People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
Aug 6th 2012, 9:09 am
#46
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
We are based in WA & hate it. We cannot wait to go back to the UK.
On the note of houses, we have noticed that virtually no houses here have insulation, double glazing or heating. This means houses are either could and draughty or baking hot.
My husband is sitting on an environmental panel advising companies how to reduce noise, environmental waste, heat etc etc, he is met with continual 'Oh we don't do it like that here...we've always done it this way so we'll continue to do it like that'. Talk about anti-progressive. It's like living in the 1970's with an anti-challenge culture.
On the note of houses, we have noticed that virtually no houses here have insulation, double glazing or heating. This means houses are either could and draughty or baking hot.
My husband is sitting on an environmental panel advising companies how to reduce noise, environmental waste, heat etc etc, he is met with continual 'Oh we don't do it like that here...we've always done it this way so we'll continue to do it like that'. Talk about anti-progressive. It's like living in the 1970's with an anti-challenge culture.
Aug 6th 2012, 9:13 am
#47
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
The worlds biggest Geology conference! That's what!
Aug 6th 2012, 1:31 pm
#48
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
We are based in WA & hate it. We cannot wait to go back to the UK.
On the note of houses, we have noticed that virtually no houses here have insulation, double glazing or heating. This means houses are either could and draughty or baking hot.
My husband is sitting on an environmental panel advising companies how to reduce noise, environmental waste, heat etc etc, he is met with continual 'Oh we don't do it like that here...we've always done it this way so we'll continue to do it like that'. Talk about anti-progressive. It's like living in the 1970's with an anti-challenge culture.
On the note of houses, we have noticed that virtually no houses here have insulation, double glazing or heating. This means houses are either could and draughty or baking hot.
My husband is sitting on an environmental panel advising companies how to reduce noise, environmental waste, heat etc etc, he is met with continual 'Oh we don't do it like that here...we've always done it this way so we'll continue to do it like that'. Talk about anti-progressive. It's like living in the 1970's with an anti-challenge culture.
In your other post you mention your kids hating it and I asked then how the parents felt...now I know. Maybe your current location and social life is not ideal, is there any options to move and try other parts of this huge continent?
Aug 7th 2012, 12:14 pm
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
So we have a car and a holiday let in colundera or wherever it is the mrs has found. Great fish and chip shop run by Indians on the front and a super market flogging dry wors just around the corner It Just gets better by the minute. What is there to dislike ?
Aug 7th 2012, 12:21 pm
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
Never really understood what Australians have against temperature modification in houses. The places we have looked at with no heating or cooling staggers me when we're talking about a range of temps from 0 - 45.
I suppose back before they started playing silly buggers with the economy houses were well-built with thick walls which kept the houses warm in winter and cool in summer. Now they're just cardboard boxes so the temps really get inside.
I suppose back before they started playing silly buggers with the economy houses were well-built with thick walls which kept the houses warm in winter and cool in summer. Now they're just cardboard boxes so the temps really get inside.
Aug 8th 2012, 11:13 am
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
Double Glazing is definitely set to take off here. I've put a fair amount of my renovation budget into insulation and not that happy with the end result now that we've been through a Winter. I anticipated being able to use a 3.5 kwh invertor reverse cycle heater for 20 mins and that heat maintaining for a major part of the evening... It did heat up well, however the heat escaped somewhere and I'm not sure where, as everything is insulated. On the poistive side, I am able to heat my whole 23 square house with 9Kwh of Reverse Cycle invertor Air conditioning, which only uses 3kwh of power at max. It's just that the heat is escaping faster than I would have thought.
We use ours occasionally to warm the house if we have been out and the fire has gone out. Yes, it does warm, but it would be depressing if it was all we had. The warmth from a real fire is so much (subjectively) better.
One day we will probably put in double-glazing. There - I've said it.
Aug 8th 2012, 11:24 am
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
My house was built in the 1980s and it has insulation.
Ozzie - whatever people say about the 'efficiency' of reverse cycle I ain't convinced it is the best.
We use ours occasionally to warm the house if we have been out and the fire has gone out. Yes, it does warm, but it would be depressing if it was all we had. The warmth from a real fire is so much (subjectively) better.
One day we will probably put in double-glazing. There - I've said it.
Ozzie - whatever people say about the 'efficiency' of reverse cycle I ain't convinced it is the best.
We use ours occasionally to warm the house if we have been out and the fire has gone out. Yes, it does warm, but it would be depressing if it was all we had. The warmth from a real fire is so much (subjectively) better.
One day we will probably put in double-glazing. There - I've said it.
Aug 8th 2012, 12:46 pm
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Re: People from the UK ,how you finding it here??
Right now, I'm not bothered.
