Big Daddy Dan's Choi Thread

[SimonTemplar]

Originally Posted by Bill C84

Nah mate, there still a bit fragile today, the pain killers has done wonders though.

I don't envy you one bit Simon, mind you its best to get that out of the way ready for winter, when you start using the heating again there should be a noticeable difference in how much gas you use.

Well thank goodness for painkillers.

And yes, I'm hoping it helps - it's a three-storey (hence the shallow lofts), 200 hundred year-old house with solid limestone walls, single-glazed sash windows and the heating runs off LPG plus we have an Aga taking 40l a week before we start. So everything's against us, basically, in terms of fuel bills We had a new boiler and hot water cylinder last year and that has already cut the bills a fair bit, so I'm hoping for a bit more off in return for my unpleasant few hours crawling round in the dark bumping my head and trying not to go through the ceiling.

[unorthodox]

Originally Posted by happydrinks

Did you know that jellyfish are plankton? I think anything that just floats about and goes with the currents are technically planktons.

i didnt know that! ha

hate jellyfish aswell, ugly creations those...

[Primadonna Kool]

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[Vano-Irons]

Originally Posted by Primadonna Kool

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Brit Forum aka The Warriors, fighting for our lives

[Bill C84]

Originally Posted by SimonTemplar

Well thank goodness for painkillers.

And yes, I'm hoping it helps - it's a three-storey (hence the shallow lofts), 200 hundred year-old house with solid limestone walls, single-glazed sash windows and the heating runs off LPG plus we have an Aga taking 40l a week before we start. So everything's against us, basically, in terms of fuel bills We had a new boiler and hot water cylinder last year and that has already cut the bills a fair bit, so I'm hoping for a bit more off in return for my unpleasant few hours crawling round in the dark bumping my head and trying not to go through the ceiling.

Sounds like a nice house, you should notice the difference most of the heat loss in properties is through the roof, also the boiler has less work to do, which is good for the life expectancy of it, was it a pressurised cylinder that was installed?

[DanielJFiasco]

Originally Posted by Primadonna Kool

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Amazing movie. Always makes me want to buy a a leather waistcoat (no homo).

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warriors, come out to play-ayyyy

[Bill C84]

This means war, Im making a stand.

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[Vano-Irons]

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come out to plaaaaaa-aaaaay

[12downfor10]

Originally Posted by Primadonna Kool

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I'm only hoping they just deleted that thread last night and didn't go through it. Not that anybody did anything wrong, just jenna has a notorious lack of a sense of humour.
I'm also dissapointed we lost the teenage wanking stories (no ...erm is homo the right word for this?)

[Scottrf]

Originally Posted by 12downfor10

I'm only hoping they just deleted that thread last night and didn't go through it. Not that anybody did anything wrong, just jenna has a notorious lack of a sense of humour.
I'm also dissapointed we lost the teenage wanking stories (no ...erm is homo the right word for this?)

They never delete, they only move to the mod section.

[12downfor10]

Originally Posted by Scottrf

They never delete, they only move to the mod section.

perhaps it is a new dawn then. Also I'd like to be a Mod purely for porn purposes. What a stash they must have, it'll be like the motherlode

[SimonTemplar]

Originally Posted by Bill C84

Sounds like a nice house, you should notice the difference most of the heat loss in properties is through the roof, also the boiler has less work to do, which is good for the life expectancy of it, was it a pressurised cylinder that was installed?

Thank you, it will be nice when we've finished knocking it about - stone floors going in downstairs this week, noone's touched it since the 1950's so we have a fair few jobs on the list.

Yes, pressurised cylinder as the water pressure's terrible; the cylinder's on the first floor, but we are putting in a couple of small en suites on the second floor, so wanted to give the pressure a bit of an assist. So we put in a very large cylinder and an over-specced boiler (a Worcester Greenstar 30CDi Conventional, since you're presumably up on these things!). All aimed towards, as you say, having the boiler not have to work too hard. I always think of it as being similar to car engines; if you're doing a lot of motorway driving, you can either thrash the nuts of a one litre engine or go for something bigger, halve your revs and save fuel/maintenance. But I'm just an amateur! We're also fitting new rads throughout, but doing it gradually - they're reconditioned old iron ones, in black, very nice but not cheap so we tend to save up and do them as we decorate rooms. We have fitted wooden shutters on a couple of windows, amazing what a difference that makes - the house is listed and in a National Park, so there are some things that they won't let us do.

It does get pretty cold up here; we saw -13C at 5pm on New Year's Eve! The kids thought I was joking when I made them go outside to get in the car...

(Sorry to bore all the non-plumbing Choi members )

[noonan]

I'm home after a morning in the loft, can feel the shit hanging in my chest

[SimonTemplar]

Originally Posted by noonan

I'm home after a morning in the loft, can feel the shit hanging in my chest

Well, congratulations on a job well done, but don't tell me it's tough up there, I have all this ahead of me. Tell me that it was surprisingly straightforward and that being up in the roof leads to access to some surprisingly fresh air.