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Yeah there is - it's hidden in the cupboard above. First time I've had an extractor that actually works and vents outside in about 8 years, makes for a much nicer environment in the kitchen!
Though given everyone in this threads surprising love for having smoke particles in the room, it's probably not a popular choice.
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Are we ok with birthday candles? They output 750mg/m3 of PM2.5 and are often surrounded by kids?!
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Folk love moaning about everything.
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burning structural wood is probably not great for you
If it's modern, absolutely. You don't want to burn chemically and pressure treated wood. The good news is that doing so is more likely to fuck up the person doing the burning, rather than the wider environment.
Ancient stuff pulled from a victorian gaff is probably fine. It won't have been treated, that's for sure, unless it's not original.
the net individual impact of car use is probably fairly low
Sure, all that mining, manufacturing, oil-pumping costs are nothing! Cars suck balls. Except when I want to go to the waterpark with my kid, which is well beyond cargo bike range.
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Sure, all that mining, manufacturing, oil-pumping costs are nothing! Cars suck balls. Except when I want to go to the waterpark with my kid, which is well beyond cargo bike range.
no argument from me, cars do indeed suck balls
all i meant is whether an individual drives or not has pretty marginal impact on wider society. The really harmful impacts are felt at scale.
I think you’ll find your dog has a bigger carbon footprint than a four wheel drive.
Funnily enough dog ownership correlates massively with car use, so you're sorta right
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All that fun chat reminds me that a guy once told me that his fire hot water tank worked best with chipboard. Wonder if those still exist in Berlin.
My old place at least had electric hot water, but coal ovens as the only economic heater.
It's pretty rare nowadays, but we still have people heating their homes with coal here. -
Our pals live in a village in Bavaria where lots of the houses are heated by a municipal wood-burning energy generator: https://www.naturwaerme-reit-im-winkl.de/
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My in laws have an open fire and burn mostly smokeless coal, logs made from coffee grounds etc sometimes dry logs from the garage. My father in law has had lung cancer and recovered. And persists to burn. They often have the central heating on at the same time - it can get staggeringly hot in the house. It’s about tradition and comfort for them largely. I’ve tried suggesting it’s not a great idea but it falls on deaf ears.
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We live in a 20yr old chalet in Switzerland and get the majority of our heat from burning wood. I don't like it, but the alternative is using the 20yr old electric radiators which will anyway be banned in the next few years. Ideally we would stick an ASHP or solar panels in, but our house is so badly insulated and poorly built that the investment would not be worth it.
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Pocket sliding door here - do we go for white or paint it to match the windows/woodwork? No skirting etc downstairs to match to. Or do we match to the darker green of the kitchen units ?
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They do. In theory it’s all sawmill off cuts and felled trees that it turns out aren’t good enough to use for anything else. No doubt everything chopped down is replanted and managed, this is Germany, and the pollution is contained in one place, away from housing so it’s better than everyone having home fires, but in reality everyone still burns their own wood because it’s more or less free and they’ve done it for generations, so no DVDs necessary.
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looking good @Tenderloin! I am consistently amazed by how tidy your tradesfolk keep the place. Has not been my experience at all and we've been living in the house through all our renovations.
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Getting things back on track, pretty pleased with how these lights worked out
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