Messages posted by : AllyG
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Ian,
I don't think that would be a very good idea. It's been here since 1300. I think it's a better idea to improve the insulation to help slow down global warming and improve the chances that there will still be some snow left when I want to go ski-ing. Ally |
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Rose,
You're very fortunate, it sounds like a lovely house. I'd better get back to working out how to improve the insulation in our (very old) house! Ally |
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Rose,
You can still insulate your ceiling, although you would lose a bit of head height and it is more difficult (you'd have to move the electrics for the lights etc.). I am thinking of doing this in one of our rooms where the sloping ceiling is against the rafters. They now sell insulated dry-lining plasterboard for fixing to walls and ceilings. Depending on whether you can work out where your rafters are, to fix to, you could attach it to your existing ceiling. You can glue it as well, but I'd be a bit worried it would fall down - plasterboard is quite heavy. The best thing would be to take down the existing ceiling, batten it out and start again, but it would be a messy, slow and expensive job. You wouldn't need to put 1 foot of insulation if you used the ultra insulation board, like celotex double R, which has twice the insulation value, so you only need half the depth. Anyway, for now, I've opted for the easier loft option, but I will have to do something about these other rooms. Dave Mac - what's so particularly bad about gondolas? Do they use masses of energy or what? Ally |
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Dave Mac,
32" is an incredible amount of insulation - nearly 3 feet! I should have said 3 houses though, not 2. One has been done 1 foot deep in the attic, with a 50% housing renovation grant (also had the house re-roofed and some new double glazed windows put in), and the other 2 are yet to be done with a 50% grant from our electricity company - and only 6" to add to the 4" we already had. The problem is we still want to be able to use the attics, and if we had 3 foot of insulation there'd be no storage space left. I think the cost is somewhere around £150 per house, after the grants. That's good going to pay yours off by April - I was thinking more like a couple of years to save enough to pay for ours. If we all do it, maybe there will still be some snow left for us to ski on in 20 years time. Ally |
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We've done several transfers with Altibus, and the ones we did you had to buy your return tickets ahead of time or you weren't allowed on the bus on the way back. Also, the last bus we took didn't say altibus or anything like it on it, and we nearly missed it, only I asked a French policeman what had happened to our bus, and he asked the driver for me, and it really was our bus (in camouflage!).
Other than those minor problems they were very good, and a reasonable price as well. Ally |
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Zwee,
My daughter and I are booked up for 3 days with them over October half-term. We are flying with Easyjet and staying in a hotel in Geneva for the night. We try not to fly, and we usually go by train instead, but this time it didn't work out by train. So I'm buying some more attic insulation for 2 houses under one of the government's 50% grant schemes, and hoping that this will save enough CO2 to 'pay' for our flights. I hope you have a good time in Tignes, Ally |
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Well,
I am most definitely me. And anyway, it's generally pretty easy to identify someone's writing style. Like, for example, if someone posing as me makes a bad spelling or grammatical error he/she is not me (unless I have a very bad case of flu or I get another of those really frightening letters from the taxman threatening me with penalties of £60 per day if I don't submit my tax return). Like that poor detective Monk, I simply can't survive knowing I have made a mistake, without correcting it. I also tend to write in essay style unless I'm in a dreadful hurry. And, to bring the subject back to ski-ing - I think it's pretty easy to identify someone by their ski-ing style. The one going straight down the hill at a breakneck speed is probably my younger daughter, and the person going very carefully in neat little zig-zags is probably me. Ally |
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Pablo,
If that's really you, would you mind going back to it? I can't spell J whatever it is, Ally |
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