The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
I was wondering if multi-grain and/or wood pellet stoves have caught on over there. I heat my home with a corn burning stove. We have lots of stoves and furnaces that use corn, wood pellets, wheat, barley, cherry pits, etc. as fuel. Do you have such things?
-- Edited by command_z on Friday 15th of January 2010 03:44:05 AM
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In the cities you tend to have a preference for Gas fired boilers driving water based heating systems - with maybe a Gas fired 'flame effect' or Electric style heater in the main living room
In more rural areas (where the Gas supply would be too expensive to pipe to, per head of capita) people tend to favour either electric heating only or Oil fired boilers.
You do see people with wood burning stoves, log fires etc but its been a while since I've seen anyone use those to heat the whole house. The last time was back in the 90's when a friend of mine in Wales had an Arga (think thats how you spell it) which was basically a big metal box, with a log fire in it with pipes running water through the fire, pumping the water around the house to radiators.
Hopefully that answers your question :)
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I live in a ruralish area with no gas. We have electric heating, mostly storage heaters, whilst our next door neighbours have oil fired heating. Their heating bills are really high these days!
-- Edited by ddvmor on Saturday 16th of January 2010 12:49:15 PM
Darren, I am taking it that your electric heating is less expensive than fuel oil? Our electric heat is 3-4 times more expensive than fuel oil. I have a natural gas furnace also, but rarely use. Although this year the natural gas costs are cheaper than buying corn for the corn burner.
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Relatively cheap. Because our electricity is more expensive when here's high demand, the storage heaters charge themselves up overnight when the juice is cheapest and then expel heat over the following day - it sometimes gets a bit chilly toward the end of the evening, but it's only a problem if you get really unexpected cold weather. And that's when we put jumpers on.
