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29 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:
Mum's armchair was right next to the radiator, and so did receive its radiant heat.
However as I mentioned most are nowhere near radiators, so radiant heat is a problem. Our radiators are on, if I hold my hand 15 to 20cm away both sides i.e. the one towards the radiator and the one away feel the same temperature. You really do have to be close to get much radiant heat.
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11 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said:
Old people especially need a source of radiant heat to maintain comfort as their bodies are less able to regulate their temperature.
That is going to be a problem with most central heating as those things we call radiators are actually mainly giving heat by convection. Of course they radiate heat but most of the heating of a room is by convection. You need to be very close to a radiator to feel a lot of heat.
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46 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
I would think that your not yet built flat may well be fine?? It will be purpose built with todays equipment taken into account. Probably under floor heating and insulated etc etc. The ones I am talking about are places such as mine built like a tank with thick solid stone walls without a cavity and lovely high ceilings. A local friend of mine is distraught with hers its a 50s built council property and the council stuck ASHP in loads of them. She gets massive and I mean massive bills to remain cold. A local to me house has just had theirs taken out and oil back in. There are one or two others nearby and one, a very recent instalation is far from quiet. I havnt googled but I dont think you can get the radiaters hot enough if you just try to so called update an older system? My rads with oil boiler will burn your hand if I want and remain extremely hot throughout the house and from start up that takes minutes. A friend next street has just had big company out and she is having electric heaters fitted in each room, not ASHP as she was told they wouldnt work without other vast cost. The leccy heaters are not cheap mind. My system was a complete new system I had fitted two years ago, the big busy company told me that ASHP would cost me many thousands more and be far less efficient, they fit all manner of heating systems so I listened. I am very happy with my oil system.
Our last house was built in 1752 and had such walls. The central heating was from a stove. We were away for a fortnight skiing over Christmas and the New Year. A friend went in to light the fire the day before we got back. He said our house was warmer than his more recent build. The thickness of the walls seemed to help delay heat loss.
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5 minutes ago, Ray T said:
Would you like me to delete them?
Not our photos so it isn't my call. Looking at the photos I doubt it would be possible to trace the copyright on some.
The point of my post was to remind people what the situation re copyright is. Remember in some cases, probably not his one, it is somebody's living i.e. income stream that is potentially being weakened.
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50 minutes ago, IanM said:
That has been pointed out before but there's a lot of people on here with the incorrect view that once a picture is on the internet there's nothing the copyright holder can do about it. Ray has often said he believes it's ok as he views it as for personal use.
My professional photographer wife disagrees. The more people do lift pictures the more people are fooled into thinking it is OK.
Personal use does not as far as I know mean publishing it on the net, the advice we have had is it is more for personal study by yourself.
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16 hours ago, Ray T said:
@Sloughwriter Dogs have long been associated with narrowboats.
Often they helped with obtaining "food" for the pot, as well as being guard dogs. Often boat people were unfairly treated by some on the bank. Dogs were a useful deterrent.
Some pictures:
Bill Taylor (left) with his dogs outside "The Two Boats" Stockton.
Scruff on Joe and Rose Skinner's boat "Friendship" at Oxford.
Tim, Eleanor Mitchell's dog on “Lyra.”
One of our dogs, Millie, sadly no longer with us.
Whereas Millie loved being on the boat, our current dog does not!
It is taking time but she is now happier on the boat as long as it isn’t travelling!
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Charlie Collins (10) with dog, 1954.
Please note, I do not hold copyright for any of the B & W photos, they are ones I've found on the web.
I hate to point out lifting them from the internet is breaking copyright.
From the government website:
Photographs, illustrations and other images will generally be protected by copyright as artistic works. This means that a user will usually need the permission of the copyright owner(s) if they want to perform certain acts, such as copying the image or sharing it on the internet.
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12 minutes ago, debbbbs said:
If there was an odour it's because there was a problem.
The new tank we have fitted does not omit any odours. It shouldn't be classed as outdated, when installed and maintained properly the tank will last as long as the boat. Also with the addition of extra access points on every corner we are able to totally flush the whole tank to keep every corner clean.
We have spoken with other boaters who have cassette toilets and regret their decision. I suppose its what your used to and what you like.
I have used portable/cassette toilets in caravans for decades, however, I wouldn't have anything other than a pump out on the boat.
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38 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I keep thinking the title is "Immunity from bible..."
I have to admit I too misread it in just the same way.
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1 minute ago, Captain Pegg said:
I don’t know.I was just considering how I feel when I need to use a mooring say for shopping and can't get moored. If I thought some of the boats had been there 6 weeks I would be, to say the least unhappy.
If the mooring was never full no harm done.
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24 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:
But therein lies the issue. Obviously I thought it was OK in the circumstances but I was still ‘hogging the mooring’ as far as anyone observing would have seen things. In neither case did I absolutely have to leave the boat in the positions I chose either at all and/or for that duration of time.Was the mooring full at any point?
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9 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:
I moored for 41 days on a 7 day mooring during the summer.
I also spent a week or so on a 2 day mooring.
Although I am apparently a ‘proper’ boater. Or perhaps it’s easier to make enemies of stereotypes rather than actual people.
Presumably you had good reason and weren't just hogging the mooring.
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17 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Flowering trees generally make the best firewood.
Which is basically the same as saying hardwoods are better than softwoods.
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Just now, Arthur Marshall said:
If they aint moving, they aint itinerant.
If there are no moorings to move to, then they shouldn't moor - . I can't just stick a house up in London in a spare bit of Hyde Park because I want to live there, so why should I be allowed to permanently stick a boat where it's not supposed to be? There are, after all, plenty of miles of wet where it could legally be.
Forgive my ignorance never having been a CCer but what is to prevent a CCer doing as many leisure boaters bo, mooring away from recognised moorings?
I don't see how there being no official moorings prevents a CCer moving.
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Just now, Alan de Enfield said:
Agreed, but the ditionary I use (Merriam Webster) did not include the bit you highlighted.
True not all dictionaries do. The point I was making is if somebody has been used to society (definitions do tend to vary with local areas and attitudes) using the definition of vagrant that I posted then they will probably pull people up for using it in what they see as being the wrong way.
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37 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
On the other hand, this definition of vagrant would not apply to CCers IMO.
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3 hours ago, mrsmelly said:
Precisely this!! Fish and chips are an essential in helping eat salt and vinigar. First lashings of salt followed by copious quantities of vinigar then lashings more salt!! Had my blood pressure taken at ospital couple of days ago and it was spot on and nothing to do with the bucket of tablets I take each day
One of our daughters is very lucky, she has very low blood pressure so the doctor tells her to eat more salt lol.
My daughter spent 7 years passing out without warning, when being checked for another problem they discussed her diet and said to take more salt. Now she would nearly add salt to rock salt. She hasn't collapsed in the last 10 years.
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3 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I'd also like to know..
The reason for low heat from crap logs is to do with which variety of tree they come from rather than the way they are dried.
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example I am burning hawthorn and some ash today. Both high grade firewoods. It a bag is filled with Cheery and Alder on the other hand the heating effect will be significantly less.
https://www.stovesonline.co.uk/woodburning_chart.html
I would be unsurprised if alder found its way into cheap firewood supplies.
After seeing the statement I did a little googling and came up with this:
Kiln dried firewood will be dried right through, but air-dried logs can have varying water levels. Your kiln dried logs are guaranteed to burn and will be consistently dry. While the cost will be slightly higher than seasoned logs, you can be sure that your logs will light quickly and easily with kiln dried. With a low moisture content (less than 20 percent), your kiln dried wood can produce up to 30% more heat per kilogram, ultimately making the benefits economical.
My bold.
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23 minutes ago, nealeST said:
The stuff they sell in plastic bags in petrol stations here in the UK is rubbish. If it’s been kiln dried the energy has been sucked out if it. It’s purely for effect…not much heat to be had.
Being scientifically challenged can you explain please how kiln drying "sucks energy" out of wood, please.
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19 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Also unusual to have pink flames.
Red is very difficult to portray accurately with some digital cameras in some lighting. I have had many problems with shots of red things getting the colour right.
I have been assuming that that was why the colour was strange.
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9 minutes ago, wakey_wake said:
It's weird how "reduce, re-use, recycle" makes no mention of "just burn the stuff, it save us hauling it to the incinerator".
I suspect it is because commercial incinerators make attempts at cleaning the flue gasses, but domestic burning does not.
As I understand it much of what is currently burned could be reused, recycled, or composted rather than being sent as general waste.
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8 minutes ago, Slim said:
I was going to reply in a similar vein.
The idea of cold houses IMO ranks alongside the gongoozlers who think boats are cold and damp in winter.
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I am 77 and live ashore but I don't sit in a cold brick house wrapped in an electric blanket. I wander all over the house in my shirt sleeves often having to turn the heating down.
The house is well insulated and so keeps nice and snug.
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2 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
I think that may be why the caption is 'not always used as intended'.
It just seemed a lot harder work than using it as it is clearly designed for.
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2 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
I've been known to do like the hi-vis chap if the gate is closed on the Narrow, no hefty battery etc. on my bike so easy as pie, did see a chap copy me once who slipped and dropped his steed in
Is the gap at the left side not capable of letting a bike through? If not what is its purpose?
Thinking about buying a boat
in New to Boating?
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So who is going to give the advice if the questions etc are only read by newbies?