MTA
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I hate advances in Domestic technology!What a grand title for a moan about our central heating system! It has packed up for the third time since we moved here just over 5 years ago. It broke during the summer of 2004 and when they fixed it it was permanently on high and it took an age to correct it. Needless to say we never had those plumbers back. In 2006 it had to be fixed again and now it has packed up (hopefully not altogether) and it is bloody freezing. Three layers and a coat on and I'm still freezing  What was wrong with a good old coal fire in the living room? I'd be warm and toasty right now seeing as my room is next to the chimney 
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johnreid
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My Heat Pump quit two years ago and I have been heating with wood ever since. Wood heat is so comfortable, but it is dry and the farther areas of the house get a bit chilly when it is really Cold out. It was below freezing here this morning.
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James
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You want one of these lad!!
The brass on the stove is a bit dull... needs polishing again!
The lamp were just posing there, it don't live there, it follows me around whatever room I'm in!!
It looks all mucky in the pic, it ain't, it's the flash 
It gets so hot we have to open the windows at times, which defeats the object 
The mantle piece is made from a 300 year old piece of Marshalls timber!
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James
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SillyBilly
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Or a proper open fire place, don't need central heating in our house.
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James
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We used to have one of them. The stove is miles better, but don't have the charm of an open fire.
With a stove you have the heat from the fire AND the metal 
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Graham-Jilly
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we have reverse cycle air conditioning just incase it gets cold
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SillyBilly
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| James wrote: | We used to have one of them. The stove is miles better, but don't have the charm of an open fire.
With a stove you have the heat from the fire AND the metal |
We've a stove in the kitchen also, that provides our hot water. Your right, it has no where near the charm of an open fire.
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James
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You mean an arger?
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johnreid
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That Stove cant be all that warm James, your Cat is frozen!
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James
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LMAO!
That's one of mother's Winstanley cats
I wanted me old Bowman down there but she wouldn't let me
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MTA
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My Grandma still has a huge log fire in her living room. She still had lead electrical wiring up until recently  She also had her Rayburn replaced with a modern one which looks like a traditional one from the outside but when you open one of the doors it reveals a control panel
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Cranko
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In NZ you cant get a permit to fit an open fire in a dwelling anymore 
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SillyBilly
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| James wrote: | | You mean an arger? |
No, it's similar to yours, and it has pipes running through the back to heat the water.
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andysleigh
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ours breaks down about every winter.
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SillyBilly
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Replace it!
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andysleigh
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we have, still no better realy
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SillyBilly
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LoL, what coal do you use?
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andysleigh
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gas coal
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SillyBilly
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So it's a gas fire?
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Wallace
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Easy solution. Move to OZ, live on the coast, and you don't need a fireplace
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James
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I like a coal fire in the house 
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