Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

In that case, I can clearly see that the flame is not blue and I would do something about it.

Mate of mine came within an ace of killing himself. He was testing an unvented gas heater that was temporarily in his main room in winter. It worked fine so since it was quite a cold day, left it running. His DiL rang him and when he didnt answer a couple of times when he was expected to, came around in person and found him unconscious. She is a senior nurse and knew what the problem was likely to be. Pure fluke that she happened to ring him then.

Took a long time to recover fully.

Well, we didn't have much automatically when I was a kid.

If that was true, why didn't everyone die with coal gas? That's CO before you even burn it.

See when you walk into a place and feel bad. Leave it. It's not rocket science.

CO is lighter than air, doesn't 'pool' in low places. The low land surrounding a lake with a volcanic-source CO2 accumulation can suddenly boil and burp up a cloud that covers the neighborhood.

CO, of course, WAS toxic, and 'head in the oven' suicides were known. That gas hasn't been considered safe for years; electric lights and electrical distribution systems came about a century ago: we still get 'natural gas' designating that the municipal gas supplies of today are NOT the old toxic mix. Coal gasification was abolished here in the 1930s.

I'm sure I posted more than that one line.

Yip, none of this pansy safety nonsense.

Impossible, you'd have sever difficulty breathing.

Only because our bodies are so f****ng stupid they breathe too much of it.

It isn't true at all.

We generate CO2 from exertion. There's no way we could encounter problems from lack of CO2.

You need a splitting maul, which is an axe with a wedged head, or a grenade, or a hydraulic log splitter.

Sharpness is not an asset, dimensions are.

Splitting gnarly logs is well nigh impossible

Easier to saw them

Not only is it true, but i got close enough to it to realize how easy it would be, when on a school visit to a brewery I put my head below the rim of a fermentation tank to smell the brew and got a lungful of pure CO2.

To breathe in and have it feel like you haven't, is extremely scary.

No - a wedge shaped maul is

Sounds like a felling axe rather than a splitting one

I mostly agree with all that TNP says but personally have not had a lot of success with a grenade. Splitting maul works best for me or, for very large diameter, rather than working my way around the edges I borrow a tractor mounted splitter - they are *fun*

But you noticed the problem and moved to somewhere with less of it, unlike the morons that died.

I got my younger friend who has more arteries and lungs to help me split some big stuff.

Using a grenade and a big sledge and my occasional chainsaw input.

I had one huge log left over that i stuck on the fire last weekend to at least start burning it, and went to bed with it barely smouldering. The next morning it was just a pile of ash.

No, they are not legally allowed to cut off your electricity, since you would have no fridge which is a human right.

They didn't notice the letters were returned as "no such address"?

You could always ask your two next door neighbours to supply you with an extension lead. Then you'd have 3 phases.

Why would that need hot water? I've always used the cold tap, even when a hot one is available. Why wait for the heat to get through the pipe? Soap dissolves at any temperature.

And what?!? Why would I do that in the 21st century?

No.

They couldn't. The entire valley was full with CO2, for miles.

Did you read the articles?