no hot water

Russian Doll · Sat May 24, 2008 6:19 pm

my thermosat on my tank blew yesterday and can i find a plumber that wont charge the earth this weekend...so i improvised

zachy got bathed in the kitchen sink we he loved....we poured luke warm boiled water down the hose and gave alex a shower

such fun

red · Post: # 105165Post **red** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:25 pm

hope you get it fixed tho...

Dori · Post: # 105201Post **Dori** » Sat May 24, 2008 11:22 pm

Oh dear! Glad you made the best of it, but I do hope it gets fixed soon!
My Boys and I had no heating or hot water at all last winter as our boiler packed up completely, was condemned by engineers, and I had no money to get a new one!

We had candles everywhere in the evening plus blankets to heat us, I did put an electric heater in the boxroom in the morning for us all to get changed in, and we went swimming to the local pool, (so we could shower properly) in the evenings!

Thankfully, it is all restored now!!!
Improvisation is fun for a while, but I do sympathise with you!!!

Russian Doll · Sun May 25, 2008 9:35 am

Dori wrote:Oh dear! Glad you made the best of it, but I do hope it gets fixed soon!
My Boys and I had no heating or hot water at all last winter as our boiler packed up completely, was condemned by engineers, and I had no money to get a new one!
We had candles everywhere in the evening plus blankets to heat us, I did put an electric heater in the boxroom in the morning for us all to get changed in, and we went swimming to the local pool, (so we could shower properly) in the evenings!
Thankfully, it is all restored now!!!
Improvisation is fun for a while, but I do sympathise with you!!!

god i feel for you..it doesnt affect our heating as we have none...but to go that long with no bath would drive me crazy...we should have ours fixed by tuesday

possum · Post: # 105249Post **possum** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:53 am

I sympathise entirely, back in the UK, our combi boiler packed in two days before xmas.
I am so glad now that we have either the logburner or the emersion heater to heat the water.

ina · Post: # 105252Post **ina** » Sun May 25, 2008 9:55 am

possum wrote:I sympathise entirely, back in the UK, our combi boiler packed in two days before xmas.
I am so glad now that we have either the logburner or the emersion heater to heat the water.

Wouldn't it make sense for you to have thermal solar water heating? Makes sense even in Scotland - I suppose you have a little more sun that we do...

possum · Post: # 105262Post **possum** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:35 am

solar heating is expensive and we are never going to run out of free wood anytime soon, we have a shelterbelt of 30metre high pines, double planted as a shelterbelt which is about 500 metres and assorted other trees. We only bother to chop up the thicker branches, anything less than 3 inches is chucked onto a bonfire. We have already had one bonfire lasting a whole day, and I reckon at least another 7 days burning is required to clear the junk wood from the last pruning. And we have loads of more pruning to to.

possum · Post: # 105263Post **possum** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:38 am

Oh not to mention the dozen or so 30m high pines and macrocarpa that are due to be felled shortly. We are going to be trying to sell firewood.

ina · Post: # 105298Post **ina** » Sun May 25, 2008 3:27 pm

I understand your abundance of wood - but burning that still releases carbon... As far as I am aware, you can make very cheap solar water heating systems yourself, basically just with a black radiator left out in the sun! In France I always had hot water in the evenings; the sun had heated up the water in the pipes beautifully. (Still had to boil water for brushing my teeth in the morning, though!)

mrsflibble · Sun May 25, 2008 7:23 pm

oh my god tea!!! that flat is a nightmare!!!

possum · Post: # 105398Post **possum** » Sun May 25, 2008 11:56 pm

ina wrote:I understand your abundance of wood - but burning that still releases carbon...

Burning wood is carbon neutral, in that it only releases the carbon that the tree absorbed whilst growing. As we have planted another couple of hundre trees in place of the once being felled and trimmed, my conscience is clear.

Russian Doll · Mon May 26, 2008 3:26 pm

mrsflibble wrote:oh my god tea!!! that flat is a nightmare!!!

lol that my home your talking about missy

its not that bad now we have the new windows its quite warm...and i wouldnt swap my kitchen for the world

mrsflibble · Tue May 27, 2008 5:44 pm

for everyone else, tea's kitchen is big, and unlike mine it doesnt have a really annoying breakfast bar in the middle of it.

Russian Doll · Tue May 27, 2008 6:47 pm

mrsflibble wrote:for everyone else, tea's kitchen is big, and unlike mine it doesnt have a really annoying breakfast bar in the middle of it.

hey not only big but alkso has 60s cupboards which are massive