19-22 is the normal temperature range for rooms typically.

TMI

We stick our heating at 15 degrees, I dunno how warm the rooms get off that and the insulation etc.

Tempy wrote:

We stick our heating at 15 degrees, I dunno how warm the rooms get off that and the insulation etc.

I do the same for mine, but only in the morning or a bit in the evening, otherwise it's staying off! Luckily I am the liberal metropolitan elite so my thermostat tells me the current temperature as well as the temperature is going to come on at.

i just have one thermostat, but it's a nice digital one that you can set different temps at different times of the day, so there's much less faffing on or risk of leaving the heating on overnight.
so at 10:30pm it sets the temp to a lower 'min' temp for through the night (14-which effectively means heating off unless things get really cold in the house), then shortly before wake up time it turns on and starts warming up to normal temp (20), then (at least pre lockdown) about 9am it sets a lower temp so heating is off most of the day but the house doesn't get too cold, before back to 20 about school home time.
It even has a different weekend schedule to weekdays, and you can override at any time if you need a boost of heating then knock back onto the schedule at a button press.
it's not a hive or something you can control remotely, but it's a lot cheaper too!

Join the club. Took me a week and a half to strip wallpaper and repaint one small room. And I still have to tidy up the edges. D.I.Y. is the most tedious shit.

RamSteelwood wrote:

i just have one thermostat, but it's a nice digital one that you can set different temps at different times of the day, so there's much less faffing on or risk of leaving the heating on overnight. so at 10:30pm it sets the temp to a lower 'min' temp for through the night (14-which effectively means heating off unless things get really cold in the house), then shortly before wake up time it turns on and starts warming up to normal temp (20), then (at least pre lockdown) about 9am it sets a lower temp so heating is off most of the day but the house doesn't get too cold, before back to 20 about school home time. It even has a different weekend schedule to weekdays, and you can override at any time if you need a boost of heating then knock back onto the schedule at a button press. it's not a hive or something you can control remotely, but it's a lot cheaper too!

 

That's what we have. It's portable but we tend to keep it in the hall in the centre of the house. Even when it is off it sets the temp at 6 degrees to prevent pipes freezing.

We’ve been in our house a month and we still haven’t got a washing machine yet. Turns out that lockdowns and Christmas breaks make it hard to get plumbers, joiners, etc to come out – and Brexit makes it even harder to actually buy a washing machine. Who could have predicted, etc, etc.

Luckily, there’s a laundry room in our barn. Rustic, but functional. There’s a gas boiler and an old top-loading washer. Great. Except the boiler doesn’t work. Switch it on and a big red warning light comes on. No hot water is forthcoming. And the washing machine, being old, does require hot water – it doesn’t heat the water itself.

Tonight I thought I’d give it one more try. And in the end I punched the boiler out of frustration.

It worked! I suddenly have hot water in the barn. So now I’ve got a wash on. I’m pretty pleased with myself.

Heyyyyy.

Fair enough. Stock issues all over the world thanks to covid shutdowns, rather than Brexit-related? 

I’ve a pal who runs a kitchens/bathrooms shop and he says he can’t get hold of any washing machines (despite being a main dealer for a couple of European brands). His advice was to order something from AO.com because they have stock already in the UK.

Woohoo! There’s hope.

I’ve not tried anywhere yet, still waiting for a plumber, fitter or designer who is able to visit and confirm what spec of machine we can fit where. Not ordering anything until we’ve specced it properly. And nobody is working/visiting just now under the lockdown rules.

Different circumstances to be fair but it's not as black and white as the rules stating nobody can work in your home.

Scotland must be stricter with the rules. Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, builders all working down here and visiting homes.

Should add the structural guy will be working outside with a mask on, and I'll be inside with a mask on.

I hope this is still allowed, I was wondering the last couple of days.