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Central heating is out, emergency repair guy called, the best time of year to need a £48 an hour repair job
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Dec 12, 2022 11:13
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There's this one weird trick involving tealights and plant pots that Big Heating doesn't want you to know... This is my first winter in a detached house as opposed to a maisonette and I didn't realise how cold it would be downstairs regardless of what the heating is set to.
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Dec 12, 2022 11:18
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forkboy84 posted:Central heating is out, emergency repair guy called, the best time of year to need a £48 an hour repair job My boilers been on a work-to-rule type thing for the last week where it heats up the house "a little" and then cuts out. My plumber has similarly been unable to get here until (hopefully) today, I guess it's the busy season. I miss being snuggly
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Dec 12, 2022 11:26
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Check the pressure gauge if it works for a bit then shuts off. If it's low you need to open the tap and fill it up (and there's probably a leak somewhere).
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Dec 12, 2022 11:31
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keep punching joe posted:Check the pressure gauge if it works for a bit then shuts off. If it's low you need to open the tap and fill it up (and there's probably a leak somewhere). My pressure dropped last year after about 2 weeks of not being home during the winter and there isn't a leak as far as I know. Just needed topping up and it was fine. If the pressure KEEPS dropping, then yeah probably a leak.
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Dec 12, 2022 11:32
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keep punching joe posted:Check the pressure gauge if it works for a bit then shuts off. If it's low you need to open the tap and fill it up (and there's probably a leak somewhere). Yeah I pretty much know what the issue is. Used to have to top it up regularly because of a slow leak in the pressure relief valve, then plumber messed with it so now when it heats up the pressure jumps to 3bar and shuts off. So either the pressure valve or the expansion vessel needs replacing. Debatable how much of this is old boiler vs iatrogenic
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Dec 12, 2022 11:37
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https://twitter.com/can_cagzimm/status/1602061976129110016 https://twitter.com/anna_damski/status/1602073845556514818 [/quote] We got trapped in this last night - instead of 2.5hrs from the Chunnel to home it was 6.5, three of which were spent stationary and the rest was doing no more than 40mph through unploughed snow and slush. We were coming back from a weekend in France, and I had a rant all prepared about how stark the difference is now going from the UK to continental Europe - our destination was a city broadly equivalent to our home town in the UK (dunno why I'm being so cagey - we went to Metz) and it was genuinely shocking to wander around and realise "Oh yeah, this is what a first-world country without crippling regional inequality and an amoral political system is like...look, there's a person sweeping the street, and here's an open library...and a post office bank...look at this covered market that's not just vape stalls, American candy stands and phone repair booths...huh, a multimodal transport system run by the municipal government with a flat charge of €1.50 per trip anywhere in the city...what unworkable fantasy is this?" France is not a utopia, and certainly not a progressive utopia, and has all sorts of social, political, ethical etc. issues to grapple with. But it does pass the test of "functional nation-state" which I increasingly doubt the UK does for most of us. And slamming straight off the Eurotunnel into a four-hour traffic jam caused by; a) a shortage of ploughs to keep the nation's busiest motorway around its capital city free of four inches of snow b) the inability of one in every three people to not be selfish pricks and not try to drive through that snow at 70mph before crashing and blocking the one passable lane really just brought that home.
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Dec 12, 2022 11:41
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https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1602235552144695296
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Dec 12, 2022 11:43
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BalloonFish posted:
Yeah but we name our gritters cute names like Gritty McGritface & Sweet Child O'Brine (the latter is currently in Forfar) & Gonnae Snow Do That
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Dec 12, 2022 11:53
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learnincurve posted:It was my local council that once forgot to order grit, couldn’t find any for sale anywhere so used table salt in the gritters instead. I might need to salt my driveway, is table salt no bueno for this?
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Dec 12, 2022 11:53
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I remember when the snowmen would come in your yard to collect the snow in a proper metal bin.
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Dec 12, 2022 11:54
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah but we name our gritters cute names like Gritty McGritface & Sweet Child O'Brine (the latter is currently in Forfar) & Gonnae Snow Do That That's Scotland and I expect your gritter programme is functional as well, this is an England problem
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Dec 12, 2022 12:01
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Guavanaut posted:I remember when the snowmen would come in your yard to collect the snow in a proper metal bin. I thought he burst in through your bedroom window, kidnapped you without adequate clothing and dragged you through the freezing sky to your death.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:05
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Lungboy posted:I might need to salt my driveway, is table salt no bueno for this? Well it depends on what you want From what LC said I think if you want two inches of black ice then yes, it's muy bueno
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Dec 12, 2022 12:07
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You generally want something like calcium chloride mixed with gravel. The magnesium salts they sell as bath flakes would also work mixed with gravel. Washing soda mixed with gravel would probably work in a pinch. The gravel is the bit that stops it just refreezing into slicks though.Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I thought he burst in through your bedroom window, kidnapped you without adequate clothing and dragged you through the freezing sky to your death.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:13
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Yeah, regular salt alone will just melt the snow into water, which will then freeze into pure ice.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:17
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I might need a trip to a local grit bin then.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:21
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Rarity posted:That's Scotland and I expect your gritter programme is functional as well, this is an England problem Wow, I didn't realise England was so deprived of dad jokes
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Dec 12, 2022 12:34
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Lungboy posted:I might need a trip to a local grit bin then. council padlocked the one at the end of my street, fancy squire padlock and all, none of that masterlock bullshit someone smashed the hasps off the plastic and took the lock and the top layer of salt away there's kind of an impermeable salt monolith left that I don't think is removable even after my lad gave it a few kicks
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Dec 12, 2022 12:35
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DesperateDan posted:impermeable salt monolith
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Dec 12, 2022 12:53
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I went to our nearest grit bin and it has a padlock on it now. Those damned youths taking shots of grit in summer ruining it for all us sensible adult folk.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:58
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Mebh posted:I went to our nearest grit bin and it has a padlock on it now. Those damned youths taking shots of grit in summer ruining it for all us sensible adult folk. My folks local grit bin was leaking salt into the ground & killing their hedge so the council had to move it & I've no loving idea where to.
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Dec 12, 2022 13:01
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I can’t remember the last time I saw a wild grit bin
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Dec 12, 2022 13:02
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That's funny, I seem to be saying "well, England doesn't often get snow like this so it's a waste of money to prepare for it properly" every year
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Dec 12, 2022 13:11
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We don't need cheap nuclear power in ten years, I say, every ten years ago, every year. Hello, Mark, yes?
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Dec 12, 2022 13:16
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Everything is frozen solid today and not thawing. There is this fog hanging over.
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Dec 12, 2022 13:21
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Look who else has noticed the country has collapsed into an unworkable shithole lol https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1602073719815512071
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Dec 12, 2022 13:22
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BalloonFish posted:https://twitter.com/can_cagzimm/status/1602061976129110016 Lot of French people in France though. Dead Goon fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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Dec 12, 2022 13:23
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Bristol has a bunch of grit bins all around the city centre. Coincidentally we aren't currently plastered in snow by now makes u think
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Dec 12, 2022 13:27
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If Bristol went ungritted the pileup would make a nice dam on the Avon
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Dec 12, 2022 13:32
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Rarity posted:Bristol has a bunch of grit bins all around the city centre. Coincidentally we aren't currently plastered in snow by now makes u think
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Dec 12, 2022 13:33
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Bristol must be a nightmare.
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Dec 12, 2022 13:36
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This country falls apart at the slightest change in weather from standard dreary drizzle. What a poo poo hole. Has the UK ever worked or has it just been in a downward spiral since the 70s?
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Dec 12, 2022 13:41
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keep punching joe posted:Has the UK ever worked or has it just been in a downward spiral since the 70s? Clearly you don't remember the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony please don't mention the staffing shortages or needing to bring the military in to actually run the games
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Dec 12, 2022 13:48
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mrpwase posted:That's funny, I seem to be saying "well, England doesn't often get snow like this so it's a waste of money to prepare for it properly" every year Only Kindness posted:We don't need cheap nuclear power in ten years, I say, every ten years ago, every year. Hello, Mark, yes? It does make me wonder if our country has ADHD as the entire nation seems to exist on an intention deficit disorder like me trying to water the plants, trim the roses or do anything long term where the rewards aren't immediate. Huh, that's capitalism...
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Dec 12, 2022 13:58
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Why think about long term goals when there is some new very important social panic to get annoyed about.
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Dec 12, 2022 14:02
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It's the penises gerald! some of them might have penises! and they could be in the ladies!!
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Dec 12, 2022 14:03
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blunt posted:Clearly you don't remember the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony please don't mention the staffing shortages or needing to bring the military in to actually run the games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqM0Ube0oLs
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Dec 12, 2022 14:03
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I posted about the PASS (Citizen) card for voter ID on my fb last night. One of my tory-voting friends roughly my age commented that she knew nothing about it (requirement for voter ID) and the comment was basically along the lines that I was making it up  God I hope the tories have shot themselves in the foot with this one (even if it's just old dears peddling up to the polling station without whatever photo ID they might have because they don't realize they need it).
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Dec 12, 2022 14:09
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OwlFancier posted:Why think about long term goals when there is some new very important social panic to get annoyed about. Its all so manufactured. Its got to be a willing agreement to not look at this point. I just hope that by some magic the PLP trip and fall into a well over christmas. It was very depressing listening to Owen Jones this morning while making breakfast going on about how he thinks Burnham being leader would solve many of labour's issues. Are they even competent enough to try to do a tory new leader, new party BS? Even though its the same ghouls running it? Does it matter? I think most left of center will absolutely jump at any chance to return to voting Labour.
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