kermit_rr said:
i've smart TRVs in key rooms, so any one can call heat from the boiler, so i can keep the living room on low during the day while i'm working in the office etc, previously if i wanted heat in the office, i had to turn the main room thermostat up
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I can see the attraction of playing with all this but TBH I don't think it makes that much difference on your heating bill, the colder rooms will draw heat in through the internal walls to a certain extent and the doors deffo will unless you have them totally insulated and draft excluded. I wish they didn't as then our wine room would be a lot cooler than it is although it definitely is cooler than the rest of the house purely through having the rad permanently off and the door shut.
I think all this stuff will work better in an old house which had brick internal walls and rubbish insulation in the outer ones, like my old place. Our present place is so well insulated that there is not a lot we can do to change things. We run the main stat as low as we can bear and wear more layers. But even that doesn't seem to change much. Our main stat is in the downstairs hall. In both the main lounge and the master bedroom we have two rads, the smaller of which in each case is off all the time. So downstairs we only have one other rad on, in the kitchen so not in the dining room, which we aren't using or in the study.
Upstairs we only put the ones in the bathrooms on in the mornings and the other three bedrooms have their rads off and their doors shut. If we want a shower during the day or the evening we put the rad on up there a little bit before hand just as we turn up the hot water stat, give them an hour and off we go!
Each to their own.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I can see the attraction of playing with all this but TBH I don't think it makes that much difference on your heating bill, the colder rooms will draw heat in through the internal walls to a certain extent and the doors deffo will unless you have them totally insulated and draft excluded. I wish they didn't as then our wine room would be a lot cooler than it is although it definitely is cooler than the rest of the house purely through having the rad permanently off and the door shut.
I think all this stuff will work better in an old house which had brick internal walls and rubbish insulation in the outer ones, like my old place. Our present place is so well insulated that there is not a lot we can do to change things. We run the main stat as low as we can bear and wear more layers. But even that doesn't seem to change much. Our main stat is in the downstairs hall. In both the main lounge and the master bedroom we have two rads, the smaller of which in each case is off all the time. So downstairs we only have one other rad on, in the kitchen so not in the dining room, which we aren't using or in the study.
Upstairs we only put the ones in the bathrooms on in the mornings and the other three bedrooms have their rads off and their doors shut. If we want a shower during the day or the evening we put the rad on up there a little bit before hand just as we turn up the hot water stat, give them an hour and off we go!
Each to their own.
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yeh but no but agree.. but.. :D this is an 1980s really cold house, it would be a real faff to go round turning valves thru the day but like you say its what works for you and whats useful :)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I can see the attraction of playing with all this but TBH I don't think it makes that much difference on your heating bill, the colder rooms will draw heat in through the internal walls to a certain extent and the doors deffo will unless you have them totally insulated and draft excluded. I wish they didn't as then our wine room would be a lot cooler than it is although it definitely is cooler than the rest of the house purely through having the rad permanently off and the door shut.
I think all this stuff will work better in an old house which had brick internal walls and rubbish insulation in the outer ones, like my old place. Our present place is so well insulated that there is not a lot we can do to change things. We run the main stat as low as we can bear and wear more layers. But even that doesn't seem to change much. Our main stat is in the downstairs hall. In both the main lounge and the master bedroom we have two rads, the smaller of which in each case is off all the time. So downstairs we only have one other rad on, in the kitchen so not in the dining room, which we aren't using or in the study.
Upstairs we only put the ones in the bathrooms on in the mornings and the other three bedrooms have their rads off and their doors shut. If we want a shower during the day or the evening we put the rad on up there a little bit before hand just as we turn up the hot water stat, give them an hour and off we go!
Each to their own.
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I have only one "Zone" and one main "Stat". The stat is a portable wireless one that I can take to any room. My thinking (skewed though it may be) was that with individual TRV's in each room that cap the max that room can get to all I need to do is take the wireless stat to the area of the house I really want "up to temp" because all of them will self-regulate. So I walk the stat up to the bedroom late in the evening to ensure it is heated to the temp set on the TRV up there. :)
 
DanClarke said:
I have only one "Zone" and one main "Stat". The stat is a portable wireless one that I can take to any room. My thinking (skewed though it may be) was that with individual TRV's in each room that cap the max that room can get to all I need to do is take the wireless stat to the area of the house I really want "up to temp" because all of them will self-regulate. So I walk the stat up to the bedroom late in the evening to ensure it is heated to the temp set on the TRV up there. :)
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that sounds a good compromise :)
 
I've got less than half an hour in which to get changed into working clothes, go outside, jack W's car up, fiddle around trying to find what is making the noise then get it all back off the jack etc, tools away, changed back into decent clothes before trying to beat the traffic and get to pick her up without leaving her waiting in the cold.
Wuff it?
Don't fink so.
Fink I'll just have a quick look at any undertrays and bounce up and down on each corner. Still haven't finished my lunchtime tea!:rolleyes:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
technically her car now has no MOT as it failed although it still had till the end of the month to run. :rolleyes::mad: "A grey area" I have been told.
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I hold the view that it is ok to take it to and from places of repair and to get it MOT'd. If it has failed an MOT your insurance company is not likely to entertain any claims. Plod will likely do you if it failed on a safety related item and you are driving it.
 
Colthebrummie said:
I thinks why they gave them to us, we must of looked constipated. The dinner lady nazi would count the stones when you returned the.empty bowl to make sure you hadnt gotten rid of them somehow. They universally hated.

Col
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That's funny. I actooly like them. Maybe they served you cheapo ones. But then I din't mind them at school neeva.
Mind you my ma was a rubbish cook so you got used to eating it. :rolleyes:
 
kermit_rr said:
yeh but no but agree.. but.. :D this is an 1980s really cold house, it would be a real faff to go round turning valves thru the day but like you say its what works for you and whats useful :)
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Interesting that our house is also a 1980s one. But as I said built by Swedes, timber frame and massive amount of insulation. If I take a floor board up the wood around it says "Made in Sweden " on it. It was a demo house and the Swedes built it to show the Brits how to put em together. Rest were built by Crest Homes.
Were they not into cavity wall insulation on yours then?:(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Interesting that our house is also a 1980s one. But as I said built by Swedes, timber frame and massive amount of insulation. If I take a floor board up the wood around it says "Made in Sweden " on it. It was a demo house and the Swedes built it to show the Brits how to put em together. Rest were built by Crest Homes.
Were they not into cavity wall insulation on yours then?:(
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this one was built by 'tommo' or 'bazz the lad' o_O
 
Wimblowdriver said:
I hold the view that it is ok to take it to and from places of repair and to get it MOT'd. If it has failed an MOT your insurance company is not likely to entertain any claims. Plod will likely do you if it failed on a safety related item and you are driving it.
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This is what I is doing, altho failed on high O2 isn't safety related and there was nowt else wrong no advisories even.
 
Wimblowdriver said:
Twas prunes with custard at my skool. Everybodies favourite pud was cornflake pie with custard. Cornflakes soaked in syrup and baked in a tart, dunno if it was on the menu outside of Durham county.
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Yes we had that, lovely. We also had a pud we called concrete, it was brown and incredibly hard. Nowadays they would make you wear a hard hat and safety goggles to tackle it. It was common to bend spoons trying to dig into it, when the spoon did manage to penetrate it, it would shatter and bits would fly everywhere.

Col
 
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