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i'm sorry you're in that situation. i don't feel so bad about my tin can anymore, at least it has sufficient heat. i hope it is far sooner than 2032 for you to get heat!

Downstairs is warm enough, although there are drafts in many different places. My fireplace flue is broken (open), so there's a constant downdraft of arctic air just like having a door wide open. Worse actually, since I think the air swirls in my chimney and gains force. All the windows in the house are crap like I described. Some don't even shut properly in the frames. They sit crooked with open gaps which fill with ice. All of my heat registers are placed (very stupidly) right under these god-awful windows, so the heat blows straight up any window dressings to meet the draft, instead of circulating.

I have a space heater but I'm afraid to sleep with it at night.

Oh, also because of the broken flue we can't light a fire. So that's a doubly whammy for losing heat, between no fires and having the flue wide open 24 hours a day.

i hope you can get that daggone flue fixed. that is dangerous. is there some way you can block off the fireplace? my tin can of course lacks a fireplace or woodstove, when i lost power during the last severe storm i really could have used a woodstove or chimney.

I don't like making phone calls, especially as a helpless woman needing man work done mid-winter. I know I'm gonna get ripped off, big time. Plus I haven't been able to have anyone in the house because I have Omicron. I might get TTY to do the phone calls for me and hope that by the time they come, we're recovered.

Isn't his real name Richard Alpert?

When I was at my most anxious stage and literally could not speak because of a combination of Autism & anxiety - I used software for Windows, text-to-speech software that is used by deaf people. Because I did this from 2009 until 2011, when Autism wasn't mainstream in the UK - I got told off by a relay operator, when I honestly & naively typed to them that I wasn't deaf, but Autistic (I had self-diagnosed in my mind, probably from 2008 or 2009).

Anyway, the operator was ableist & scolded me for misleading her, yet it was her ignorance of Autism that was causing the problem - not me being misleading. She was a legal adult & should have known.

Will Inspirobot become our new clergy, in the entertainment-space of tomorrow's dystopia?

^ I choose the hedge maze.

Heat sources are purposely placed under windows to
set up natural convection currents that will heat the
entire room, rather than just the immediate vicinity.

The excessive draft from your windows will probably
have a detrimental effect on this process.



Here is a video simulation of natural convection
currents caused when the hot air meets the cold air
from a window:

I use the same thing. It's text to speech with a third party doing the speaking for me. It's available as an accommodation for anyone who is hard of hearing but also people with other needs (speech impediments, mutism, or any communication disorder including phone phobia). I should use it more often but I always feel badly to inconvenience the person who needs to sit on hold for hours sometimes if I'm trying to reach a government group or medical place. Not sure if I'll do it for the fireplace people or not, because I'm going to need to get multiple quotes, I assume, and I'd like to judge their voice in terms of which one gets to come in my house.

Thank you Soliloquist. I guess in my case the open cracks around my window frames allow too much cold in. The windows aren't air tight so it's no contest against any possible heat, especially upstairs where heat barely reaches in the first place. It's a nice house but sorely in need of new windows and I've already replaced all of them once, years ago. Frustrating.

I think I was one of the first people using that software. I was on Windows XP at the time.

I think that this technology will progress inevitably to be suited to your desires, should more people become Autistic & use this software. Which is the trend at the moment (more people becoming Autistic).

I don't need special software. It's just an app from my phone company that anyone can access. You don't even need to apply or prove your disability. I like it because I get full transcripts with time stamps and they're legally binding.