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Useful comments - thanks Ivor. Ours is a back-exit stove, set back in the fireplace. I must say that your comment about the fan's effects feeling like a draught is my worry.
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Just to clarify, our stoves also have rear flue exits so perhaps that's why our fans don't create a draft. We're having another installed soon that will probably have a top exit flue so it will be interesting to see if there is a big difference.
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Penners said:
Only a group of boys could think that the solution to being warm and snuggly in the winter is to put a silly little fan on top of a stove. I can almost guarantee that Mrs P will not be warmer, she will not let you run the stove on a lower setting and she will not think it a worthwhile investment :lol:
However, if you get her one of these........ http://www.johnlewis.com/dreamland-16120-relaxwell-faux-fur-heated-throw-white/p1711562 ( other colours available, I chose this to match the pennershound )
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Most thoughtful of you, Yer Ladyship, but I'm afraid the 16-year-old pennershound in question was bid a tearful farewell a couple of months ago.LadyArowana said:
However, she has a successor that we found at a rescue centre, and who has very effectively taken over the role of Boss Of The Household.
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Very sorry to hear that news of your faithful friend. It's good that you gave another lovely companion a forever home.
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As to whether the fan makes a difference, the room with the largest stove used to have a distinct temperature gradient from floor to ceiling, from cool to thermo-nuclear. With the fan in operation the floor is stil cool (but I put that down to all the cold air in the house finding its way to the lowest point) but the gradient is less noticeable; the air feels more dispersed as it finds its way to the door then onwards and upwards.
In the other, larger room, a smaller stove(!), a more convoluted exit path, the fan makes less difference, arguably none, but I still put the fan on the stove when it is lit, otherwise how do I maintain to 'er indoors that they work!
Of course, I may just be trying to justify the purchase of my toys.
In the other, larger room, a smaller stove(!), a more convoluted exit path, the fan makes less difference, arguably none, but I still put the fan on the stove when it is lit, otherwise how do I maintain to 'er indoors that they work!
Of course, I may just be trying to justify the purchase of my toys.
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If you can manage to justify toy purchases, Greg, you're a better man than I am! :wink:Greg.Hobson said:
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Ahem, one word Mr P, "Grandchildren" :wink:
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To be frank, Milady, Greg's purchases sound like man-toys, rather than children-toys.
There is a difference (sometimes... sort of).
There is a difference (sometimes... sort of).
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Grandchildren are wonderful. They justify my purchases of extra Lego 8)
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My oldest grandson is not yet quite old enough to start building model aircraft. I can't wait!
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Shouldn't you be practicing ready for when he is, so he's not disappointed?
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You think I haven't....?? :wink:
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Penners said:
Ditto for the lego . . . . . .
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I'm very disappointed with the Lego company. Lego started life as a wonderful concept - a kit of standard bricks that allowed children to use imagination and dexterity to create pretty well anything from a house to a horse to a train to a spaceship, and so on.
Nowadays, a kit of Lego seems to be simply a box of one-function-only parts that, following a complex set of instructions, you click together into a single franchise toy. Where's the imagination? Where are the endless possibilities?
Nowadays, a kit of Lego seems to be simply a box of one-function-only parts that, following a complex set of instructions, you click together into a single franchise toy. Where's the imagination? Where are the endless possibilities?
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Sometimes you don't want endless possibilities, you just want the toy, and then you find that it doesn't come as a kit or instructions and there really isn't time to go into the shop and take enough pictures to reverse engineer the thing before Christmas :evil:
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Totally agree!
Hence my present quest to purchase quantities of "interesting" parts that will enable us - sorry, him, them - to build fantastic machines and realise interesting concepts. My children participated in my previous attempts to build a complete, working clock solely from lego and remain aware of my undimmed intent to complete this task (but I am somewhat hampered by the gear ratios). My latest idea is to build a geodesic dome playpen for the youngest addition. :roll:
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I entirely agree with Penners' lament about modern Lego packaging, though my experience is that Moo's suggestion comes quite naturally. I confess to being a lifelong Lego fan though my own collection stopped growing soon after the time that the first railway sets were released (the ones with individual rails so the the actual track has to be assembled) and before the 'Technics' parts were released. My collection was consigned to the attic when my parents moved home while I was at uni.
When FF junior arrived, the collection was ceremoniously recovered from the attic and the process of addition was started afresh, beginning with some Technics sets that I had so sadly missed out on. By a happy coincidence, the Mindstorms sets were also released around this time and the collection grew substantially. To keep in it in some semblance of order, the various categories of parts were kept in different plastic containers and became naturally separated from the instruction sheets.
When FF junior went off to uni and we moved home, the collection was consigned to the attic to await the next FF generation. I wonder what new sets will become available before then? Perhaps 3D printing of custom Lego bricks at home?
When FF junior arrived, the collection was ceremoniously recovered from the attic and the process of addition was started afresh, beginning with some Technics sets that I had so sadly missed out on. By a happy coincidence, the Mindstorms sets were also released around this time and the collection grew substantially. To keep in it in some semblance of order, the various categories of parts were kept in different plastic containers and became naturally separated from the instruction sheets.
When FF junior went off to uni and we moved home, the collection was consigned to the attic to await the next FF generation. I wonder what new sets will become available before then? Perhaps 3D printing of custom Lego bricks at home?
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LadyArowana said:Penners said:
Sometimes you don't want endless possibilities, you just want the toy, and then you find that it doesn't come as a kit or instructions and there really isn't time to go into the shop and take enough pictures to reverse engineer the thing before Christmas :evil:
Maybe we all take a small section, build it and send it on to you?