We tend to get little blips now, sometimes you barely know they’ve happened. Over 10 years ago we had a big gathering here over new year. As new year’s eve went on it started feeling cold in the house (it was -14C outside) and we realised the electric water heater wasn’t working. Called the board at 9.30, engineer arrived at 10.30, walking the last 300m through thigh deep snow. Main fuse on one of the phases had gone. Sorted and gone in 10 minutes. Great service! But the underfloor heating took about 10 hours to get properly warm again...
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I've only been using hydronic floor heat for a year. I love it. Took awhile to become familiar with the process. No quick changes. Mine seems to work best when it's below freezing outdoor temps. Temps in the 50F area easily overheats the house. Especially on a sunny day. I use Propane tankless heaters.
Worst time for us is in Spring and Autumn when it’s below freezing overnight but might be really sunny in the day. Can get a but warm then. But I’ve been tweaking the settings for over 3 years now and I think the trick is to set it lower than my wife thinks is the right temp!
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Yes. We have our house set on 70F. We only have throw rugs on the concrete floor. Sure is nice to walk thru the house in stocking feet and they be warm.
My shop is set on 69F. And that's too warm if turning wrenches on a tractor or something.
Well last week almost allthe snow round the house was gone. 16C on one day!! But started snowing on Saturday and finished monday. About 10” I suppose. But although it was -12 overnight the snow is quite damp and the sun really strong ths time of year. Should be 8+ tomorrow and 12 on Saturday. That’s why I left the chains on last week, in case it got deep and we had get out this week. Although we’re pretty much locked down; kids off school, only food shops etc open.
Yes the logging has been going on for some years now, alrhough at side if the river is supposed to be a National Park. Their forestry thinking is rather old fashioned to me. But the natural cover should be mixed beech woodland not the spruce planted post war.
We’ve red deer, bears, wolves and lynx (last two almost never seen).
I should say we’re at 900m with the mountsins to south about 2500
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Were your forests depleted during WWII?
I've been to South Korea a dozen times. They had no forests after WWII. Japan took it all.
We don't have Wolves or Lynx but we have Coyotes and Bobcats. Similar, just smaller. You see Coyotes once in awhile. Hardly ever see Bobcats, just lots of footprints.
I've been to South Korea a dozen times. They had no forests after WWII. Japan took it all.
We don't have Wolves or Lynx but we have Coyotes and Bobcats. Similar, just smaller. You see Coyotes once in awhile. Hardly ever see Bobcats, just lots of footprints.
Well we use a heat store system set to mid tank 58C, as it also supplies domestic hot water. But it goes through a 4way valve to the hydronic @ 35C. We have 9 zones which started off having quite different temp regimes. But gradually they’ve got closer to each other, which seems to be better.
It’s 19.48 now
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I figured you were farther ahead of us than that. I'll have to look you up on a map.
I don't have zones in my house or shop. One thermostat located in the center of the house. Floor temps are a bit higher closer to the heater. Cooler toward the outer walls. Only noticeable in the room farthest from the heater.
We use a separate Propane Tankless heater for Domestic Hot Water in the house.
Were your forests depleted during WWII?
I've been to South Korea a dozen times. They had no forests after WWII. Japan took it all.
We don't have Wolves or Lynx but we have Coyotes and Bobcats. Similar, just smaller. You see Coyotes once in awhile. Hardly ever see Bobcats, just lots of footprints.
I知 not too sure about the effects of the war here. Unlike in the UK (where I知 from) and the US I think, they don稚 really talk much about it. Except for the latter stages when there was the Slovak uprising. But looking at the sizes of most of the timber around, there痴 very little over 60 or so years old.
A friend just across from us saw lynx tracks this winter in woods about a mile or so from here. He also had a bad bear attack on his hives last year. An electric fence solved the problem!
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I think WWII was very brutal for most European countries. I think they got swallowed by the War Machine. Not pretty. Of course any resources they had were taken. The U.S. has never suffered thru something like that.
I have large Oak trees on my farm that I'd estimate at 150 years old. Hard to tell without harvesting one for the purpose of counting and I wouldn't do that.
I don't have any dangerous wildlife here. South of me 50 miles there are Rattlesnakes and Copperhead snakes. Largest wildlife is White Tail Deer which are harmless. Next would be Coyotes which are also harmless. Then Bobcats, harmless.
I have large Oak trees on my farm that I'd estimate at 150 years old. Hard to tell without harvesting one for the purpose of counting and I wouldn't do that.
I don't have any dangerous wildlife here. South of me 50 miles there are Rattlesnakes and Copperhead snakes. Largest wildlife is White Tail Deer which are harmless. Next would be Coyotes which are also harmless. Then Bobcats, harmless.
I figured you were farther ahead of us than that. I'll have to look you up on a map.
I don't have zones in my house or shop. One thermostat located in the center of the house. Floor temps are a bit higher closer to the heater. Cooler toward the outer walls. Only noticeable in the room farthest from the heater.
We use a separate Propane Tankless heater for Domestic Hot Water in the house.
We are in Zdiar, only 7 miles from Poland. We are actually separated geographically from the rest if Slovakia by the Tatra mountains.
We do not have a gas supply. The supply is only 400m away, but that is 6 different land owners to persuade. No chance!
