Paphos People

When I left for work this morning there was frost and ice on the ground. We moved here at the end of January last year and it was extremely wet and windy, but we never saw ice.

Our best buy last year was definitely the log burner. It was installed in August when we couldn't imagine ever needing a fire again, but it has come into it's own now. It stayed in all last night and was still going this evening when Phil came home. Blazing away now to keep me toasty.

Does anyone know where we can buy cupboard heaters? To keep out wardrobes aired.

Verity.

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Verity.

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I have never heard of a cupboard heater ??

But I will tell you this...ITS BLOODY BRASS...

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
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A bit like a mini radiator that you plug in to an electric socket. To stop your clothes getting mildew.

Verity.

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Verity.

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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Funnily enough, Verity, to curry favour with the wife I'm setting about giving her the airing cupboard she's always wanted in Cyprus, but never had. She always moaning (rightly) that there's nowhere out here to air clothes, once you've ironed them.

So, we have a tall cupboard on the landing, but nothing inside to warm the sheets and towels stored there. In a stroke of ingenuity I've decided that all we need to do is extend the cupboard forward by about a foot (little bit of brickwork and mess there), install some slatted shelves, get an electrician to take power from an adjoining bedroom, install a small, low-wattage heater...and Bob's your uncle...wife ecstatic! Lloyd

Can you not just use a Oil filled radiartor or are they too big

Pete

Bit on the big side, Pete...it doesn't take too much to heat up a cupboard. A few tens of watts rather than thousands, I suspect. We use an oil-fired rad in the living room in the daytime and evenings to take the chill off the air - and even dare I say, warm the room up slightly. I rue the day we listened to the developer's salesman, who told us we wouldn't need central heating - nor even provision for. Worst advice we were ever given. Lloyd

... if our house had windows and doors that seal shut when closed and if the house had walls and roof that were insulated with an air gap or specialist product then i do wonder how much less heating we would need. As it is the heating runs for nearly 4 hours each evening and a couple in the morning - we are doing our bit to warm the garden and air around the house. Where we are it hasn't got below 5-6C at night yet but still feels chilly when the inside air-temp is actually warmer than a normal spring day in London.

I`m yet to see frost or any sign of cold "down" here in Kissonerga, but did see ice/frost on the road to Kakopetria from Troodos a couple of weeks back !

We have very big cupboards

Last year, same as Verity, we went out & got ourselves a wood burner which is a god send, as we have a reverse living house & the ceilings in our living room are about 18ft high, plus its open plan all the way around, kitchen, dining room, stairs etc, only doors are on the 3 bathrooms & 3 bedrooms, so any heat we get goes straight our of the living area & vanishes

On top of this, we have a puppy, so we are constantly opening the patio doors so she can out & do her business so losing any build up of heat

And talking of cupboards, all three bedrooms have fitted floor to ceiling cupboards.. so a oil fill rad would fit in them easily

Pete

I think all houses should be built with provision for C\H
We are just about to start a new property development
6 town houses (stone)
we have instructed the architect to do them with cavity wall insulation, and provision for C\H .

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Oh we have preovision for C/H but as we rent, we're not gonna pay out approx €4200-€5100 for someone else to get the benifit after we move

That should be the landlords job, not ours

Pete

Is it me or was it exceptionally cold this morning

We left the house just after 8.30am & it showed 3c on the temp gauge in the L200... it was only 9c when we got to the shops in Geroskipou... not sure what it is at present but I'm sat with 2 fleeces on & a oil rad under my desk

Pete

Its warm enough here, up by the courts ..

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Hi Pete

Have you spoken to your landlord about him putting CH in?

In our last rented house we did, in the end we agreed to go 50/50 on the cost!

Where we live now, it was already in... Thank God!

Hi Stuart,

Yeah the subject has been broached a few times & he thinks we'll pay for it but he can think again, last year we brought 2 x 2m Rads, that look like C/H rads but run off electricity, they cost 7 cents per KW per hour to run & they're 2KW each, so 15 cents(Cypriot) an hour to run & we just had them on when we were in the house, but this year we brought a 12kw wood burner from Thermodynamics & have that running when were in... its fantastic

Must have gone thru 2 loads of wood already but as we get the 'Heating allowence' I'm not worried as that will cover the cost of wood this winter

We still have 2 oil filled rads down stairs in the main bedrooms (reverse living) but only on for 2 hours a day Don't use one of our Elec Rads but have the other on just to take the chill off the living area for when we get in, then the wood burner goes on, rad goes off

I'm not willing to pay thousands out just so others can benifit after we move house this year Don't know where yet but the other half wants to move

Pete

Plummeting temperatures and cold blasts of wind mean few will escape the cold in Cyprus this weekend.

The Met Office have forecast temperatures of 0oC again in Nicosia tonight ( 12th Jan ) and -6oC in the mountains.

The cold weather front is blowing in from Siberia.

Frost is forecast inland and on the coasts and there is a chance of snow in the Troodos mountains.

The resorts of Ayia Napa and Protaras will feel unusually cold temperatures tonight ( 12th Jan ) with the mercury hitting just 2oC.

The weather is expected to improve on Tuesday, but forecasters say the island can expect rain showers mid-week.

With the winter here, at-risk groups are being reminded to get a vaccination against flu.

The jab is available at all pharmacies in Cyprus and costs range from €6.50- €7.80 (CYP 3.75 to CYP 4.50).

Groups vulnerable to flu include people aged over 65 and young children who have asthma.

you only done yesterday !!

I had mine on for a month at least ...

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Whats a mattress reviver ? tell me ,, tell me ....

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

I like the look of that ! ..
I bet its nice and warm
do you sell them in the shop ?

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Whilst the optimist and the pessimist argued that the whisky glass was either half full
or half empty ? .
I drank it .....
The opportunist..

Oh, Tilly - reminds me of my Northern Nights mattress topper that I left in the UK

You should bring some of those revivers into the shop - I'd have one, definitely

Jean