Call 105, How re-assuring, Or Not?

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Originally Posted by Neil

It depends how long it's off for. Some people have medical equipment at home that needs power. What about keeping older people warm with no electricity if it's off for a long time? They might just feel happy being reassured it's only going to be off an hour or two.

These days I am older folk, back in the 70's when strikes stopped electric, we either had gas or open fires to keep us warm, now we have central heating, that won't work without electrickery, health and safety devices that won't allow folk to stay warm even if left in the dark.
Because now we don't burn coal, even worse, now we can't burn gas without a fail safe that ensures electric controls it. So now no electric let your toes go cold.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Ma lights her gas oven to keep warm if she is in the kitchen. I her living room she has a gas fire....battery ignition...her stair lift has a battery reserve if the power goes off.
She boils water on the hob(no electric kettle for her)

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Less

These days I am older folk, back in the 70's when strikes stopped electric, we either had gas or open fires to keep us warm, now we have central heating, that won't work without electrickery, health and safety devices that won't allow folk to stay warm even if left in the dark.
Because now we don't burn coal, even worse, now we can't burn gas without a fail safe that ensures electric controls it. So now no electric let your toes go cold.

Many still have gas fires that don't need electrikery to work, we have 2. The sheltered housing on Wellington Court area of Accrington are to have gas installed soon. They only had electric central heating installed a few years ago but Hyndburn Homes must have realised the error of there was because it's so expensive to run. They won't be installing fires though so the whole area will still go cold in a power cut.

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Ma lights her gas oven to keep warm if she is in the kitchen. I her living room she has a gas fire....battery ignition...her stair lift has a battery reserve if the power goes off.
She boils water on the hob(no electric kettle for her)

Not efficient and left for too long could be dangerous, gas ovens are just that, gas ovens.
How much is your mother worth?
You only ever have one.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Ma lights her gas oven to keep warm if she is in the kitchen. I her living room she has a gas fire....battery ignition...her stair lift has a battery reserve if the power goes off.
She boils water on the hob(no electric kettle for her)

I always found it strange that a gas cooker doesn't need an exhaust flue for the burnt gasses but a gas fire does. Using the cooker to heat the room leaves you breathing in the products of combustion. Electric cookers are safer but I always preferred a gas hob

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Neil

It depends how long it's off for. Some people have medical equipment at home that needs power. What about keeping older people warm with no electricity if it's off for a long time? They might just feel happy being reassured it's only going to be off an hour or two.

Fair enough, its an individual choice and we made ours.

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Originally Posted by Neil

I always found it strange that a gas cooker doesn't need an exhaust flue for the burnt gasses but a gas fire does. Using the cooker to heat the room leaves you breathing in the products of combustion. Electric cookers are safer but I always preferred a gas hob

Google it.

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Ma lights her gas oven to keep warm if she is in the kitchen. I her living room she has a gas fire....battery ignition...her stair lift has a battery reserve if the power goes off.
She boils water on the hob(no electric kettle for her)

Be careful Margaret lighting a gas oven to keep warm as there must be adequate ventilation for a gas oven. Because it hasn't got a flue it can produce Carbon Monoxide.

[maxthecollie]

Metropolitan Tenants Organization » Deadly Dangers of Using the Stove for Heat

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Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Metropolitan Tenants Organization » Deadly Dangers of Using the Stove for Heat

Yep, and if we are going to get more power cuts due to lack of power stations, even more lives will be at risk when folk resort to having no alternative.
Our government obviously weighed the risks and hopes we have a mild winter, otherwise...

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Ma lights her gas oven to keep warm if she is in the kitchen. I her living room she has a gas fire....battery ignition...her stair lift has a battery reserve if the power goes off.
She boils water on the hob(no electric kettle for her)

So, we now know that lighting a gas oven is no alternative to freezing to death (after all carbon monoxide was used during the last world war), how are we going to look after ourselves, if we stick with government policy of...




... lets hope we don't have a very cold winter?