Bring your ruler - Snow chat part 2

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As requested by our snow guru OYBBK heres the new thread as the other one is almost full.

And I have no idea why I'm still getting involved as we had no snow

West Sussex here and its -11

Forecast says its still going to be -8 at midday too. Brrrrrrr

Junior footy match just been cancelled. YAY!

Still no snow and above freezing temps

The pipes in my downstairs loo have frozen

Well it's warmed up to a positively balmy -6° here

Gotta love the sun coming out

Ooh yes youare we have sun too.

No idea if temp in Surrey, but cold enough to freeze the pipes in kitchen and downstairs loo - no heating in either of those places. Met office days it is -9 until 9am and then -6 until midday. Only had frozen pipes once before, about 6 years ago, when we had been away and left heating off for a few days.

Last time I checked last night it was -7c, that was at 1am ish though so may have got a little colder. Had a roaring log fire all night it was great!

OYBBK at -12c !! wow and -11 in London, cripes.

schilke - blimey!!!! frozen pipes indoors not good!
Sainsbury's seemed to be suffering rather - those hand scanners werent working properly and random alarms kept going off. Very surreal.
Made it to -4.3C now - positively balmy!

Met office say Holbeach in Lincolnshire got down to -15.6C

-9 in rural Leics about an hour ago.Our milk has frozen in it's bottles and pushed the top off.I'm summoning up the courage to go and see to the pony and defrost her water trough.

good luck Mirage - brrrrr.

I am alarmed to hear about indoor freezing. Are these draughty rooms? The fabric of the house has a high thermal mass so it takes a long time to get cold (or indeed warm again).

Frozen pipes are very liable to burst, not always the first time it happens. If they hold water at mains pressure, you can get a lot of damage.

It's a room on the outside of the building, always feels cold in there even if the heating is on.... but it is connected to the house. The pipes run up the inside of the outside wall.

Bit worried about the outside wall.

maybe invest in a small electric heater with a thermostat, so it will only come on if the temp gets really cold? If you can direct it against the bottom of that outside wall the brickwork will hold some heat.

Older plumbers say you should run pipes up internal walls.

Well this house is six years old, PJ. New ish build. First time this has ever happened. Worrying though.

quite new, so there will be insulation in the cavity walls. I wonder why it is so cold? does it have an external door that might be draughty? or holes in the floor or walls for pipes or drains? If it has its own radiator, could the heat have gone out through the doorway?

If you know a smoker, you could ask them to wave their disgusting fag around all the corners looking for draughts.

Still below freezing in London - the BBC website says -6! I'm sure this is an exaggeration, but I poured hot water on the birdbath to unfreeze an hour ago and it's frozen up again already, even though it's in the sun.

I'm only here for another three weeks so I'll not worry, but will report to the HA

-8 this morning when I went to de-ice the car. Temp hovering between 0 and -1 on the way home just now.
Netweather's thoughts on today and the week ahead.

(OYBBK, we tried out your recipe for Chocolate Orange Brownies (mentioned earlier in this thread) yesterday. I made double quantity and they've all gone! Don't know whether to be or that my lot have gone through them already!)

Water now working. Our house is 150 years old. Kitchen not quite so old, but built on at the back. Very cold as there is no heating in there - well just a fan heater I switch on in the morning to take the chill off. Downstairs loo is next to kitchen - used to be outside loo, but at some time was was joined on to rest of house. Again no heating in there...not strictly true as we had fitted an electric bar heater on the wall. I shall leave on low tonight. Dog was in the kitchen and I can report she wasn't frozen although didn't venture out from under her blanket until we'd switched the fan heater on

our old downstairs loo was like that - didn't even have a sink... It was so cold in there even on a normal winter I didn't go in there between October and March. Well, maybe I threw a bit of bleach in from a safe distance but that was it!

Pepperrabbit - just like that! I always use the upstairs loo as much warmer.

Well it's reached 2° here! Very sunny. I stupidly decided to go for a run, but it is really icy air and hurt my lungs and DS was struggling to scooter!

Gloria!

washing machineless again today (thank goodness its going to get a bit warmer else things could start to get smelly!)