Fed up already

[Dave Knight]

Well, as depressing as I sound, only seems 5 minutes since I attended many car shows this year. 
 

Bastarding winter just around the corner, fecking fire works going off, Rachel Thieves budget, Halloween, bonfire night and bastard Christmas and the challenges of an unheated garage. 💩💩. Anyone else a miserable sod? 
 

 

[Johnny Boy]

I have a lorry cab heater in my barn, so I can't grumble 😆

[Dave Knight]

The good old Eberspacher??

[Johnny Boy]

31 minutes ago, Dave Knight said:

The good old Eberspacher??

A cheapo chinese copy. You can get them as cheap as around £80, they work great. I run mine on household heating oil at around 48p a gallon.

[accord83]

I have a cheap Chinese diesel heater too, toasty, but bloody noisy on full, I'm about to run the exhaust through a domestic panel radiator as a silencer before it exits the wall, if it works I'll get recycled heat as well.

@Rally Pack 2000 James will be along soon to tell us how to run cheap air conditioning during winter!😁

Edited October 22, 2025 by accord83

[Dave Knight]

Interesting. I’d have to run 2 cable spools from my flat down to the garage. 
 

Don’t they import condensation due to cooling down and the dew point? Or are they on 24/7? 

[Ray]

you cant beat a proper Reznor gas heater for winter and air conditioning for the summer

you just dont wanna go home

[Johnny Boy]

2 hours ago, Dave Knight said:

Interesting. I’d have to run 2 cable spools from my flat down to the garage. 
 

Don’t they import condensation due to cooling down and the dew point? Or are they on 24/7? 

They work off 12v so you can use them in a garage with no electric. Just get a big second hand lorry battery, and a solar panel to charge it, or take the battery home to recharge it.

No condensation , as they blow just hot air.

[Dave Knight]

Could you DM me the info please. 👍

[Dave Knight]

Looked at these as well, don’t know much about them to be honest. 
 

https://www.autopyjama.com/permabag-engl/

 

[Johnny Boy]

This type can fit on a wall with a bracket

click here 

[Johnny Boy]

This type sits on the floor.

click here

[Dave Knight]

Thanks for the links bud, much appreciated. 👍

[accord83]

16 hours ago, Johnny Boy said:

This type sits on the floor.

click here

That's the one I have but with a 4 port heater pipe, I have it mounted on a shelf and power it from a 12v transformer plugged into the mains.

[Rally Pack 2000]

On 22/10/2025 at 06:39, Dave Knight said:

Well, as depressing as I sound, only seems 5 minutes since I attended many car shows this year. 
 

Bastarding winter just around the corner, fecking fire works going off, Rachel Thieves budget, Halloween, bonfire night and bastard Christmas and the challenges of an unheated garage. 💩💩. Anyone else a miserable sod? 
 

 

 

On 22/10/2025 at 23:53, accord83 said:

I have a cheap Chinese diesel heater too, toasty, but bloody noisy on full, I'm about to run the exhaust through a domestic panel radiator as a silencer before it exits the wall, if it works I'll get recycled heat as well.

@Rally Pack 2000 James will be along soon to tell us how to run cheap air conditioning during winter!😁

I can totally empathise guys. We have just come out of a really rough Winter. Some days I had to wear a long sleeve shirt the entire day!

Out of curiosity how do you mow when you do that white grass thing, or is it just coloured turf from the hardware?

[Dave Knight]

Bloody Aussies! 🦘🐨🇦🇺🤣

[accord83]

21 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

 

I can totally empathise guys. We have just come out of a really rough Winter. Some days I had to wear a long sleeve shirt the entire day!

Out of curiosity how do you mow when you do that white grass thing, or is it just coloured turf from the hardware?

Sod Off James! You're not helping at all!🤣 Its October and after a fortnight on holiday my grass has grown long enough to cut it for silage, but it's so wet it would clog my mower. I need to buy some ovine beasts like you Antipodeans have, are they amphibious?

[Miniliteman]

Well at least we can order a 50p bolt without having to pay 50 quid to get it delivered  😜

[Rally Pack 2000]

54 minutes ago, accord83 said:

Sod Off James! You're not helping at all!🤣 Its October and after a fortnight on holiday my grass has grown long enough to cut it for silage, but it's so wet it would clog my mower. I need to buy some ovine beasts like you Antipodeans have, are they amphibious?

There are water buffalo, they like to get soggy!

Seriously though the heat in Summer these days is literally Hellish. While our Winters may be mild we pay for it during Summer merely going outside becomes unbearable with the excessive heat. (We are pathetically the skin cancer capitol of the world of which I personally am a member, on the backs of my hands from driving) I wish I was there during this time truly. Interesting is that you guys take your cars off the road for the Winter and hibernate them and at the exact same time I do the same thing but for the opposite reasons. Taking it out into the Summer sun for a few hours is deadly to visors and spoilers and your door trims crinkle like cabbages. The Twincam says FU im not running in this! Sometimes when you simply open the door and standing in the doorway you can feel the life being sucked from you and no amount of watering will keep your garden alive and I wish for your chill and rain! I guess what goes around comes around.

[Rally Pack 2000]

23 minutes ago, Miniliteman said:

Well at least we can order a 50p bolt without having to pay 50 quid to get it delivered  😜

I blame Brexit, it wasn’t like that before but I have no idea why it would make any difference on Australian shipping but strangely it did!

[accord83]

20 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

There are water buffalo, they like to get soggy!

 

Aren't they like wildebeests? Those thick buggers that always cross a river at crocodile infested spot in the wild life films? I don't think think I want crocodiles attracted to the river in front of my house, Nah , sheep'll do, they only attract Welshmen.🤣🤣 (I'll run and hide now as I'm only a handful of miles from the border🤭)

[Rally Pack 2000]

On 26/10/2025 at 20:55, accord83 said:

Aren't they like wildebeests? Those thick buggers that always cross a river at crocodile infested spot in the wild life films? I don't think think I want crocodiles attracted to the river in front of my house, Nah , sheep'll do, they only attract Welshmen.🤣🤣 (I'll run and hide now as I'm only a handful of miles from the border🤭)

Yep thems the ones. The crocks only eat them and American tourists and thats only because they think that the "Do not swim signs" dont apply to them.

[accord83]

On 27/10/2025 at 12:45, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Yep thems the ones. The crocks only eat them and American tourists and thats only because they think that the "Do not swim signs" dont apply to them.

It's easy to mistake an American tourist for a wildebeest, similar size, the crocs just think they've taken their fur coat off to go swimming🤭

[Dave Knight]

I’d swap the cold and rain for Black Widows, Crocs and heat.
 

My knackered joints from years of Martial Arts are cooked. Here’s me in the morning getting up for work, once the joints have warmed up from the bedroom to the toilet. 

[BaileyMex]

18 hours ago, Dave Knight said:

I’d swap the cold and rain for Black Widows, Crocs and heat.
 

My knackered joints from years of Martial Arts are cooked. Here’s me in the morning getting up for work, once the joints have warmed up from the bedroom to the toilet. 

Same here, but from years of football, and still playing every week at the young age of 50 - I must be mad,