Recent content by neoaliphant

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    The 'I've found a bargain' thread

    Gorilla tape handy roll ( the 1 inch wide , 9m long roll that Dave Canterbury uses) reduced to £2.94 amazon business price...was £3.62 earlier this year
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    Coping with the heat.

    Empirically i found milk made a lot of difference, sometimes ive magic bullet with icecubes and protein powder but just milk alone improves and reduces headaches sometimes we simply added salt/sugar powder to various drinks this summer... a "blackout blind" would be a cheap, non insulating...
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    Coping with the heat.

    weve been using blackout sheets as well, silver on the outside, and with harsh sunlight, means can actually watch a TV screen does help keep a room cool too.. might have been earlier in this thread that 35C in 100% humidity if life threatening does annoy me when people say the weather is...
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    Coping with the heat.

    they are going to be blacked out, they used to have iodine in, its just for watering garden mostly anyway...
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    Boring Freelander 2 stuff

    Its just like the new landlord/tenant laws needing EPC C, so basically replacing a working boiler with anothr one thats slightly more efficient apparently 75% of UK landlords replaced at an average cost of £5000 each all to save tenants a bit on energy bills what happens to teh £5000! gets...
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    Coping with the heat.

    Yeah, i wouldnt drink it, but id treat it the same as rainwater barrels attached to roof on that note, just got give 4x 1000L IBC containers...thats a lot of rainwater to keep our garden going... we just got the hosepipe ban, but it doesnt affect us as 1. i have a dirty car because glastonbury...
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    Coping with the heat.

    It depends what you mean by older stock 15 years ago lived in a 70s council flat, constant condensation problem difficult to open windows because of noise, dust from road, cigarette smoke and otehr nasties... moved to 200 year old cottage, no condensation, also almost immediate affect we hardly...
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    Coping with the heat.

    my AC is a meaca, rated 10,000BTU soemtimes we run it AC for a couple of hours just in the bedroom to make sleep possible other times just running it in dehumidifier mode... in 100% humidity.. 31C is life threatening temperatues.... we noticed lots of damp on our flagstones this summer with...
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    Coping with the heat.

    we were getting about 1-2 litres of water an hour running our small humidifier...let alone using larger portable AC in humidifier mode ( which helps save energy)....also the distilled water you get is good for indoor plants
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    Carnation Condensed Milk

    I got a load of tins on offer, made up several kilos of tablet was very tasty at first, but kept it in the shed chest freezer which was also full of bags of brussel sprouts so ended up with a huge amount of brussel sprout flavoured tablet.....
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    Coping with the heat.

    I live off the left of that photo, the view was pretty much the second one as it rolled it, but it was mostly purple, it looked straight out of the oblivion game, just waiting for the oblivion gate to appear There was something liek 20,000 lightning strikes over glastonbury , had loads of...
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    Coping with the heat.

    Taunton is a tarmac jungle.... Did you get the supercell the other week.....glastonbury was weird!!!!
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    The 'I've found a bargain' thread

    500ml hand sanitiser for 50p burns quite well, almost as well as hexamine made a holder from tealight dish, works well in esbit stove https://cheapfood.co.uk/relisan-alcohol-hand-gel-500ml/ loads of small things, cofee sachets, porridge , individual teabags etc
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    Am I carrying too much gear.

    That is a good point when i did viking renactment, some of used heavier weapons...a "medicine seax" for general weekend training and then for competitions or durring shows, swopped to a lighter every day sword....so much more control, and the heavier weapons built strength similar principle...
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    The 'I've found a bargain' thread

    Aldi have cast iron dutch oven £19.99, large inflatable mats £12.99... folding tables 12.99.. ProperJob has some decent enamelware out in their spring section, but they do every year, . folding chairs £19.99, whistling kettle 7.99