A great idea that didn’t occur to me before. Haven’t had a hot water bottle since I was a child, but, the freezer compartment of our FF is mainly empty always, only a small block of ice cubes for drinks and a small loaf of bread as I buy weekly.
Fran has to have a perfusion each day to drip water into a vein or under the skin and the small poches are discarded as rubbish by the nurses.
Just had a look at one and I think it won’t work, they are factory filled and sealed, no obvious way of refilling with water and re-sealing. Time for more perhaps.
@Toovey27 Our air to airs are Mitsubishis supplied by a firm in Limoges. Just 2 of them heats our small one level house in winter and, when required, cools it in extreme summer. The cost of all electrical appliances including them averages €30 a week in winter. Without them in summer it would be around €11, but Fran’s need for an oxygen machine and cooled air this last couple of days has skewed the summer cost to nearer the winter mark. Today the temp inside is a comparatively comfortable 29C and I haven’t found the need to switch the climas on. This is because I have all windows and doors open but shaded from the sun (in her bedroom which faces south, the windows are open and the heavy curtain is attached at the bottom whith heavy duty clips to the bars of her medical bed. This allows cooling breezes in but excludes completely the heat of the sun.
As the air outside becomes just too hot for this method I will then close everything and put the climas on, or at least the one that services her half of the house.
My split invertor system is also Fujitsu Atlantic and am very pleased with the system, the not expensive running cost and its not noisy. I did have oneproblem recently in that I was getting drips on the floor underneath the unit by the bathroom but the electrician said it was because the evacuation pipe was probably too long and was dragging on the earth in the sous vide which would cause it to block from the dust blowing under there. He told us to go under the house and cut the tubing shorter which is not very big with scissors up into it from the ground and it has worked immediately, no more drips. Apparently they leave them long to be cut down if necessary as you can’t stick more on to make it longer!
Also despite these high tempetatures, who is still paying to heat their hot water cylinder?
If the heat you are discarding to outside from cooling your building was collected and used to heat your water tank?
We have had this with our split, it is usually caused by the humidity in the room or house circulation collecting on the cooling element. Make sure all windows and doors are closed and it should go away. I checked the pipe and it was short so it wasnt that. Seems you might have caught up with it.
Yes I keep all doors and windows shut when its on. The electrician said it was a common problem when installing sous vide rather than through the wall.
Just read the fearmongering PR from the skycool folks. Wildfires in Birmingham UK ?, average sumer temp in Siberia is 24 C down to 13 at night and not as they quote. The average temp in the middle east in summer is regularly 48 + and has been for decades. Sorry but this is BS. Just more crap to hang on the roof of ones house.
AC units using 22% of the UK electricity?? that means there isnt much left for the leccy gokarts and cooking, lighting etc. What is the cost of this all. If anyone believes the PR then good for them. I dont.
UK is about 24 to 25 sweaty degrees right now, with quite a bit of rain over the last couple of weeks. If there are fires in Birmingham it’s not caused by secheresse.
But AM, you wont read anything or watch anything but will believe instantly what Rocam writes although they are the most negative anti progress person. We do not reach endpoints with any new development but we take more steps forward towards better outcomes.
When I was a teenager, we used to get wildfires on Dartmoor and Exmoor… caused by stupid folk leaving trash/bottles in the open sun…
that sort of stupidity possibly/probably continues… wherever…
Also on windowsills where they can act as a lens which given the right situation focus’s a beam to the point where burning can take place. This happened in a new build development near Gatwick where I frequently worked.
I think we need a nice bit of thread drift … there’s a delicious sounding lemon-posset recipe I’m keen to try… when the heat drops enough for me to consider lighting the gas…
perhaps.
