bathroom radiator
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blackberry444Adrian-next-door's been here today taking out the radiator in the bathroom and installing a heated towel rail. He warned me that the towel rail wouldn't be very hot, but in fact it's so hot I can barely touch it.
We were talking about heating and I was telling him how high our fuel bills are. His are apparently about half the amount we pay by Direct Debit each month and his house is slightly larger. He says that as John is over 65, we may be eligible for some assistance with installing thermostatic radiator valves which I'm anxious to get done, and maybe even insulation board for the attic room ceilings. Apparently it's sometimes possible to get assistance replacing an ordinary combi boiler with a condensing boiler.
Although it's a rule in our house not to have the heating on until 1st. October, now we've actually had it on for Adrian to test the system, I've had to give in and say we can have it on this evening, otherwise I shall be the Bad Guy! I've turned it right down for when it comes on again. We had to have it on maximum while he checked the system and bled the radiators. All the radiators are working much more satisfactorily now. I wonder why it doesn't work like that when we bleed the radiators ourselves?
John is planning to finish the tiling tomorrow and put back things which have become displaced. We only need the door painted and the blind put up and it will finally be Finished!
I'm already planning my candlelit inaugural bath, with fluffy new towels for afterwards, but I need to get some nice smelly candles. Now! How to get some lovely relaxing music in there?
Morgan's been going stir-crazy because I've had to keep him locked up with me so that he couldn't make a complete nuisance of himself and get lost behind the skirting board. About half an hour ago he made a bid for freedom and managed to get out of the back door. I don't really want him out there till he's had his second lot of inoculations on Tuesday and even then Charles and I have agreed that until he's big and clever enough to use the cat-flap he can stay inside. I don't think it will be very long.
I'm feeling very tired today because Morgan kept me awake half the night galloping about, biting my fingers, licking my face (ugh! his breath is terrible!) and using my bag of recycling as a punch bag; then I had to be up and dressed bright and early to let Adrian in.
I thought he was going to bring his daughter to play with Morgan, but she didn't come.
Charles and I are fed up because again there's nothing on TV. We don't want to watch it all day and all night like some people do, but we would like to be able to find something to watch. Half an hour a week of French and Saunders, some of which is old stuff is just not good enough.
I've just remembered that Ugly Betty is starting again this week! Hurrah!
Oh well! I suppose I ought to go down and make the spaghetti bolognese for tonight's dinner.
We were talking about heating and I was telling him how high our fuel bills are. His are apparently about half the amount we pay by Direct Debit each month and his house is slightly larger. He says that as John is over 65, we may be eligible for some assistance with installing thermostatic radiator valves which I'm anxious to get done, and maybe even insulation board for the attic room ceilings. Apparently it's sometimes possible to get assistance replacing an ordinary combi boiler with a condensing boiler.
Although it's a rule in our house not to have the heating on until 1st. October, now we've actually had it on for Adrian to test the system, I've had to give in and say we can have it on this evening, otherwise I shall be the Bad Guy! I've turned it right down for when it comes on again. We had to have it on maximum while he checked the system and bled the radiators. All the radiators are working much more satisfactorily now. I wonder why it doesn't work like that when we bleed the radiators ourselves?
John is planning to finish the tiling tomorrow and put back things which have become displaced. We only need the door painted and the blind put up and it will finally be Finished!
I'm already planning my candlelit inaugural bath, with fluffy new towels for afterwards, but I need to get some nice smelly candles. Now! How to get some lovely relaxing music in there?
Morgan's been going stir-crazy because I've had to keep him locked up with me so that he couldn't make a complete nuisance of himself and get lost behind the skirting board. About half an hour ago he made a bid for freedom and managed to get out of the back door. I don't really want him out there till he's had his second lot of inoculations on Tuesday and even then Charles and I have agreed that until he's big and clever enough to use the cat-flap he can stay inside. I don't think it will be very long.
I'm feeling very tired today because Morgan kept me awake half the night galloping about, biting my fingers, licking my face (ugh! his breath is terrible!) and using my bag of recycling as a punch bag; then I had to be up and dressed bright and early to let Adrian in.
I thought he was going to bring his daughter to play with Morgan, but she didn't come.
Charles and I are fed up because again there's nothing on TV. We don't want to watch it all day and all night like some people do, but we would like to be able to find something to watch. Half an hour a week of French and Saunders, some of which is old stuff is just not good enough.
I've just remembered that Ugly Betty is starting again this week! Hurrah!
Oh well! I suppose I ought to go down and make the spaghetti bolognese for tonight's dinner.
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Date: 2007-09-29 09:29 pm (UTC)Do you have just terrestrial?
If you can get FreeView it's probably worth the new aerial you'd likely need, and the cost of the set-top box. Although since analogue will be switched off fairly soon, maybe not.
Seriously consider, though, FreeSat. OK you have to make a one-off payment to an arm of Murdoch's empire, but it is one-off. The lads turn up and do all the installation, just make sure you know where you want the cable to go before they arrive. You get masses of channels, mostly rubbish, but with various gems often enough to make it worth it. How could you resist the sitcoms on AbuDhabiTV? They may not be supposed to be funny, actually, I don't know since I don't speak the language.
And if by chance you decide you can afford and want some Sky package, the box is already there.
Actually, watch out for the satellite stuff in Lidl and Aldi. You can get it all without paying Murdoch. FreeSat viewing cards are available from a variety of sources (legally!)
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Date: 2007-09-30 07:04 pm (UTC)And very nearly the same price, iirc.
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Date: 2007-10-01 08:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-01 08:13 am (UTC)I don't really think we could afford any Sky except the free stuff. If we could I'd have the Sports Channel so that I could watch the cricket, although we did vow sometime ago never to enrich Mr. Murdoch any further.
I'm really cross now. I've discovered that amongst the hundreds of hours of stuff I don't want to watch, Ugly Betty is on at the same time as Dawn French, and something else I can't now remember. We seem to be unable to video any digital channels. Sigh!
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Date: 2007-10-01 10:35 am (UTC)Re the recording, you must have the SCART set up wrong. Maybe you don't have enough sockets, if any of the gear is getting on a bit. We have 3 SCART cables, so each box (digibox, vcr, tv) can access both the others directly.
When we had just a Sky box, we got the best picture feeding the sky box to the vcr and feeding that to the tv. Now we have Sky+ the quality is the same without the vcr, which for some reason likes to mess up the aspect ratio sometimes, so we generally leave it out. We haven't used the vcr since getting the Sky+ box anyway - the hard drive recorder is more versatile for playback and easier to program for recording. If there's owt we want to keep forever it'll dump to the vcr, but we may buy a dvd recorder...