How do you keep warm

[Kristen]

I use socks and woolly-hat made by Heat Holders (bought from Sock Shop online)

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https://www.sockshop.co.uk/by_brand/...ers/index.html

[rary]

Ah, my greenhouse is purely for plants and doing gardening related tasks. Have a nice comfy chair in the front room for reading and drinking brews so am going to stick with that

Oh! Alison you dont know what you are missing, the pleasure of an open fire ( the house is gas central heating) a kettle sitting on the top of the fire for a cuppa when friends drop in (Nicos do you take powdered milk or real cow juice) and when just your self you can talk to your plants

[Bigmallly]

Am I being thick or are you using a log burner inside a greenhouse?................

[veggiechicken]

Do you have a flue on your stove, rary? Where do the fumes go? Where is the fresh air intake into the GH?
I have a woodburner in the house with a proper chimney; can't see how you could safely use a woodburner inside a closed space.
However much you want to get out of doing the housework, its not worth suffocating yourself in the process.

[Bigmallly]

That's what I was thinking..........both the stove door/s & flue need to be well sealed.

[Guest]

Do you have a flue on your stove, rary? Where do the fumes go? Where is the fresh air intake into the GH?
I have a woodburner in the house with a proper chimney; can't see how you could safely use a woodburner inside a closed space.
However much you want to get out of doing the housework, its not worth suffocating yourself in the process.

just thought you might want a reminder

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ire_82861.html

the thread was closed as it was going in to the realms of calor gas bottle/ log conversion route (a smile because it is nice to know other grapes care even if you struggle to see it)

[Bigmallly]

I'd sooner put a thick jumper & a hat on................

[Alison]

For me when working in the garden on cold days to keep warm i normally wear (from top to bottom) Wooly hat, long sleeve T-Shirt, a Body Warmer, gardening gloves, Tracky bottom.......

I never understand body warmers, it's my arms that are cold (less natural lagging) and they leave those unprotected.

Oh! Alison you dont know what you are missing, the pleasure of an open fire ( the house is gas central heating) a kettle sitting on the top of the fire for a cuppa when friends drop in (Nicos do you take powdered milk or real cow juice) and when just your self you can talk to your plants

Doesn't sound appealing at all, coming back in stinking of smoke, yeukkk.

I'd sooner put a thick jumper & a hat on................

I'd sooner keep warm doing jobs or come back inside the well insulated house

[rary]

Do you have a flue on your stove, rary? Where do the fumes go? Where is the fresh air intake into the GH?

Thanks for asking VC & BM and yes I have a 12ft. chimny on the fire wich I am thinking on extending and the fire can be copletely sealed at the base The greenhouse has plenty of air getting into it as there are eight windows fitted on it which are not air tight as well as the door which again is not sealed tight

[Potstubsdustbins]

Two words............................ Carbon Monoxide

[Nicos]

^^^^ yeh, I was thinking there should be a CO detector in there.
It's regulations when it's in a house, no matter how badly insulated isn't it?

I hadn't even thought about wood fires and CO- thought it was just gas fires which needed them...until we had our first tiny one installed in our dining room back in the UK....we had to make a hole in the wall especially for the vent too! ( typical , as we'd just decorated it and the fire was the finishing touch!)

Best be safe rary

[Potstubsdustbins]

The name gives the game away, carbon monoxide. Can be a product of all carbon fuels, wood, coal, gas, oil and petrol being the most used.

I know I bang on about this, but I have been there so can wear the 'T' shirt. In my youth I was working on the gas board and went down into a cellar to work on a boiler, luckily the fitter saw what was happening grabbed the oxygen kit and dragged me out. It acts so quickly it is truly frightening I had lost the use of my legs in a minute or so. Off to hospital for three days and called lucky B*****d for months by my peers

50 to 60 % saturation of haemoglobin with carbon monoxide will produce loss of consciousness and coma. This sounds like quite a high figure until you realise that only 0.4% of carbon monoxide in atmosphere will give you 60% saturation in haemoglobin in just a few minutes.

Just 30 to 40 % saturation will give you impaired judgement, at that stage any sudden exertion will cause immediate collapse, then your DIE!!!

OH and A HAPPY CHRISTMAS to one and all.

[Nicos]

Flippin heck Pots

[Bigmallly]

It's not called The Silent Killer for nothing:

Why is Carbon Monoxide known as the silent killer?

[veggiechicken]

Rary, did you ever sort out the heating in your conservatory? http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tor_82126.html
Just curious