OMG I am freezing!

Cornelian · Post: # 61919Post **Cornelian** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:15 am

I have had no heating apart from one wood fire (in one room which is barely used) for the past 5 weeks and I am now officially freezing - new system due to go in on Wednesday/Thursday. I am sitting in my office wrapped up in thermals, fleecy everything I can find, beanie and lots of frosty breath. The cold water steams when it comes out the tap. Tasmania is in the grip of the worst winter in 9 years. I have to go to bed at night with more doonas and blankets than a third world country and five plump cats. I ring the heating man and chatter my teeth down the phone to him, but he can't do anything until the scaffolding men arrive (tall as hell chimneys which need to have flues sent down them, which needs scaffolding). Roll on Thursday night when I may finally be warm ...

Who needs old houses.

red · Post: # 61929Post **red** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:40 am

awww - but think how much you are saving the environment by freezing?

hope it gets sorted Thurs!

Jack · Post: # 61938Post **Jack** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:50 am

Gidday

And those buggers up top won't share any of their global warming with us either, Eh!

Millymollymandy · Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:06 pm

What warming Jack? We have had rain, rain and more rain, and June temps have been more like 18-21C instead of the 30C plus they would normally be!

Thomzo · Post: # 61946Post **Thomzo** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:17 pm

Oh Cornelian
I do know how you feel. I always seem to move into houses with no heating in early winter so I can definitely sympathise. Roll on Thursday.

Zoe

ina · Post: # 61970Post **ina** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:31 pm

It's supposed to be summer here, and we are getting temperatures of 12 - 13 degree C. Well, we did have a mild winter and spring, so we can't expect everything. Would be nice if some of the things in the garden grew, though...

Cornelian, don't wear just fleece, wear at least one layer of wool. That's the only thing that really will keep you warm. My house rarely gets above 15 degree in winter (that's with the heating on); I'm used to wearing two woolly jumpers, pairs of socks (plus long Johns etc.).

I lived in a house not too long ago where the winter temperature in the bathroom was usually 7 degree. Now that is fun...

Magpie · Post: # 62005Post **Magpie** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:01 pm

Oh, you have my sympathry! There is nothing worse than being cold - it hurts!!

We have had some decent frosts here, a couple of -7 ones. Our house is warm though, so it makes it much easier to take! And just think of all the insect pests it is dealing to.

Millymollymandy · Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:42 am

ina wrote:Cornelian, don't wear just fleece, wear at least one layer of wool. That's the only thing that really will keep you warm. My house rarely gets above 15 degree in winter (that's with the heating on); I'm used to wearing two woolly jumpers, pairs of socks (plus long Johns etc.). I lived in a house not too long ago where the winter temperature in the bathroom was usually 7 degree. Now that is fun...

I wear all those clothes in winter but (some of) my house is a lot warmer than yours!

As for those bathroom temps, if a bathroom is below 20C I will just stay dirty!

yugogypsy · Post: # 62129Post **yugogypsy** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:13 pm

LOL, I understand. This house only has single pane windows and despite plastic on the inside and out, in winter its terribly cold in here.

And drafty as none of the doors fit, I go around stuffing odd socks in the cracks and I too wear at least 4 layers of clothes.

And that's with the heating set for 22C, it never gets that warm in here though.

I've got a penpal down there living in a Caravan somewhere near Triabanna and she too is complaining of the cold, luckily she has her dog for a hot water bottle.

Went without heat here for 3 days last winter, 1 little electric heater to warm one room.

Thank heavens we got a little woodburner that we got stovepipe for and got going.

The fuel pump on the oil furnace quit, so we just used wood for 2 months until I could afford to get it fixed, so Roll on Thursday, I hope you'll be warm then

Lois

Tigerhair · Post: # 62145Post **Tigerhair** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:41 pm

Tried a hot waterbottle? We HAD to have these growing up as our house had not central heating just fires downstairs (2 floors below)..... They are brilliant!

Cornelian · Post: # 62150Post **Cornelian** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:42 pm

I grew up in a house with no power at all, so, yes, I have heard of hot water bottles.

They're great for night time and if you're sitting down, but not in an office situation where I'm getting up and about every 5 minutes.

Scaffolders forgot to come yesterday. *Long pained silence* So they swear they'll be here first thing so that the heating guy can get to work. We'll see.

Millymollymandy · Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:56 am

Cornelian wrote:I grew up in a house with no power at all, so, yes, I have heard of hot water bottles.

So did I, but it was in Fiji so need for hot water bottles!

ina · Post: # 62182Post **ina** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:35 am

Millymollymandy wrote:As for those bathroom temps, if a bathroom is below 20C I will just stay dirty!

It's not too bad, once you've developed a method: Just strip one small part of the body; wash and dry quickly; cover up. Repeat with next part. At least the immersion heater was working, if slow and inefficient - but any time I had a bath, I couldn't see it for steam!

Jack · Post: # 62190Post **Jack** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:19 am

Gidday

Millymollymandy wrote:
Cornelian wrote:I grew up in a house with no power at all, so, yes, I have heard of hot water bottles.
So did I, but it was in Fiji so need for hot water bottles!

So did I. And the toilet was about 100 yards up a hill out the back too. Our bathroom a an old shack out the back and the water was heated in a copper and bucketed into the bath. What is worse, and I will never forget, is I always had third hand bath water and my older brothers used to tease me by saying how they had peed in the bath.

Even today, I will not wash my face in a bath.

Stonehead · Post: # 62195Post **Stonehead** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:50 am

ina wrote:
Millymollymandy wrote:As for those bathroom temps, if a bathroom is below 20C I will just stay dirty!
It's not too bad, once you've developed a method: Just strip one small part of the body; wash and dry quickly; cover up. Repeat with next part. At least the immersion heater was working, if slow and inefficient - but any time I had a bath, I couldn't see it for steam!

Wimps! Our bathroom gets so cold in winter that the toilet cistern sometimes freezes overnight (we turn the central heating off from about 10pm to 5.30am). It normally makes showering in the morning quite enlivening, but does keep the water consumption down!

But when our boiler broke down the winter before last we had no hot water and no heating for several days, but I refused to give up my showers. So, I'd leap into the shower, wash using very, very cold water alone, and leap out again in a lovely shade of blue. The Other Half refused to follow suit, as did the boys.

The OH did remark that I made rather more noise than usual, though...

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