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Gas fires in Bedrooms / upstairs rooms?
On 25/02/2018 23:46, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:28:11 -0000, Max Demian
wrote:
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.
Why on earth would anyone have a number to allocate to what's
comfortable?* If you're not comfortable, turn more heat on.* It's a
personal preference ffs.
People determining housing policy, and 'engineers' installing central
heating have to have numbers to tout.
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Max Demian
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