The chill factor

[CatherineB]

Advice from NHS Cambridgeshire in our quarterly "Your Cambridgeshire" magazine:

"LOOK AFTER YOURSELF THIS WINTER...

Some useful tips include:
- Keep your home warm. Keep the main rooms you use during the day at a minimum of 21C (70F) and your bedroom at a minimum of 18C (65F) at night when you're asleep. You can also use a hot-water bottle or electric blanket (but not both at the same time) to keep warm while you're in bed."

21C ? :shock:

18 at night ? :shock:

Electric blanket on all night ? :shock: :shock: :shock:

All this in a day and age when we're being exhorted to turn everything down a degree to save energy.

Still, I thought it might help to impart the above wisdom to my fellow PPUKers. If your nipples are chafing and your windows are frozen on the inside, it's simply just because you haven't turned the heating up high enough!!

 

[Flyfisher]

Arrghh! It took me all weekend to clear my mental image of Joce warming herself by the fire, and now you've gone and started it off again.




Thank you so much. :wink:

 

[Penners]

Advice from NHS Cambridgeshire in our quarterly "Your Cambridgeshire" magazine:

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF THIS WINTER...

Well, what a wonderful idea!

Where would we all have been without it?


:roll:

 

[jocelyn plummer]

70f seems terribly hot to me, whatever happened to the magic 60---thought that is the recommended temperature.

 

[Tom]

18 at night???!!! :shock: I'd be dead from heat exhaustion by the morning! :roll:

 

[FamilyWiggs]

If it's any help:-

6ft ≈ 183cm
3ft 6in ≈ 107cm

Well, that depends on how accurate you want to be... :roll:

 

[Moo]

That's accurate enough for me!

We're nearly there, and once we've made one more trip to Mr Plastic to have a couple of cms trimmed off the top pane (yes - in spite of all our efforts we've managed to get something very wrong indeed) the job will be done. We should be really toasty warm by lunchtime.

 

[MdB]

If it's any help:-

6ft ≈ 183cm
3ft 6in ≈ 107cm

Well, that depends on how accurate you want to be... :roll:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=6+ft+in+cm
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=3+ft+%2B+6+in+in+cm

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Thankyou MdB.

Sometimes I find Penners' slip-shop lack of attention to detail somewhat irksome. :wink:

 

[LadyArowana]

Thankyou MdB.

Sometimes I find Penners' slip-shop lack of attention to detail somewhat irksome. :wink:

Don't be too harsh with him, he suffers with his back you know, just sitting at the keyboard takes it's toll but he gives unstintingly of his wisdom and never complains.

 

[MdB]

I must admit I was impressed that he bothered to find the ≈ symbol rather than just use the ~ symbol off the keyboard. It is good to see he will sometimes go the extra mile just for us (even with the iffy back).

 

[Penners]

If it's any help:-

6ft ≈ 183cm
3ft 6in ≈ 107cm

Well, that depends on how accurate you want to be...

I believe that the correct method for a measurement such as this is to be sufficiently accurate for the job in hand, and for the supplier who is cutting the material. However, I also believe in making clear the fact that the measurements are close approximations by using the "approximately equals" symbol.

 

[Penners]

I've always understood that one sleeps better in a chilly room, with plenty of cosy bedclothes.

The worst offenders for overheated bedrooms are, in my experience, hotels. We recently stayed in a nice hotel in Berkshire. It was very comfortable, but the heating at night was absolutely overpowering. It made sleep virtually impossible and there was no way of turning it down.

So much for the earth's natural resources...

 

[FamilyWiggs]

I also believe in making clear the fact that the measurements are close approximations by using the "approximately equals" symbol.

Which looks like this:

≈

and not like this:

= as in dear Mr P's post.

[image = "really really big smug smiley.gif" ]

 

[MdB]

Get your glasses out FW.

Penners had used ≈
(and he hasn't gone back to edit his post)

Cue embarrassment smiley from FW and extremely big headed smiley from Penners.

 

[biffvernon]

I've always understood that one sleeps better in a chilly room, with plenty of cosy bedclothes.

I suppose that explains the lack of plaster in your bedroom:

 

[Flyfisher]

I've always understood that one sleeps better in a chilly room, with plenty of cosy bedclothes.

That's certainly my experience.

The worst offenders for overheated bedrooms are, in my experience, hotels.

That's also my experience. Fortunately, I'm blessed with the ability to sleep through all manner of aural disturbances, so requesting a room off the ground floor and opening the window usually works for me.

 

[Moo]

John has been despatched to Mr Plastics with a request that they trim a strip from one side of the top pane, and quite a sizeable chunk from the bottom of it. Then it's just a question of tacking in the little clip things in place and the window will be airtight.

Having reached the pinnacle of our steep learning curve we're so encouraged that he's going to come back with two sheets for the kitchen window and a small bit for the glass panel in the back door.

So my advice to Joce is Have A Go. The only difficult bit is getting the template right, so it'd be worth while investing in a couple of large sheets of rigid card and really taking your time to get that first stage right. Fixing it in place is an absolute doddle.

 

[Penners]

Get your glasses out FW.

Penners had used ≈
(and he hasn't gone back to edit his post)

Cue embarrassment smiley from FW and extremely big headed smiley from Penners.

Oh no, I should HATE to embarrass poor old FW. He has enough to contend with already.

 

[Moo]

Hmm. That looks like a pretty big-headed smilie to me.