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Marc, this could be of interest to you http://openecohomes.org/diy-fanned-radiator/
They appear to be someone who has walked that way before.
The normal room heaters are not really radiators at all but passively driven convector units that warm air in their vicinity and encourage it to rise thus drawing fresh air beneath them. Is is very important to make sure that all fins are cleared of any dirt, cobwebs, fluff or whatever as that would have a big impact on the flow. I have assumed that the radiators you use are the sort either with two water jackets with fins between them or a single water jacket with fins to the rear. If not then a fan assistant would be pretty well useless. Because of the relatively low temperatures you would not expect to get a blast of heat from a fan anyway, it would have to shift a fair volume of air at a modest temperature. I suspect that you do need to check the bleed status of the radiator, make sure there is no sludge blocking the water flow and ensure that the vanes are clear of any blockage.
We have two double ‘radiators’ in our lounge and both are behind large high backed sofas. We strive to ensure an airflow gap between the chairs and the heat source and have no problem keeping the room warm, – keeping the door to the room shut makes a huge difference. We also use window blinds to shield the windows to restrict sun damage to the furnishings and to keep heat in, even though the windows are double glazed.
Yes Bob, 1962/1963 was a bad one. It started for us over Christmas, we heard the milk bottles rattle at some godforsaken hour and thought someone was up to no good. However, the milkman had heard that trouble was coming and tried to get his round done early. The weather arrived and it lasted weeks. For weeks the fastest thing on the Exeter bypass was a bulldozer. Somewhere there is a photograph of father and the company accountant who had gone out to inspect a site on the edge of Dartmoor stopped on one of the then main holiday routes. One of them was stood on top of the company mini van and could still not see over the snow banks. Thousands of animals died on the moors that year and the factory was busy processing them for a long time.
Today I did not have a wonderful start to the day, My wife struggled out of bed and I settled into the sort of dream that I would rather not have settled into. I was on a business trip, (note I have been retired for 16 years) trying to work out where I was going after all my papers had disappeared and the station was apparently about to fall down. Suddenly I was crowbarred awake by said wife telling me the boiler was making funny noises, it was not doing anything by then, just flashing its ‘unhappy’ light. A check confirmed the most likely cause was an ice blocked frozen waste pipe, so between 06:30 to 07:00 I was outside trying to defrost the thing. It was hopeless so I cut the pipe, a large amount of acid water soon gushed out, while ice bergs floated in the other part of the pipe. A trip to Screwfix for some temporary relief pipework and the heating was back on by 08:50. A better design for the permanent pipework can wait for a proper thaw, I questioned the fitter at the time he did the installation but he was sure his installation should be OK. Still we should now be OK until the country’s gas supply runs out.
Folded metal would be the slimmest solution for the case.
You really need a fan that reached the full width of the radiator with a motor at the end.
USB fans are very small with a low air movement capacity relative to a room, you would need a good power supply to drive them. After all the faffing about you would have a low effect system for maximum construction agro and probably little cost saving. For the next few days you might do better to pull the curtains if fitted, keeping them well behind the radiator line and possibly just duct the radiator heat up behind the sofa. Try it with cardboard as a quick trial, ensuring a sufficient gap for air to circulate. Do ensure the radiator is properly bled before going too exotic.
Nice garden Richard, but im not sure on your neighbours choice of paint colour. Who lives there? Barbie!
They are a slightly odd lot, the wife fancied a painter, had the house painted, then left with the painter. Well that is how the story goes anyway. No one likes the colour it looks OK under sodium light. I believe that the chap runs some Korean or Chinese restaurants.
Thank you for the comments on the garden Steve, I put lights in a few years back when my hands and other parts still worked, LED lights are wonderful, at night the snow looks quite magical, but it does not photograph as well as I would like – and I have tried.
Well it is already -5.2 at 17:52 and intermittent snow is blowing about. The road snow melted away, but there is now a light covering once more. It could be interesting tomorrow; that is as in the Chinese curse meaning of interesting. We are about 40 miles from the East Coast, others are worse off. I did not go out today, but might need to venture out tomorrow.
Apparently Granddaughter could not wait to go to school today, no delays, no fussing and no side trips. She thought the snow was magical.
Bob, what can anyone Government or otherwise do if stores are too large, too expensive, selling stuff that no one wants any more and in a style that no one desires?
The Government could insist on better focussed (vocational or specific?) education and training for responsive forward facing ideas. Make those who are supposed to manage better managers, better able to understand the roles that they should fulfil, trying to equip them to master and manage the need for changes. I have used Maplin in the past, its prices were high and its stock often backward facing, but they could sometimes be useful for the odd small part. However, when they were selling a £40 item for £30 more than the place the other side of the road, they faced a hard sell to me.
I was getting daily e-mails up to today, but it was the same stale items that I did not have an interest in buying three months back, I still did not. A proper education scheme should prevent any more Maplins, but the silly squad comes in several styles. Maplin appear to have been burdened by overly high levels of debit, as have other outfits that have stopped trading over the years. There is huge value in the saying never a lender or a borrower be. Some limited borrowing to directly support trading can be helpful, but living on almost unlimited credit will kill most businesses.
Oh, and yes I do sympathise with those now out of work, been there, done that got the tee shirts, which time then destroyed.
It appears that the end of this show might now be edging closer to an unsatisfactory end for all of the staff involved with last minute rescuers not yet found as both Toys and Maplin teeter on the edge of the abyss. Edinburgh Wool have apparently walked or perhaps run from Maplin and as for Toys R us their rescue plan has dissolved in the snow when a tax bill arrived before finances were sound enough to absorb the impact.
Overnight we had a little bit of the cold, make that very cold -6.7 and a tiny amount of funny white stuff.
Front View
Rear Garden, so I have to accept that the images from the rest of the country might not be false or fake news.
It is a bit chilly all round, though the snow is not really that deep or life restricting yet; we have had more, much more in the past.
I know the country does not get much sunshine surely people should not confuse sunshine with snow? Sunshine is about all we have really had so far. A tiny scattering of some easy melt white stuff may be a few eights of an inch at most, so why all the panic? If it was a shade warmer you could have sun bathed here.
I was thinking along the lines of – the midwife threw away the wrong bit after someone’s birth. Clearly someone let the wrong bit live and flourish – in other words, I can only agree with you.
I have never knowingly used it but have perhaps suffered from those damned call centres selling snake oil from overseas via cheap VOIP links. I did do some work type work years ago on it, but that was a long, long time ago as I retired about 16 years back.
I think it can be great if you have a need for what it can deliver and can benefit, but otherwise it is less interesting. My wife and I have lost contact with our overseas relatives and friends so the point is now lost for such calls.
As the sample started from age 11, you could also suggest that some good habits and preferences had been drilled into them, possibly in an environment that ensured their IQ was allowed to flourish without too many adverse impacts. However, this can s o o easily drop into a bad nurture, etc. etc discussion that it probably needs far more specialist care in its management than many sloppy statistical studies receive.
That said it is not clear what benefits going forward can be extracted from the study in its present form. The base year of 1936 came after the depression years when diets and concentration on food issues was more likely, better nourished parents tend to produce better developed offspring. The war years saw great concentration of efforts on childhood nutrition and that might (hopefully?) have played a positive role in both their physical/mental development and in establishing a sound basis for progress. Maybe that conditioning helped to close some minds to the blandishments of the deep-fried Mars Bars and their ilk. It is a conversation starter rather than a problem solver. I did note that the pattern of childhood IQ being a useful predictor of life out turns has been a consistent factor across other studies, may I express muted, very muted surprise?
I am with Steve on this, it is highly personal, your eyes; your place; your needs. You need to match the device to the space available, large can be nice but can you sit far enough back to take it all in? Will the rest of the kit produce the resolution you need? So on an so forth. Connections are important, both for now and possibly for the near future. I feel it is worth trying before you buy so you will have some idea whether a change of size could even suit you and your situation.
Perhaps grim, but also less grim if you can achieve the end you desire with dignity. When you have a neigh on 90 year old running about the roads chasing the police to find her ‘missing parents’, you know something is not right or going to end well.
I had a similar issue with a Dell portable, a phone call, a diagnostic check and a new key board was on its way. The change over was pretty simple back then, flip a cover, release a fastener or two, unplug; then reverse the process with the new item and it was right as rain. I guess not all progress moves forward.
The longer we live and the larger the reach of families and friends the more troubling cases we get to know about. All can be pretty ghastly. I knew a couple of 7~8 year old girls, one died from a brain tumour a long drawn out lingering end filled with peeks of hope and troughs of parental despair. They had to make 150 mile each way trips to the specialist hospital during the 1950s but the treatment then was pretty primitive and the hope at the end of the journey was really no more than a chimera. The other was killed very simply by the drugs her father took while delayed on his journey home by yet another British Rail strike. At least her end was sudden and quick so no lingering as the father lost control of his vehicle and ploughed into a fence. I will omit the gory bits.
An uncle was one of several who had lung cancer, again back in the 1950s. He had been a highly successful men’s hairdresser with an expanding business in the centre of Bristol until a major series of works closed roads and cut the business off from its customers. George’s end carried the double burden of his health and business failing leaving his wife and children to soldier on.
It is easy to try to create league tables of good and bad ways to go, a sort of I’ll trade you a liver cancer for a lung cancer and raise you a dementia. I’ll trump you with a sudden accidental death, for bowel cancer, etc.
Steve, I agree with your comments on end of life, it used to be so much easier when the matter was somehow less political and a suitable(?) pain killer could ease everyone’s existence. The likes of H Shipman, Beverly Allitt et al have a lot to answer for. If you have ever seen the long term decline of anybody with a condition that can only ever end badly any normal person will know that it is human to want to reduce the level of suffering to be endured. When their time is right they should be able to ‘go silently in the night’, their affairs in as much order as possible and so far as it is possible with their mind at rest.
Steve, that sort of thing stays with you for a long time. I was travelling back home in the 1960s when the first Cortina was selling well. It was a horrible night, squally rain, slippery roads and as often as not almost zero visibility. Several ‘heroes’ steamed past me during one downpour and shortly after it cleared it was clear that all was not well. A Cortina had possibly started round a left hand bend, the tail came out and it slid backwards across the verge into a side on collision with a very large tree. The speedometer was about 1 inch wide and the driver’s seat was folded back onto the rear from the force of the impact. There was no sign of anyone else except the obviously deceased driver in the car, though an empty baby seat in the back of the now windowless car had everyone worried. We searched the hedge and field fortunately without finding anything. A broken spirits bottle explained the aroma in the car though not all came from the bottle’s remains. It came out later that there had been some sort of family row, he had stormed out and at least one child was left fatherless and a widow had been created.
Today first I heard and saw a police car, then as I stopped for petrol on the way back from some shopping, a helicopter landed behind trees and buildings. The way home was closed off and I had a long detour round a housing estate. Judging by the number possibly as many as ten police according to news reports it was not a pretty incident. The air ambulance recently left the scene an hour and a half after the incident. For an OK stretch of road it has collected more than a usual number of deaths, an average of close to 1 a year over 25 years.
I used to use scrap yards for parts in the increasingly past, but these days most of the time I am only after consumable parts that have already been consumed by my use, so any second hand one is likely to be end of life. Interior parts like window winders and radio facias etc are very likely a reasonably good buy and any half decent scrappier will likely provide some sort of guarantee. I am not sure that tyres and brake parts would be such confident purchases. Being a total cheapskate I repaired the heater control knob, epoxy and several yards of tightly bound very strong button thread saw it last until I waved it good bye. I did once buy a rear axel, (1956 Ford Popular) and an engine (A30 from years past) but that was back in the early 1960s. Then an engine removal could take me just about an hour without a hoist and a mini clutch less than half a day, not any more.
I bought our little car about 12 years ago for our eldest daughter to learn on as well as being my runabout. Sadly medical matters got in the way and she never used it more than 2 or 3 times. However with all the family medical issues I ended up doing a shade under the insurance limit miles (14,000) for several years, even though I tried to share the miles out with the other car. Now most appointments are within a few miles and there can be days when the car does not turn a wheel. It is due an MOT quite soon so I wonder what will now show up as near the end of life. The exhaust is currently quiet, but the short run and no run days will start to take their toll, still as a 2006 I guess it needs some sympathy. Many years ago the Devon Police had a Vauxhall that in the course of three years. It was on the road 24 hours a day and they had to schedule down time slots for quite frequent services. I have a feeling it was reported as having done something well over 300,000 miles and to still be going strong with only the standard consumables ever being needed.
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