The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2021/2022 thread

[Puggit]

8 hours of DIY and gardening.

1664 o'clock

[Puggit]

Just catching up with the news from Italy.

740mm (29 inches) of rain in 12 hours.

Thats a staggering amount of water. A new European record.

[Scabutz]

Puggit said:

Just catching up with the news from Italy.

740mm (29 inches) of rain in 12 hours.

Thats a staggering amount of water. A new European record.

fking hell.

[Bill]

Scabutz said:

fking hell.

[Puggit]

A pleasant enough week, nothing noteworthy in terms of heat, but high pressure in charge, bringing in a northerly wind for Great Britain. Changes afoot for the last third of October - cool and unsettled on the cards.

Checked your boiler's working yet?

[JakeT]

Need to do the annual bleeding of the rads, too!

[HustleRussell]

Some great night skies recently

[Puggit]

JakeT said:

Need to do the annual bleeding of the rads, too!

What a quaint antique heating system you have I just check the pressure on the boiler, open a tap under the boiler and it fills the system up

[Johnnybee]

[RicksAlfas]

Puggit said:

What a quaint antique heating system you have I just check the pressure on the boiler, open a tap under the boiler and it fills the system up

I do that... after bleeding the radiators!

[s6boy]

Puggit said:

Just catching up with the news from Italy.

740mm (29 inches) of rain in 12 hours.

Thats a staggering amount of water. A new European record.

Only just seen this, where abouts in Italy?

[JakeT]

Puggit said:

What a quaint antique heating system you have I just check the pressure on the boiler, open a tap under the boiler and it fills the system up

Where are you, your dads yacht!? We did drain the system the other year, and what came out was interesting.

[Seventy]

s6boy said:

Only just seen this, where abouts in Italy?

‘World is dangerous’ video from Liguria.

https://youtu.be/3CIDeePLGjs

As an aside I visited Cherrapunji in July about 15 years ago.

Jesus!

[Puggit]

JakeT said:

Where are you, your dads yacht!? We did drain the system the other year, and what came out was interesting.

Had a new boiler installed last winter - none of that bleeding stuff required now! I have no idea on the technical aspects, just I don't need to bleed! House is 16 years old, so it's a fairly modern system away from the boiler.

[BertieWooster]

Winter is on the way up here in the Rockies. Looks like we have our first storm rolling in tomorrow - the forecast is for 4-8 inches of snow in the high country.

[jimmyjimjim]

I caught a good view of the Rockies in snow on Saturday. I noticed the potential frost forecast for Tuesday is now pushed back a few days. Which is good - my sprinkler guy comes on Tuesday and I'm getting tired of racing the first snow/frost/frantically trying to drain pipes before they burst.

I'll wash the car after he's done, that should hurry things along.

[MentalSarcasm]

We had the boiler serviced last week and had the heating on occasionally since then.

I'm now eagerly waiting for the first frost.

[colin_p]

Moving house in a week and we don't even know if the boiler works at the old new place.

That said and regardless, the first job is to get someone in and fit a full whole house aircon system!

You can always put a jumper on.

[Scabutz]

Puggit said:

A pleasant enough week, nothing noteworthy in terms of heat, but high pressure in charge, bringing in a northerly wind for Great Britain. Changes afoot for the last third of October - cool and unsettled on the cards.

Checked your boiler's working yet?

Last few days have been very mild and pleasant, blue-ish skies with a bit of cloud, but warm. Today there has been a change. I like to keep the window open in my office for fresh air, but if felt very chilli, even now with a hoody on it feels cold.

[Puggit]

colin_p said:

Moving house in a week and we don't even know if the boiler works at the old new place.

That said and regardless, the first job is to get someone in and fit a full whole house aircon system!

You can always put a jumper on.

Good luck Colin, we'll miss your hot weather moaning!