-10. crikey.

Igor

Igor

I was off yesterday, both kids have the bug. High temperature, barking cough, chills.

Youngest went to the loo..."dad, it's broken. the button won't push."

Quite correct. Opened the cistern - totally frozen.

"I haven't see this since I was your age, my lad. How cold is it?"

Went out, turned the car on....the LCD was struggling to function at all. Eventually popped up -10.

Same this morning. Lovely!

Spare fish tank heater in the toilet tank, rubber mallet for the ice, took the fill valve off and put it in warn water, same with the flush valve.

Works fine now, but...blimey...
 
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Murrs

Igor said:
I was off yesterday, both kids have the bug. High temperature, barking cough, chills.

Youngest went to the loo..."dad, it's broken. the button won't push."

Quite correct. Opened the cistern - totally frozen.

"I haven't see this since I was your age, my lad. How cold is it?"

Went out, turned the car on....the LCD was struggling to function at all. Eventually popped up -10.

Same this morning. Lovely!

Spare fish tank heater in the toilet tank, rubber mallet for the ice, took the fill valve off and put it in warn water, same with the flush valve.

Works fine now, but...blimey...
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Where are you Ivor? Or should I say where is it -10?
 
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The Geoff

Yup, -9C here in the northern Highlands this morning, and that's right next to the sea. Had to defrost the door seals on the car to get it open. Luckily I've been adding various bits of insulation in the house - curtains over exterior doors, thermal shutters over some windows, so it was reasonably warm in the house. Just been to the shops and it's still -6C out.
 
Technician Q

Technician Q

(she/her)
Weather station has reported -10. It’s at first floor height but because we have a bungalow it’s stuck out away from the house. House is cold despite best efforts of boiler.
 
Fallout_Girl

Fallout_Girl

Yep, we've had a couple of nights around -9/-10c here in Essex. Its been sub-zero all week, but has gone up to around 2c today. We're forecast a mild weekend so hopefully some of this ice will melt. The roads and footpath are treacherous around here.
 
A

Arian

Really cold here too in normally mild west Wales. It was -7 when I arrived at work yesterday morning and -8 today :shocked:
 
J

Jayn Wright

Yep, we had this in Cambridge too. -11 when I went to work on Thursday.
Year 11 boys toilets have cisterns mounted on an external wall, and they all froze and subsequently burst a pipe.

Yippee - water needed to be turned off at the mains to mend the pipe so worked from home (in the warm and my jamas) on Friday.

Pouring with rain/sleet now so back to school tomorrow.
 
Igor

Igor

karen b said:
We went to the Roman city at the end of half term. Lovely place. We stayed in Much Wenlock
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Ha, it is. If you follow the road up, there's some lovely old houses, the hotel, St Andrews church (quite a lot of roman stones in that, and roman pillars for the gates), and past that is the row of houses (and nothing else) where I am. and the Vineyard. Then for about..oh..2-3 miles, only 2 isolated houses. It's so peaceful after a day here... :laughing:
 
Mad hatter

Mad hatter

Igor said:
I was off yesterday, both kids have the bug. High temperature, barking cough, chills.

Youngest went to the loo..."dad, it's broken. the button won't push."

Quite correct. Opened the cistern - totally frozen.

"I haven't see this since I was your age, my lad. How cold is it?"

Went out, turned the car on....the LCD was struggling to function at all. Eventually popped up -10.

Same this morning. Lovely!

Spare fish tank heater in the toilet tank, rubber mallet for the ice, took the fill valve off and put it in warn water, same with the flush valve.

Works fine now, but...blimey...
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Leaving a light on in a room used to be an easy way to stop the pipes freezing but with low energy bulbs, there is very little heat produced. Worth fitting an old bulb if you still have one around.
 
Paul

Paul

Mad hatter said:
Leaving a light on in a room used to be an easy way to stop the pipes freezing but with low energy bulbs, there is very little heat produced. Worth fitting an old bulb if you still have one around.
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leave a tap dripping to relieve the pressure.
 
St Caths Crew

St Caths Crew

Igor said:
Ha, it is. If you follow the road up, there's some lovely old houses, the hotel, St Andrews church (quite a lot of roman stones in that, and roman pillars for the gates), and past that is the row of houses (and nothing else) where I am. and the Vineyard. Then for about..oh..2-3 miles, only 2 isolated houses. It's so peaceful after a day here... :laughing:
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Sounds like a lovely place, here there is me and tens of thousands of neighbours :)

We managed -7.5C during the cold spell, which for outer London is cold.
 
Bubblez

Bubblez

Puds said:
Ditto. We're in Outer London too. It's my dream to have no neighbours!
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I hate neighbours.
I am literally sandwiched between a crying baby below me and above me a young toddler running around with lead boots with parents who thump around at all hours and have more socials than Kim Kardashian. Opposite me I have someone who slams the door in the middle of the night with such force he must have been a Jedi in a past life. Forgot to mention there is literally no insulation between floors.

Only one month and then I move into a top floor flat with no neighbours except below, but thankfully it's a concrete floor...

I remember when I was a kid I used to watch property moving shows like escape to the country and getting confused/angry at the people who kept insisting they wanted nobody near them even though it was a detached property! I thought it was ridiculous and pretentious back then.

20 years later, I now know why...
 
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Puds

Emil Tac said:
I hate neighbours.
I am literally sandwiched between a crying baby below me and above me a young toddler running around with lead boots with parents who thump around at all hours and have more socials than Kim Kardashian. Opposite me I have someone who slams the door in the middle of the night with such force he must have been a Jedi in a past life or he hates doors with a passion. Forgot to mention there is literally no insulation between floors so the baby might as well be crying in my ear hole.

Only one month and then I move into a top floor flat with no neighbours except below, but thankfully it's a concrete floor...
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Otherwise, line your walls with Egg Boxes! ;) :p
 
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Puds

My neighbours have young kids who obviously sleep with their ears to the floor & walls simultaneously.
ANY slight noise after 7pm causes a text to be sent to me to " stop making noise, you are keeping my precious little princesses awake" ( Not a direct quote ;))
This includes, vacuuming ( sometimes necessary with clumsy me or boys who knock stuff over) fixing a sudden leak we had ( obviously I should have let water pump out until morning) me falling downstairs ( I'm very inconsiderate that way) or putting washing machine on ( no trying to save money on energy for us.) None of these things have ever been done after 8pm.
Funny how their kids aren't kept awake by their numerous relatives in & out at all hours, or parties until 4 am, or their Dad's voice that could break sound barrier. I wear my sons noise cancelling headphones in the garden in the summer.
I'm genuinely starting to hate kids...and neighbours.
 
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