Ouch, you can keep that! Hit me up if you're ever near Melbourne; we'll take you for a walk through Sherbrooke Forest; if you're here at this time of year, you enjoy cold mornings, and you're very lucky - you may even get to hear a lyrebird song - imitating every other native bird in the forest! ๐
passthepotato
joined 1 year ago
I feel you! We cut most discretionary during Feb 2020 and haven't ramped it back since. We grew accustomed to the emergency lifestyle. Compared to your system, we forego the bottle in favour of 1hr electric blanket to preheat the bed, and set the heater at 14deg. Electric blankets are actually incredible value - we have a power meter (plugs inline with an appliance), and measured each side of the blanket to consume $0.007c (round up to 1 cent) per hour at its lowest setting (at 17c per kwh, our previous contracted rate).
That reminds me, I really need to make consumption labels for our appliances - I've taken all the measurements, but they're still just scrawled on a notebook.
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Nice! Contribute literally anything, it all helps. 10 year reddit lurker here, also making an effort to bring something to the table. Until it gets busy. Then I'll fade into the background again :)
Ahh yes, we also suffer from a lack of insulation. Empty ceiling and walls. The 50s was a pretty relaxed era for Australian housing.
And I can only assume, at this point, you are also about to lose a wife?
I'm afraid I don't know anyone that can help you with that.
Hahaha not sure where you are exactly, but my memory of Houston and Corpus Christi involves using my arms to swim through the air - the heat and humidity was suffocating; the air was so thick! Sunglasses fogging up instantly when you step outside from an air-conditioned room.
We regularly see 110F here Down Under in our south, but it's a dry heat. You can at least spend the day outside getting stuff done.
It's been about ten years, give or take. Thank you and fuck you for breaking my streak.
Edit: welcome ๐
Some things are just worth dying for ๐
Interesting idea, banking some heat ahead of a storm. We regularly lose power here, but not for any significant length of time (minutes, not hours or days)
I think we would have to set fire to our curtains to sustain 23C in here... that's crazy talk! Y'all run around in socks and underpants? lol
I like this one. Posted instance mentions were doing my head in as a newbie.