These air source things are quite interesting, how is it with the electricity consumption ? I've heard sometimes, they can be a bit heavy on the 'lecky'
Being an up to date system it very low as we have a smart meter as well its less than a pound a day as its on constantly the radiators don't pump out much heat but it takes about a week to get up to temperature when it put on.
I am retired Ian. I just took it a few years early so try to keep active while I can. Her indoors makes sure of that :tongue-out3: On the days I don’t go anywhere I just turn the heating on if needed……
I have a friend in the Borders with ground source heat pumps who tells me the input temperature (ground temperature) has dropped by 3 degrees in 5 years, so it's getting less efficient every year. Something to do with the local ground conditions I think.
When we changed from oil to Air source heating our electricity bill did go up a bit but we where still paying a lot less than we used on oil.
VERY senceible mr J/R at race towers an i'll be doin the same in the bullock man cave working on the tiger lol
Very similar here, minus several and lots of frost in the moonlight…..not got back above freezing yet either. The frost has only melted in the sun. Shadow areas are still frozen.
I bet those that were around in 1947 said something very similar in 1962 Ron :tongue-out3: . Can’t remember 1962, but then, I was only two……I remember walking three miles to school in 1979 though, and school was still open :cold-sweat:20 foot snowdrifts were reported on some roads around Salisbury. The main roads were closed for about five days, and the railways for three. A well reported incident from the drift clearance was a digger picking up some poor sods abandoned mini and dropping it on a hedge…..I started work in late '62. The big freeze started Christmas Day and lasted until April '63. Bad timing, what?
The ground remained frozen solid to a depth of a couple of feet or more for most of that time.
I well remember being driven along the ice on the River Dee in Chester as a back seat passenger in a Mini and being overtaken by a motor bike!
I wonder how the stuff mentioned in previous posts would have coped with a real winter....
Ivor Chyllblain
I started work in late '62. The big freeze started Christmas Day and lasted until April '63. Bad timing, what?
The ground remained frozen solid to a depth of a couple of feet or more for most of that time.
I well remember being driven along the ice on the River Dee in Chester as a back seat passenger in a Mini and being overtaken by a motor bike!
I wonder how the 'gadgets' mentioned in previous posts would have coped with a real winter....
Well i remember 62 to 63, and my brother and me built an igloo on our front lawn on Christmas morn, if i remember correctly. A lady came along and said, “Wow, can I go inside it?” and she loved it. I was only 10 years old at that time. Funny how little things like that stick in your memory for so many years. These days you see Radiators Ireland and all sorts of modern heating, but back then we were just happy to have enough snow to build an igloo! If I’d known what this world was coming to, I’d have had even more fun back then.
That sounds like absolute mayhem! Poor Lilley probably thought it was the best game ever, while you were fighting for your life with that flyswat. If it really was a queen wasp, I’d be checking every window, curtain and warm corner of the house. Hopefully you did get it and it’s just hiding somewhere, because the thought of knowing there’s still a huge wasp flying around would have me nervous too! 
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