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Man’s greatest invention.
We lived in an uninsulated unventilated wooden bungalow with massive single glazed aluminium windows for a 18 months. Over winter the little yellow dream machine would pull literal litres of water off the inside of the windows every morning in seconds and leave them streak-free.
You’ll never look back.
Obviously you’re treating the symptom rather than the cause, but for us it was the answer.
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Yes, they're great and definitely worth getting, our sash windows used to get drenched and black mould would at the bottom part of the sash where the wood would get wet over time. This completely disappeared after using the vaccum on them. Takes about 10 seconds to do a window, great for using on the walls after a shower too.
Even if you need a dehumidifier it'll work much better if you're getting rid of extra water that'll just end up in the air first.
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Heating is for wimps.
The exception is when I burn £50s when visitors are over. #golfclubarubadub
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It might be £1 for the first hour but if you have a thermostat it'll cost less once it gets up to temperature
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Which one did you get? There looks to be about 4 karcher models, they all look pretty much the same.
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Any thoughts on the best way to heat an individual room for a few hours? No TRVs and can't find any that go with the radiators so central heating isn't really an option.
Main criteria are low cost (purchase and running) and portable. Ideally to bring the room temperature up rather than just heat a specific person.
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can't find any that go with the radiators
How so? I can't imagine that some sort of adapter is impossible.
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Cheers.Oil heaters seem a possible but most of them seem to be using a fair bit of power at 1,500-2,000W. I was hoping there might be some clever solution out there that I hadn't thought of that uses less power.
@TW it isn't that they won't work, more they'll look weird. All my valves stick out into the room so I think a TRV would protrude a fair bit and look ugly (at least I can't find any that won't)
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https://www.onlyradiators.co.uk/p/dq-heating-trv-corner-valves-pv
re electric heating a given spend on kWh will warm a room up just as much regardless of the specific gadget eg fan vs oil rad, just perhaps in less time with a higher power
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All my valves stick out into the room
That's a bit of an oops. Corner lockshield valves are a thing, and are relatively straight forward to fit.
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The leak maybe easier to fix than you think. Our boiler was leaking and I couldn't get a plumber. Youtube and a plumbing supplies place down the road had me replace a little diaphragm and have it all working flawlessly for about a tenner. That was over a year ago, and it's still going strong.
It's really just a matter of how confident you are to shut it down and take it apart. Good luck anyhow!