Bullet2012
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5 years and 95 months it sounds like to meI stayed there for 13 years, which was around 5 years too long
5 years and 95 months it sounds like to meI stayed there for 13 years, which was around 5 years too long
That’s Good old buckfast for youUtter nonsense, of course. I worked for a family business where the husband and wife were convinced by Feng Shui.
We had two buildings in the centre of Edinburgh and it was no surprise that Master ***n announced that the massive corner office with high ceilings was the "room with power" and that is where the boss should have had his office. I'd loved to have seen the CEO's reaction if the guy had suggested that the broom cupboard under the stairs was the "room with power".
The Master came in around once a year and we had to move people around as he announced that "this room no longer has luck" and "this room now sees money".
And then, most crazily, he announced that all of the money and power had left one of the two buildings so we had to move everyone out of that building and into the other leaving a £2m town house in Edinburgh empty for eight years while everyone squeezed into the other building.
Mad... totally mad... (and I stayed there for 13 years, which was around 5 years too long...)
A friend of mine fitted a weather vane on the roof of a barn conversion he was doing, he used a compass to get it aligned perfectly which meant it was about 30 degrees off being square to the building. The customer made him move it so it was square to the building.I was once asked to refit a front door to a certain Compass bearing.
Which would have bee. About 8.5 degrees out of line with the front elevation. Bloke was crackers.
Dyson downgrade their hoovers. They had the best one going and then they made it cheaper....and it was garbage.if it was that good, it would be 10x the price and sold by Dyson
I would guess that if anything , the wiring in your house would be what gets hot.it is. wonder how many people have fallen for it and bought one https://getecoquest.com/article3/uk...dWaphfT_JN1l0Wf2z3FnjwnOEc_1BHyRoCl50QAvD_BwE
I was once asked to refit a front door to a certain Compass bearing.
Which would have bee. About 8.5 degrees out of line with the front elevation. Bloke was crackers.
But, are you metric or imperial?I just can not align my chakra
I was fascinated how the incredibly realistic flames worked, on our electric fire, so I pulled the 'coals' off the front and found a bulb, with a simple pressed aluminium fan balanced on a spike atop it. I think I was ten, but always remember how simple and effective it was.I can't remember who did exactly that with a fire in their house when I was a kid - never mind the heating effect of the 100W bulb under the front, all you could smell was the hot fibreglass of the "coals"
I always wear a sweater and a woolie hat in the house, means I can run the whole house cooler.So... There might, maybe, be some energy savings to be had by changing to big ceramic type heaters that do more radiation and less convection than a standard rad. Essentially letting you run the house cooler, while maintaining comfort. But those nasty little 400W fan heaters .... save the production of pointless junk and send China a cheque directly instead.
I remember finding the same flame wobbling device tooI was fascinated how the incredibly realistic flames worked, on our electric fire, so I pulled the 'coals' off the front and found a bulb, with a simple pressed aluminium fan balanced on a spike atop it. I think I was ten, but always remember how simple and effective it was.
And so began a lifetimes career of taking things apart to see why they were working so well, and quite often killing them in the process.
Ah bugger I've mixed units.But, are you metric or imperial?
Sat here in several layers, work boots over thick socks, sometimes working on work stuff
I want to know why 18 degs in the summer felt nice . . . and 18 degs today makes my knees hurt . . .
Genuinely interested in at what age did you start to put the things back together again?I was fascinated how the incredibly realistic flames worked, on our electric fire, so I pulled the 'coals' off the front and found a bulb, with a simple pressed aluminium fan balanced on a spike atop it. I think I was ten, but always remember how simple and effective it was.
And so began a lifetimes career of taking things apart to see why they were working so well, and quite often killing them in the process.
I don't see what you are all getting so worked up about. The bloke on the video tested one and took it apart. It was a 1/3 of a kilowatt fan heater, so would be as good as any of the same size, if it doesn't melt it's own plastic. Yes, "heating a room in minutes" is pushing the limits of truth, but compared to Fischers adverts for electric heaters, is way more modest, and you loose a lot less money buying one of those Chinese heaters than a Fischer.