in Christchurch
Apr 27th 2007, 2:14 am
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in Christchurch
Hello,
I have been in Christchurch for sometime...love it here although a little chilly today
I have been in Christchurch for sometime...love it here although a little chilly today
Apr 27th 2007, 3:26 am
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Re: in Christchurch
Hello Pommie2000,
It is a bit cold today! And rainy! Altogether a bit like England, but with better scenery!
How long have you lived here, and where abouts do you live?
It is a bit cold today! And rainy! Altogether a bit like England, but with better scenery!
How long have you lived here, and where abouts do you live?
Apr 27th 2007, 5:32 am
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Been working flat out today so can't say I noticed until I came home 
Busy trying to light the really rubbish fire in our rental now to warm our toes!
Busy trying to light the really rubbish fire in our rental now to warm our toes!
Apr 27th 2007, 5:41 am
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I suspect if I look inside the wall cavity there will be nothin but fresh/cold air.
Brrrrrrr
Apr 27th 2007, 6:02 am
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Same here - tis a bit nippy! Luckily I picked up a 3 bar heater from the roadside in summer, repaired it, and it is now doing a great job of keeping our tootsies warm. Just call me pikey 
Gawd knows what winter is going to bring in the way of leccy bills!
Gawd knows what winter is going to bring in the way of leccy bills!
Apr 27th 2007, 6:17 am
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Re: in Christchurch
Apr 27th 2007, 7:32 am
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I had our radiator on today and my big fluffy sox n slippers. Guy coming next week to measure us up for a heat pump....yippee
Apr 27th 2007, 8:24 am
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Apr 27th 2007, 8:31 am
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Nicely done
Them heat pumps is good they is! Got one at work, and had it on for first time today - proper chuck the heat out. And you know what? They don't have elements or anything. Apparently the air is drawn through a succession of tapered tubes that go to titchy tiny size. This makes all them lickle air molecules move around like crazy so creating heat, so all that's needed is the power of the fan to suck it through the tubes.
Clever peeps them heat pump fellows, eh?
Here endeth the first (physics) lesson
Clever peeps them heat pump fellows, eh?
Here endeth the first (physics) lesson
Apr 27th 2007, 8:37 am
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FREEZING today, 
never mind
been here a couple of years from London, all good. have just heard about this place
never mind been here a couple of years from London, all good. have just heard about this place
Apr 27th 2007, 11:31 am
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soooooooo cold here!!
Apr 27th 2007, 2:35 pm
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I suspect if I look inside the wall cavity there will be nothin but fresh/cold air.
Brrrrrrr[/QUOTE]
The rental we had in CHCH had no insulation at all. I looked through a gap in the kitchen window and there was nothing, shone a torch too and nothing to be seen. If we get back that's one job we will do first with the pink bats.
Brrrrrrr
[/QUOTE]The rental we had in CHCH had no insulation at all. I looked through a gap in the kitchen window and there was nothing, shone a torch too and nothing to be seen. If we get back that's one job we will do first with the pink bats.
Apr 28th 2007, 6:41 am
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Just been shopping for a wood burner burner today, because we live outside Christchurch city and we are on a ten acre block we don't have to buy a clean air approved fire and can go for one that will stay in all night too.
I don't like heat pumps, they seem drafty and give me goose bumps, I also have heard that they don't work very efficiently when the temp is very low outside.
I don't like heat pumps, they seem drafty and give me goose bumps, I also have heard that they don't work very efficiently when the temp is very low outside.
May 1st 2007, 7:32 am
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Just been shopping for a wood burner burner today, because we live outside Christchurch city and we are on a ten acre block we don't have to buy a clean air approved fire and can go for one that will stay in all night too.
I don't like heat pumps, they seem drafty and give me goose bumps, I also have heard that they don't work very efficiently when the temp is very low outside.
I don't like heat pumps, they seem drafty and give me goose bumps, I also have heard that they don't work very efficiently when the temp is very low outside.
If you live on a 10 acre block plant a belt of willow trees. Within 3 - 5 years they'll provide all your energy needs and and you'll eventually be carbon negative within about 5 years.
May 1st 2007, 7:40 am
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You might want to think about becoming carbon neutral. If you're going to run a log burner think about planting a few trees every year.
If you live on a 10 acre block plant a belt of willow trees. Within 3 - 5 years they'll provide all your energy needs and and you'll eventually be carbon negative within about 5 years.
If you live on a 10 acre block plant a belt of willow trees. Within 3 - 5 years they'll provide all your energy needs and and you'll eventually be carbon negative within about 5 years.
Errrm, I think we'll be ok ..... we have 2500 pine trees on our block