Re: The heating thread

[The Call of the Wendigo]

0.53 units used in the last 24 hours. 0.01 units down on the day before.

Interesting, because peak Wendifield temperature on Saturday was 13 C, and my model would have predicted increased usage.

What time of day do these 24-hour periods you're logging start?

6:30 am.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I still haven't turned my heating on.

Not since I moved in back in May of last year.

[Nightjar]

I'm sitting here typing topless cos I got so hot.

[Nightjar]

[The Call of the Wendigo]

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I have now fitted door sealing tape to the door of my experimental heating room.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It is now impossible for air to get in or out.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

0.65 units used yesterday. Up 0.12 units on two days earlier.

[Guest]

It is now impossible for air to get in or out.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I have found a 100 watt bulb in the bottom of a cardboard box in a cupboard. I have now got it in my Experimental Heat Room and have it on and the heating off, to see how much heat it gives off.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

It gives off plenty.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I'm sat five feet away from it and I can feel its rays hitting my skin.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

I have placed one of my patented foil and corrugated cardboard panels directly behind it to prevent its heat escaping into the wall behind it.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

After I found it, I remembered I have an old 60 watt bulb in the out-house. I was going to bring that in and have that running in conjunction with this one, to see how they felt combined but, when I tested it, it had failed and its filament was making that "sheeeshy" noise that they do when they've burnt out.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Once this one fails, my life will forevermore be denied the joys of incandescent rage lighting.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

In other news, I used exactly 1 unit of gas yesterday, nearly double what I've been using in recent days. I have no idea what caused the massive increase.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

So far, the room still feels perfectly warm.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

After over an hour since I started, the room is still perfectly warm.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

The room heat calculator I tried yesterday said I'd need nearly 900 watts to heat this room. I am currently managing to heat it perfectly well with a 100 watt light bulb.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

That works out at less than 1.5p an hour.

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