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I too have a bilingual weather station thingy. This morning it was 65 indoors, 12 outside and 22 at the barn. The coldest it's seen was -7, when we lived in the Beach, I can't imagine how cold it was up here then.

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What are they in new money? :p

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18, -11, -5 1/2, -22.

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Coldest I've seen on mine is -16.5, it also is bilingual, but the transmitter can be switched to F or C and the base translates accordingly...

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One morning the car showed -27.5 but it's jerry built so I didn't believe it.

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Isn't it Mexican?

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We have one that purports to bilingualism, but it's only correct in old money...

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Yes, some place called Puebla.

Puebla, Mexico Apparently they still have red double-decker buses too!
VW New Beetle

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Germans in South America? Former Nazis, one must suppose.

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Doesn't Mexico come into the Central America bracket??

So no hordes of little blond boys building your car.

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Mexico is recognised as a North American country. Central America is the area between Mexico and the South American country of Columbia.

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I think the hordes of little blond boys come after one gets a Beetle.

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Enough homoeroticism. My bilingual thingy is in a right tizzy at the moment. Outside it says 20 and inside it says the same. Do you think I should get a new furnace?

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I reckon you need snow tyres and a block heater.

Should you be tempted to a new furnace I suggest avoiding geothermal.

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Well if there is no minus sign in front of both then consider yourself living in a heat island. :p

Don't take any notice of him at plus twenty you don't need either.;):lol:

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I take it it's chilly today in Calgary?

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Just a bit. -22° C right now.

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Won't help. I think I'll pop out and see if I can find another thingy that speaks Reamur and Kelvin instead. It never gets hot or cold enough for confusion in those languages.

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Inside or out? 'Cos if it's out I'll need the Fahrenheit conversion.

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Outside (conversion -7°F) Sounds positively balmy. :rofl:

Inside 20°C or 68°F

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Balmy? More like barmy.

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Well it wouldn't be the first time I've been accused of being a little of my rocker. :p

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I missed your added remark earlier. Care to expand on your experiences with geothermal?

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The ex contracted to have a geothermal system installed in the middle of December. The hole drilling was subcontracted to a firm that charged $10,000for it but mistakenly sent the bill to her and not the contractor (Tuf-Con? something like that, could find out if it matters), the contractor marked that up to $13,000 on his account. The requirement was four holes in the front garden drilled to some great depth and flushed constantly with water. That volume of water washed away the front garden, depositing mud all over the neighbour's gardens.

Meanwhile the contractor removed the, working, oil furnace and positioned a new one in the wrong place. When it was pointed out that it was in the wrong place he wandered off leaving the house with no heat until, perhaps, the middle of January. What's required is moving the furnace and connecting the holes in the front yard to the furnace. The latter requires digging up the front yard for some sort of exchanger thingy, apparently this can't be done in the cold so I think it very unlikely that they'll have heat for a couple of months yet.

The geothermal system is a whim driven thing, it'll cost about $25,000 + the cost of buying electric heaters and running them for, at least, a month. As a statement of being green it may make sense but compared with keeping the oil system or replacing that with a gas one it will never be cost effective.

Much of this is, of course, the usual saga of difficult customer and cowboy contractor but the cost inefficiency and spectacular mess are features of the technology. Unless one is a Green Party politician, a lottery winner or has divorced well and wishes to flaunt the fact, retro-fitting a geothermal system to an existing house is simply a silly idea.

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A hint of bitterness here? Don't blame you mind.

Thanks for the tale though, not that I was ever thinking about geothermal. As you say, it only makes sense for a new build (preferably in Iceland).

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In truth not. I think I have good cause but can't quite muster the emotion.