OT November Chit Chat II

[renee]

OMG, Gary.
Two below, no.

Snow is fair game this time of year but you live where you do
because you are happy there.
And someone has to grow spuds for Five Guys french fries.

I love wood stove heat and wood furnace heated houses.
My inner neanderthal relates to fire.

[Pegakafarmgirl]

renee ,, come to our house then,, we strictly heat with wood,,outside woodburner,, we love it,, Gary.Alaska is warmer then us,,,.. we were 2 below all day today,, yucks,,

[agate]

Gary, as I understand it, there are different types of heat pumps, and I don't know if yours is like the one I have but it took me several years to get used to it and to figure out how to tinker with its settings.

I'd never seen one before I moved here (2009). You have to program it for every couple of hours of every day to get it right but once you get the settings where you want them, it should be heating the place to whatever temperature you want it to.

If it also does air conditioning, it also has to be set so that there are at least 3 degrees difference between the cooling and the heating settings--if it's like mine, that is.

You can't have it set to start heating at 68' if you want it to start cooling at 70' because that's not a 3-degree difference.

If this makes no sense to you, you probably have a totally different type of heat pump and should just ignore this.

[Exacerbator]

Ha!

...

'And you think *you* got problems...'

[Parsi]

I really don't like those systems that turn on and off. The temp is not consistent enough for me. There's too much difference between the high and low. Then the actual blowing part of the cycle just exaggerates it. :(

After reading your post, agate, I have a clue what I've been doing wrong. But it just seems too complicated.

Ideally I'd love one of those places with a heated floor.

Unlike most of you, I haven't had to pull out winter coats yet. It's currently 9pm and 12C/54F here.

[Frog42]

Parsi, how cold does it get there in winter?

[Howie]

It was so cold here today, I had to wear my long thong.

[nuthatch]

er . . . long? really? I understand that cold causes shrinkage . . . you must have meant your thermal or polarfleece thong.

[Howie]

No, those darn things itch, in the worse places!

[SalpalSally]

No, those darn things itch, in the worse places!

Ya have to wash them once in awhile, Howie!! In Woolite and Downy!!

[Howie]

W a s h? You speak strange words.

[Gary]

ewwwww yucky change the subject. Lets go back to Howie's MRI report!

[Howie]

But Gary, what about your dream to become a cabana boy?

[Parsi]

Parsi, how cold does it get there in winter?

According to a climate chart I found
Average low for December is 2C/36F
Average low for January is -1C/30F
Record low for December is -13C/9F
Record low for January is -15C/5F

But I know that the answer is not that simple. There is a difference in elevation between the south of Tehran (warmer) and going up the mountain in the north of Tehran (cooler). Also the streets are lined with trees of various heights, walls, and tall buildings. If those streets are narrow not much sun penetrates to the ground and tends to be chillier there.

[Cherie]

We got above freezing for a bit today. Sunny and windy and bitter even tho the thermometer did not always agree. Going to an MS Lifelines C.H.A.T. tonight at a nice restaurant a half hour from here with another couple who have been friends for years and she was just diagnosed and they are so scared and don't know where to begin.