That's a great bit of history! Thank you.
That's a great bit of history! Thank you.Prior to gas CH, many families in the UK, US and Europe supplemented their coal fires / wood burners with paraffin heaters; they were popular from about 1900 right upto the 1960's. The UK manufactured "Aladdin" was a popular heater during this time. In Japan the majority of homes still use paraffin (kerosene) to heat their homes and domestic water and the technology continues to evolve. Japanese homes, in the main, are not insulated and are built to be drafty (cold winters but hot humid summers) they tend to only heat the room they are in and mostly use kerosene heaters. My understanding is they are also still popular in some US states, although happy to be corrected on this, if not the case now.
Yes, they are still popular, though not typically used for home heating, unless there is a power outage. You see them used in shops and garages during the wintertime quite often, as wood stoves have fallen out of favor around here....My understanding is they are also still popular in some US states, although happy to be corrected on this, if not the case now.
Did you check to see if the boiler needed to be pressurised afterwards? I'm asking since you mention the fact that your DIY knowledge is limited.I bled three of the radiators in my house. It needed to be done, as they were ice-cold and no heat was coming from them, even though my heating was on. That is about the extent of my knowledge of basic, domestic DIY.
This made me feel EXTREMELY "manly", lol.
Yes, I did. The pressure level on the boiler did go down a bit, but it seems fine. I'm not about to start messing around with it, in any case. I tend to leave things like that alone if I am not familiar with them. I am no gas engineer by any stretch of the imagination, lol.Did you check to see if the boiler needed to be pressurised afterwards? I'm asking since you mention the fact that your DIY knowledge is limited.
Wax removal or wax styled like those hipster moustaches?I waxed my nostril hair today, does that count as a manly thing to do, well it's done now anyway!
Paul.
Removal of nostril hair using wax.Wax removal or wax styled like those hipster moustaches?
Either one is cool.
I'll never look at Salvador Dali's moustache in the same way again now! Grade 1 premium nose hair?!Wax removal or wax styled like those hipster moustaches?
Either one is cool.
Did you use one of those "grenade" things? They look pretty manly. Although I was slightly disappointed to discover they're just solid metal with no trace of HE inside. OK so it makes it a bit less hazardous twatting one with a geet big mallet but you have to deduct one manliness point for lack of lethality and derring-do.Split some wood today,
I'm a lumberjack and I'm all right.. etc, etc.
Naw, just a big roughneck splitting maul. Don't have to hit the wood hard it splits quite easily. Does not have to be sharp as well.Did you use one of those "grenade" things? They look pretty manly. Although I was slightly disappointed to discover they're just solid metal with no trace of HE inside. OK so it makes it a bit less hazardous twatting one with a geet big mallet but you have to deduct one manliness point for lack of lethality and derring-do.
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