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Post by John Farrell on Feb 4, 2024 5:51:15 GMT
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Post by Kath on Feb 4, 2024 12:59:15 GMT
Makes sense really. We know that 'we' brought pestilence and disease to other civilisations. Why should the Romans have been any different? I think I'll go and hoover my mattress now though.
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Post by spinno on Feb 4, 2024 13:32:18 GMT
Makes sense really. We know that 'we' brought pestilence and disease to other civilisations. Why should the Romans have been any different? I think I'll go and hoover my mattress now though. Make sure it's up to scratch... |
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Post by geoffr on Feb 4, 2024 22:31:59 GMT
Makes sense really. We know that 'we' brought pestilence and disease to other civilisations. Why should the Romans have been any different? I think I'll go and hoover my mattress now though. Just turn up the heating Kath, heat is the most effective way to kill them, needs about 54C for 90 minutes to kill bugs and eggs. |
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Post by spinno on Feb 4, 2024 23:09:10 GMT
Makes sense really. We know that 'we' brought pestilence and disease to other civilisations. Why should the Romans have been any different? I think I'll go and hoover my mattress now though. Just turn up the heating Kath, heat is the most effective way to kill them, needs about 54C for 90 minutes to kill bugs and eggs. Cost a fortune that way |
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Post by geoffr on Feb 5, 2024 8:01:48 GMT
Just turn up the heating Kath, heat is the most effective way to kill them, needs about 54C for 90 minutes to kill bugs and eggs. Cost a fortune that way Indeed but, unlike other methods, it works, 100% apparently. |
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Post by Kath on Feb 5, 2024 8:02:08 GMT
Makes sense really. We know that 'we' brought pestilence and disease to other civilisations. Why should the Romans have been any different? I think I'll go and hoover my mattress now though. Just turn up the heating Kath, heat is the most effective way to kill them, needs about 54C for 90 minutes to kill bugs and eggs. I'll bear that in mind should I ever win the lottery  Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! |
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Post by zou on Feb 5, 2024 9:24:11 GMT
Just turn up the heating Kath, heat is the most effective way to kill them, needs about 54C for 90 minutes to kill bugs and eggs. I'll bear that in mind should I ever win the lottery Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! In a wee café/general store/post office in Skye once we encountered a radiator so hot that touching it may have left skin behind. The proprietor's cat was sleeping with its head wedged firmly against it. |
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Post by peterob on Feb 5, 2024 9:42:27 GMT
I'll bear that in mind should I ever win the lottery Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! In a wee café/general store/post office in Skye once we encountered a radiator so hot that touching it may have left skin behind. The proprietor's cat was sleeping with its head wedged firmly against it. In our first house we had coal-fired central heating via a back-boiler. It was quite easy, and entertainingly* noisy, to be circulating near boiling water through the radiators and have the back-boiler boiling. *once you got over the fear that the system wasn't about to explode. |
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Post by Kath on Feb 5, 2024 12:27:23 GMT
I'll bear that in mind should I ever win the lottery Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! In a wee café/general store/post office in Skye once we encountered a radiator so hot that touching it may have left skin behind. The proprietor's cat was sleeping with its head wedged firmly against it. The school I went to in Cambridge had a long row of classrooms with floor to ceiling glass windows on one side (single glazed). The only heat came from a single pipe that ran at about two or three inches above ground level the length of the building through each classroom. Shin height. It was so hot I melted my (completely man made fibres) school trousers where they came into contact with it. And yet there was one lad who'd regularly remove his shoes and put his feet up against it. Must have had dreadful chilblains and/or asbestos feet. |
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Post by John Farrell on Feb 5, 2024 17:35:04 GMT
The first house we owned, 50 years ago, had a coal range with a wetback in the kitchen. We occasionally cooked on this, but usually just used it for heating in the winter. Once, when we had it humming on a cold night, it boiled the water in the hot water cylinder, and sent it all out the overflow - which put it into the header tank above the cylinder. Very noisy.
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Post by kate on Feb 5, 2024 19:03:39 GMT
The first classroom I sat in had a stove right by the teacher's desk. Our milk bottles used to be sat there in the winter to defrost. I always asked for mine to be separate and still cold. The toilets were outside, so the bowl used to freeze and climb up towards the seat. Cold visits!
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Post by peterba on Feb 5, 2024 19:11:49 GMT
Just turn up the heating Kath, heat is the most effective way to kill them, needs about 54C for 90 minutes to kill bugs and eggs. I'll bear that in mind should I ever win the lottery Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! Even with a lottery win, I don't think you'll get your heating up to 54°c, Kath. The record for the highest temperature on Earth is 56.7°c... somewhat beyond the capabilities of domestic heating systems. 
I think Geoff was tweaking your tail.  |
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Post by peterba on Feb 5, 2024 19:15:09 GMT
The first classroom I sat in had a stove right by the teacher's desk. Our milk bottles used to be sat there in the winter to defrost.
That's a scene I recognise, from primary school, Kate. |
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Post by Kath on Feb 5, 2024 20:13:37 GMT
I'll bear that in mind should I ever win the lottery Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! Even with a lottery win, I don't think you'll get your heating up to 54°c, Kath. The record for the highest temperature on Earth is 56.7°c... somewhat beyond the capabilities of domestic heating systems.
I think Geoff was tweaking your tail. I knew that! (My heating struggles to get to 18C at the moment.) |
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Also, am I to stand out in the rain for 90 minutes while all this is going on?! Not sure where I'd put the cat either - I might come back to slo-cooked moggie?! 
