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Gas fires in Bedrooms / upstairs rooms?
On 23/02/2018 22:30, wrote:
On Friday, 23 February 2018 20:26:17 UTC, Max Demian wrote:
Only modern namby-pambies would leave the gas fire on when they are in
bed. Bung another blanket on.
Just been reading a book about post-war working-class housing, and it suggests that a cottage can have a fireplace in one bedroom for use as a sick-room.
The other bedroom does without.
I can't remember the actual recommended temperatures for rooms (which were in deg. Fahr.) but they were certainly a lot more bracing than we'd expect today.
"Sitting down" temperatures were recommended to be a minimum of 65°F,
similar to modern recommendations of 18°C as a minimum - though I doubt
that the people who recommend this would put up with it. 70°F was always
reckoned to be a lot more agreeable, equivalent to 21°C.
Actually these were never considered to be needed in bedrooms, which
would usually be unheated.
Many houses up to WW2 had fireplaces in all the bedrooms, though I
expect only people with servants would have used them, and then only
when dressing in the morning. When I was young it was rumoured that
fires would be lit if anyone got sick, but I guess I never got sick enough.
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Max Demian
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