
Hybrid heat pump/gas boiler is a good idea, Dubya. I'd like to keep the house at an indicated 19c in the winter, but other, more vocal residents, often demand a few degrees higher. Those voices may find themselves challenged more firmly this year.
Many of my rads are doubles but some are singles, and a lot of them are probably 1971 originals. I think larger ones would have to be installed, but that nibbles away at room space quite significantly. Although my house has quite large rooms so may not be the worst problem.
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Post by EspadaIII on Sept 13, 2022 12:16:26 GMT
Modern radiators are very efficient both due to design and also because they have no old sludge inside. You have to be careful with temperature as too low and you start to have problems with condensation on cold surfaces leading to black mould. Ventilation helps but it is a fine balance between forcing hot moist air out of the house and letting cold dry air in and paying to heat it up.
You should fit thermostatic valves on radiators in habitable rooms to keep those to 19C but fully open radiators in rooms which have moisture (such as bathrooms/toilets/kitchens) and ensure that those rooms also have extractor fans running for decent periods after showers/baths/cooking.
Even in our modern, well insulated house, we found we had damp problems, resolved by improving ventilation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2022 12:37:29 GMT
You're not wrong, there was no extractor in our shower room when we moved in here, and shortly after decorating the place we started to see black mould in that room. We installed a good extractor and the problem hasn't come back.
All our rads have valves with manual, analogue 1-5 settings, rather than specific temp settings. I just leave them all on full when the heating's on because we use every room every day. I just set the house thermostat (in the main downstairs hallway) and then turn it back down again when someone else turns it up without my knowledge...
My heating system really does need a good overhaul, boiler and rads, but I can't really afford it sadly.
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Post by EspadaIII on Sept 13, 2022 13:16:10 GMT
If nothing else a good flush of the system to remove sludge would be a cheap and effective way to improve efficiency.
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Post by dixinormus on Sept 17, 2022 1:34:01 GMT
You referring to HM Government again Esp?! 😂
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Post by WDB on Oct 12, 2022 6:17:35 GMT
Haven’t bought fuel in a while but noticed yesterday that the diesel in town is back from £1.85 to £2 a litre. I presume this is a feed-through effect of the pound’s collapse against the dollar. We could call it the Kwarteng Premium.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2022 8:04:40 GMT
That's odd, I'm still seeing 1.59 petrol and 1.75 diesel here. Been buying a bit of petrol lately due to running around the country to Open Days. Was dearer up in Norfolk than here, I paid 1.65 for unleaded filling up on the way back. Delightful service station on the A11 with chickens running around it. Ah, Norfolk, never change.
Will be filling up for the half term drive to Scotland soon.
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Post by Humph on Oct 12, 2022 8:21:16 GMT
£1.79 is typical for diesel around here at present. I just don’t think about it anymore to be honest, it is what it is, like tomatoes really. If you want some then you just have to pay whatever the going rate is.
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Post by bpg on Oct 12, 2022 8:36:58 GMT
Exactly Humph, it's not as though we can just dig some up in the garden and throw it in the tank. You have to pay what you have to pay at the time.
We can partly thank the mathematical genius in Downing Street though I think OPEC+ cutting 2m barrels/day when demand goes up will lift the market price.
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Post by Humph on Oct 12, 2022 8:49:27 GMT
Showing my age here, but I can remember brimming a Mk1 Cavalier for just over £6.00 and, quaintly enough, writing a cheque for that amount with my fountain pen to cover it.
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Post by bpg on Oct 12, 2022 8:57:40 GMT
I remember paying 28.93cents/kWh on a public fast charger (Shell). It was October last year. Local Shell station is now charging (correction) 64.9
Edit: local Aldi used to be free now 49c/kWh
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Post by Humph on Oct 12, 2022 9:29:14 GMT
Ok so I’ve fallen into a stats trap now, here’s a thing, my Mk1 Cavalier was a 1600 manual, it weighed 980kg, 75bhp, did 30mpg, 0-60 in 13s, and topped out at 100mph.
My son’s Aygo weighs 860kg, has a 1.0 engine, 0-60 in 14s, 70bhp, top speed of 99mph and gets 60mpg.
Well, I thought that was interesting anyway…
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Post by WDB on Oct 12, 2022 9:41:35 GMT
Yes, I've been struck by the parallels between the Aygo and my 1989 Escort 1.3. That had 63bhp and weighed 830kg empty and got about 42mpg in my use. (0-60 was best thought of as 'eventually'; no idea what the true time was, but I could have had a 1.1 engine if I'd been in even less of a hurry.) But it also had room for four people with eight functioning legs, and some shopping at the same time. Whether they would have got out in as good a state as Humphlet did after a similar altercation with a wall, on the other hand...
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Post by bpg on Oct 12, 2022 9:45:05 GMT
That fuel consumption from your Cavalier is slightly under what I got from my Focus - 31mpg - when we were over in the UK in July.
The Focus was at or near its max kerbweight, at around two tonnes, and had a roofbox.
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Post by EspadaIII on Oct 12, 2022 13:43:05 GMT
What's fuel economy??  Seriously though, the i10 I am currently renting is getting 40mpg overall including some motorway, lots of standing or slow traffic and journeys up and down steep hills. It is totally and utterly plagued by its awful gearbox which is never in the right gear and the ratios are woeful. |
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