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People with the heating on in the middle of summer

  • 06-06-2013 10:27PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭Kichote


    I was driving through Ardpartrick today or some place nearby anyway and saw a house with smoke bellowing out the chimney. It was a roasting day. 20 solid degrees, not a cloud to be seen and maybe a very light breeze. Couldnt fecking believe it

    Its like some people will be cold no matter what. Why dont they just emigrate to a warm country if it's still too cold for them now?

    Its remotely possible that they were testing the fireplace or trying to get rid of old papers but unlikely, you'd think they'd wait for a cold day!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Maybe they had a young baby and wanted to heat the house


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    They must have money to burn.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,697 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Maybe they elected a new pope?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,935 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    North facing house? I have one, and it can be chilly on the hottest of days! (not to the point of lighting a fire, mind you.....)

    Heating the water???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭bgrizzley


    backboiler, heating water for washing?

    edit
    beat me to it Heidi


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    Or an old person...old people can never get the heat into them!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    They might have an old style back boiler in their fireplace.

    They might want hot water if that's ok with you and doesn't upset your life too much thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    I'm gonna go with heating water...lots of people still do it like this. including some of my family. not that unusual.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭bgrizzley


    We run the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas and we save two hundred pounds a year...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    Have you got enough reasons there now OP?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Burn the sacrificial goat in the back garden and people complain.

    Burn it in the privacy of your own fireplace and you people STILL complain. Feck's sake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    OneArt wrote: »
    Burn the sacrificial goat in the back garden and people complain.

    Burn it in the privacy of your own fireplace and you people STILL complain. Feck's sake.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Festy wrote: »
    Welcome to AH

    Yes.


  • Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Amani Millions Twit


    We need to heat our water


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Gets chilly at night you know. . .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Oh me head


    Did you see flames in through the windows by any chance?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Could be one of dem bleedin foridneers that don't think 20 is warm


    or someone getting rid of a body,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 lisatu


    I had the fire lighting a bit today and id say my neighbours must have thought we were nuts, but we have a backboiler and its cheaper than turning on the immersion. Rads are turned off though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭Real Life


    I know someone who has bad raynauds disease and has to have heating on all year round. You cant really be judging people like they are in the same situation as yourself, theres often good reasons for these things.
    Of course in this case it may not be anything like that at all


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    I could say they're a funny lot down in Ardpatrick, as I used to live near there, but I don't really have any evidence for that. I'd go for the back boiler & shed full of turf theory in fairness. Or maybe burning the rubbish in the grate as its illegal outside now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭jamaamaj


    Probably Niall Collins house.
    Can't have our TD's cold no matter what can we?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    What's wrong with an immersion heater? Are there still houses without them? :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Some Irish folk (women usually)
    Think anything below 18 degrees is freezing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭Kichote


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    I could say they're a funny lot down in Ardpatrick, as I used to live near there, but I don't really have any evidence for that. I'd go for the back boiler & shed full of turf theory in fairness. Or maybe burning the rubbish in the grate as its illegal outside now.

    Could be a back boiler alright but even then you'd heat up one room to boiling point and I don't know who'd put up with that in this weather. Each to their own I suppose


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Kichote wrote: »
    I was driving through Ardpartrick today or some place nearby anyway and saw a house with smoke bellowing out the chimney. It was a roasting day. 20 solid degrees, not a cloud to be seen and maybe a very light breeze. Couldnt fecking believe it

    Its like some people will be cold no matter what. Why dont they just emigrate to a warm country if it's still too cold for them now?

    Its remotely possible that they were testing the fireplace or trying to get rid of old papers but unlikely, you'd think they'd wait for a cold day!

    If they were elderly, they might not feel the warmth as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Dat be dem mooonshiners you gone and uncovered..

    You better skip county OP or you aint be gettin any older pruty soon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    This post has been deleted.

    Why would people care enough to make excuses? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭Shtanto


    Could be that the house is north facing (+1) or they haven't aired the place out properly. Stale air doesn't heat very well. Bay windows is what you need there. South facing if possible.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,801 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Apart from the fire being on or not I do laugh at people here saying that temperatures of 18 to 20 degrees as a "roasting hot day".

    Have you never been abroad to plus 30 degree temps?

    It's pleasant at the moment but by no means hot.


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