On 01/09/2013 18:40, Tim Watts wrote:
On Saturday 31 August 2013 20:41 News wrote in uk.d-i-y:


This is not really a serious question, but your thoughts will be
interesting.

Vaguely house hunting, as you do, we came across a lovely 4 bed cottage,
a mile away from the nearest small town. The house has private water
and drainage, and no other services. No road between the house and
town. No gas, electricity or phone. It is lived in (not a holiday
home), current occupants use stoves, fires, bottled gas lamps, paraffin
lamps etc. Keep in mind no road, so no bulk deliveries of Calor gas or
oil. Sounds idyllic in one way, but a nightmare in another. Huge plot,
right on the coast. Isle of Mull.

How would you generate electricity, if you lived there, full time? Or
would you not bother?

I love Mull - been there a long time ago - but it is a brave man who lives
there - especially in winter!

A wind generator might actually be of some use there, coupled with a load of
batteries. Not for heavy power but rig the place up with some 12V caravan
type light fittings - flourescent strip style.

Presumably landrover accessible? You could move full sized propane bottles
yourself and run a proper cooker off those.

Looking at the agent's particulars only by boat, and of course
helicopter. A very high price for what might be idyllic in summer as the
pictures show but dire in winter. Only for the seriously hardy who want
few of the 21st century's essentials. None of the suggestions I have
seen so far make realistic and economic sense.


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Peter Crosland