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Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles - Thread 2

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Kucingsparkles · 07/12/2022 08:45

Continuation of previous thread.

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

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Britinme · 07/12/2022 14:20

Being in the States our house is timber framed and very well insulated, but we have oil-fired heating and as it's Maine very cold winters (not as cold as when I got here twenty years ago but still regularly down to -17C and sometimes lower. We went into a locked price deal in October which is currently costing us $549 a month until May. Probably nothing after that until the next October though. Our electric bills are currently about $80-90 a month. We are double glazed and don't suffer from condensation.

weaseleyes · 07/12/2022 14:24

I have condensation and an unsettling damp problem. I bought a dehumidifier a week ago and so far it's removing 12 litres every 20 hours and we're still on 70% humidity. We may actually just become water.

StephanieSuperpowers · 07/12/2022 14:37

That definitely sounds like a lot.

duc748 · 07/12/2022 14:39

Hello new thread!

Sinner >
Found your mail this morning and have replied.

artant · 07/12/2022 14:40

I got a dehumidifier last month (an Ecoair one costing about £150) which I’m only really using for laundry. I’m really impressed though. Took a load of washing out of the machine about midnight the other day and by morning it was mostly dry (despite the clothes horse being overloaded) and the dehumidifier had extracted about a litre of water.

Britinme · 07/12/2022 14:43

My daughter in Herts uses a heated clothes horse to dry laundry but that seems asking for condensation to me. We use a tumble dryer but it doesn't cost a lot as there are only two of us.

Ginmonkeyagain · 07/12/2022 14:48

@weaseleyes good lord! We extract about 2 - 4 l a day and it tends to do down from 66% humidity to 52%.

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Kucingsparkles · 07/12/2022 15:00

We extract about 2 - 4 l a day and it tends to do down from 66% humidity to 52%.

Sounds similar to here. But I do wonder about how localised the effect is: the dehumidifier lives in our bedroom, does the air in the rest of the upstairs get affected and by how much? And I assume the downstairs air not much.

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dolorsit · 07/12/2022 15:12

Britinme · 07/12/2022 14:43

My daughter in Herts uses a heated clothes horse to dry laundry but that seems asking for condensation to me. We use a tumble dryer but it doesn't cost a lot as there are only two of us.

I've got one of those and never had a problem with condensation.

I did buy a small dehumidifier this year because I did find that sometimes when drying heavy stuff it would get the damp smell. I run it for a couple of hours when I start drying and it seems to do the trick.

CyanCyan · 07/12/2022 15:16

Kucingsparkles · 07/12/2022 15:00

We extract about 2 - 4 l a day and it tends to do down from 66% humidity to 52%.

Sounds similar to here. But I do wonder about how localised the effect is: the dehumidifier lives in our bedroom, does the air in the rest of the upstairs get affected and by how much? And I assume the downstairs air not much.

I think the idea is you shut the door so it can concentrate on the humidity in the problematic/laundry-drying room. Standard ones aren't powerful enough to tackle larger spaces is my understanding.

SinnerBoy · 07/12/2022 15:37

duc748 · Today 14:39

Found your mail this morning and have replied.

I'll look in a bit. I'm a bit busy, been cutting wood, a bit of a drive to get some "anthracite replacement coal," made a fire, doing dinner and now, having a cuppa. I'm parched.

SinnerBoy · 07/12/2022 15:43

I've replied.

duc748 · 07/12/2022 16:12

Cheers, Sinner. Probably time for me to light the stove too, bloody cold today!

Tricyrtis2022 · 07/12/2022 16:18

Our fire is just getting started nicely. It's been cold today.

Tricyrtis2022 · 07/12/2022 16:21

Is anyone interested in an 'elderly parents' thread I'm thinking of starting in the folder of the same name? Mine are Resistant to Help and I'm very frustrated.

Britinme · 07/12/2022 16:38

As an elderly parent, I might follow that. Not that I'm either likely or able to get any kind of help from my children to resist, as two of them live 3000 miles away and the third is now about 450 miles away.

Tricyrtis2022 · 07/12/2022 16:46

I hope you have offers of help from elsewhere, brit.

Okay, I'll start one.

Britinme · 07/12/2022 16:48

Thanks for the kind thought Tricyrtis, though I'm not actually in need of any help right now!

Tricyrtis2022 · 07/12/2022 16:49

I'm glad to hear that, Brit!

SqueakyDinosaur · 07/12/2022 16:57

Could you link to your thread, Tri? Thanks

Tricyrtis2022 · 07/12/2022 16:58

Still composing it, Squeaky, but will do.

SqueakyDinosaur · 07/12/2022 17:00

Thanks! I and all my closest friends are pretty much at the point where one parent has died and the other one is getting more worryingly crumbly.

MavisMcMinty · 07/12/2022 17:02

My Dad’s 86, but lives the life of a lottery winner. I’m 59 and living the life of an 86 year old.

Tricyrtis2022 · 07/12/2022 17:02

Horrible, isn't it!

Here we go: www.mumsnet.com/talk/elderly_parents/4693403-parents-not-accepting-help-even-though-they-need-it

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Kucingsparkles · 07/12/2022 17:24

I might lurk on that.

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