suein56
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Post by suein56 on Apr 2, 2022 11:57:25 GMT 1
Well I use smaller bottles - to fit under the sink - and I can assure you that they have risen in the last month and indeed in the 8 months before. €18.90 May 2021 €23.15 July and Sept 2021 €23.6 November €24.5 January €25.9 March We use the small 6kg Butane Cube bottles for our gas hob .. the last recharge I bought was in January '22 and cost 18€90 at our local Spar .. so your prices seem extortionately high exile. I haven't looked since then but will try to remember to look next time we go there.
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Post by annabellespapa on Apr 2, 2022 12:02:09 GMT 1
I hunt out those cheap pallets for wood, the corners and supports are basically compressed chip board, if you look, there are hundreds around, usually broken, dried out they are as good as those expensive compressed logs plus the actual wood of the pallet cuts down for kindling. Win Win ! I bought a Ryobi saw bench about 15 years ago, cuts everything and anything, it cost about £120 back then, folds away and wheeled out when needed. www.toolstop.co.uk/ryobi-ets1825-254mm-10-folding-table-saw-240v-p10457/That's similar to what I bought but they have gone up in price massively, mine was from B&Q at the time and on offer.
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exile
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Post by exile on Apr 4, 2022 20:37:39 GMT 1
Well I use smaller bottles - to fit under the sink - and I can assure you that they have risen in the last month and indeed in the 8 months before. €18.90 May 2021 €23.15 July and Sept 2021 €23.6 November €24.5 January €25.9 March 5.5kg I assume, is that for cooking?
If so then you are getting through a hell of a lot of them.
I have been thinking about the "getting through a lot of gas" comment. Having done soap bubble tests on the pipework joints, I have looked for reasons why our usage might be so much more than you would consider as normal. Firstly altitude. At 3000ft water boils at 97C rather than 100C. Chemical reactions ( and cooking is a series of chemical reactions) roughly double in speed for every 10C increase in temperature. So that 3C drop in boiling point means that for every water based cooking operation which requires boiling or simmering will take around 50% longer. [Because this 10C doubling of reaction rate is exponential the last 3C represents a bigger portion of that doubling - actual log base 10 of 3 = 47.7%]. WE see this in the time taken to cook things like pasta rice and potatoes where the extra cook time is indeed tending towards half as long again as normal or what it says on the packaging. Not sure how/if altitude impacts on frying (probably not greatly) but we don't fry very much. Secondly of course, we are two and so the volumes to be cooked are double. This won't double the heat input needed but it will certainly add a further demand. So on reflection I am not overly bothered by your comment about gas usage, which in significant part at least I can rationalise.
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Post by Polarengineer on Apr 5, 2022 8:41:16 GMT 1
You should be using a pressure cooker Exile.
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Post by rabbit on Apr 5, 2022 8:46:24 GMT 1
My old peasant farmer and wood supplier pegs the price of his wood to the gas price
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Post by Aardvark on Apr 5, 2022 10:49:08 GMT 1
I envy anyone living near a source of free broken pallets. Around here they are always behind fences or in locked compounds. I sometimes get lucky at Brico D but more often than not someone has beaten me to it.
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Apr 5, 2022 11:04:52 GMT 1
I envy anyone living near a source of free broken pallets. Around here they are always behind fences or in locked compounds. I sometimes get lucky at Brico D but more often than not someone has beaten me to it. OH has only just cut the last remaining pallet we had up into kindling. It looks as though there there will be no more.
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Post by annabellespapa on Apr 5, 2022 11:32:17 GMT 1
In Brittany (22) near us is a double glazing company, the new windows are brought on specially modified pallets, which are no good for anything else, they are grateful when I roll up with my 8ft trailer and load up, I always offer some cash but they wave me away saying I am doing them a favour, why they don't go back to the people who make the windows is beyond me but I will not suggest it as the pallets are useful. The old wood windows they have replaced are available but there is a lot of fiddling plus the risk of cutting yourself on broken glass and the saw blade doesn't like hitting random fixings in the frames.
Another good source of pallets is the ones dumped outside our local tip, which is closed Sundays and Monday morning.
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Post by specsavers2 on Apr 6, 2022 10:48:02 GMT 1
We got another stère of logs yesterday. Phoned the supplier and half an hour later they were delivered. He left his trailer and returned a bit later. All stacked and tidied within the hour. Very fortunate he is only 1 kilometre up the road.
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Post by ibis on Apr 6, 2022 13:45:19 GMT 1
The old wood windows they have replaced are available but there is a lot of fiddling plus the risk of cutting yourself on broken glass and the saw blade doesn't like hitting random fixings in the frames. With a few blocks or pieces of wood they can make good "hot houses" in the garden to start or grow your veggies.
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Post by annabellespapa on Apr 7, 2022 8:11:39 GMT 1
The old wood windows they have replaced are available but there is a lot of fiddling plus the risk of cutting yourself on broken glass and the saw blade doesn't like hitting random fixings in the frames. With a few blocks or pieces of wood they can make good "hot houses" in the garden to start or grow your veggies. That is just what I have done, the good thing with French windows is the glass is rarely broken as the hinges just lift off, just replaced some double glazed units in the UK and no matter how I tried the frames and in one instance the glass broke on removal.
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Post by Aardvark on Apr 7, 2022 11:33:04 GMT 1
A friend of mine collected a large quantity of these old windows from his local tip and built a very nice (and stylish) greenhouse. At first glance I thought it was a pro-built item.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2022 19:57:03 GMT 1
Aardvark if you were closer you could have had a free van load of wood it comes split.
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Aardvark
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Post by Aardvark on Apr 13, 2022 20:49:03 GMT 1
I appreciate the sentiment, even from a distance.
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