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Jessica Rath's avatar

I hate the cold and really feel for you. I hope you can get straw for the piggies. Hang in there.

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Ben Green's avatar

Thank you! It gets better every year. One day it will be quite nice :)

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Jack McNulty's avatar

Somehow, you words this morning sparked a genuine curiosity about your shower project... Has that been put on hold until the Spring arrives, or are the showers now operational?

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Ben Green's avatar

Half way between the two. The heating is going to be integrated with the big winter project -the tomato house.

Call and a catch up soon?

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Jack McNulty's avatar

Yep…I will set something up this week…

Are you using new showerheads or the old ones? This makes a difference, because old showerheads have been known to carry such nasties as legionnaires disease - nasty stuff…

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Ben Green's avatar

I'll put up signs "don't drink the shower water"

I hope I can stop people licking each other.... ewwww!

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Sara Dawn's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂

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Kaja's avatar

We have a few tons of straw at our farm that we don‘t use/need anymore as we have moved our horses onto fancy „Waldboden“ for sleeping.

You could have it all for free, but I don’t know how far away you are from the Swiss border?

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Ben Green's avatar

sadly, too far. About 5 hours :)

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Kaja's avatar

Crap :-(

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Ben Green's avatar

Yeah, that would have been lovely. But the farm place did let me get a bale on Rechnung. Happy pigs (when thez deliver later this week) and something fun for future Ben :)

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Tom Green's avatar

What about a liberal bead of silicone down the drafty joints? Quick, easy, relatively cheap and super effective... I'll send you a box if you like?

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Ben Green's avatar

I was wondering about silicone as a solution. I think I could use it where the panes are mostly firmly in place, but I think some of them need something a bit more structural as well. What do you reckon?

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Tom Green's avatar

Sticky as can be and will still 100% cure in big gaps!! And comes in colours!!!

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Ben Green's avatar

I'd take a box of that! ☺️

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