Warming up?

[scotty73]

I'm another one for water on the windows plus like Welly i use the rain x.

Corr I must have done it 18 years now.

[lozz]

Wouldn't it be nice to have a heated garage

it is, but the extra strain on C/h boiler render's it useless later on down the line.
and then after weighing up the running cost for an extra c/h rad its not worth it

[steve_earwig]

I don't think this wood burner would notice much

I don't mean keep it as cosy as you in your house, just above freezing. Obviously it would be sensible to provide extra insulation, that sort of thing.

[lozz]

Wood burner?

lucky you.. iwish ihad one of them right now..

im thinking of putting a storage heater in garage (electric/ the ones with bricks in)

[steve_earwig]

I have one in my garage, it's 3 phase. Buggered if I can afford to run it though

[lozz]

I have one in my garage, it's 3 phase. Buggered if I can afford to run it though

ah rite they expensive to run then. iwill scratch that off my idea list then.

imight make a woodburner I need to buy welder first

[jasper5]

Well guys, our 407 has a nice big crack in the screen, new windscreen being fitted tomorrow....now, my wife uses the luke warm water method on our car every frosty session....did this cause the crack?

Multi-million dollar question

[lozz]

ive never seen luke warm water crack a screen, (maybe it was weak to start with)

ihad a screen go on me about 4mth back on a ford ka
was on motorway near bury 60mph ish / no stone chip no nothing it just went ping

Autoglass wouidnt come out for 3 days car had to be recoverd

[Doggy]

I used to have a semi-integral garage. Wasn't heated as such but some of the heating pipework ran through it.
I can remember the outside temp display on my Omega showing 7 deg or so as I reversed out, then -4 a few minutes down the road.
Then some genius decided to convert it into a kitchen, so I'm back to scraping ice liek everyone else.

I have got a woodburner tho.

[lozz]

this is what im making

wood burner.jpg

[OllieNZ]

As a former windscreen fitter I dont know why people panic so much about a cracked windscreen. If it is outside the sweep of the wipers an not majorly delaminated it will still pass an mot. There is no safety issue other than "obscuring of vision" which means a plod can tell you to have it changed and really only applies to a crack that passes in front of the driver. You'd also be surprised how many cracks with seemingly no cause are caused by a tiny chip in the black band around the edge of the screen.

[lozz]

it acts as part of the cars structure.

iwouidnt cut corners with windscreens if they crack get another fitted.

stone chip is different most can be repaired with little or no cost .

[steve_earwig]

this is what im making

wood burner.jpg

That doesn't look the easiest thing to fabricate. The shape is kind of familiar, you're not going to do this with it are you?

[lozz]

this is what im making

wood burner.jpg

That doesn't look the easiest thing to fabricate. The shape is kind of familiar, you're not going to do this with it are you?

no. idont have an old riley to fit one in.

[jasper5]

As a former windscreen fitter I dont know why people panic so much about a cracked windscreen. If it is outside the sweep of the wipers an not majorly delaminated it will still pass an mot. There is no safety issue other than "obscuring of vision" which means a plod can tell you to have it changed and really only applies to a crack that passes in front of the driver. You'd also be surprised how many cracks with seemingly no cause are caused by a tiny chip in the black band around the edge of the screen.

Well, I for one wasn't panicking about a large crack in the screen, I've been in the car repair trade for 43 years so I'm familiar with all things car related.

I know exactly what caused the crack, there was a stone chip at the centre of the crack, my wife was driving up a very bumpy farm track.

I had smilies in my post so I was only teasing

I know one thing for sure, I visit Sweden quite often and see lots of cracked windcreens, obviously they have very cold winters, it must have something to do with it, surely?
If you go to a petrol station they keep buckets of de-icer with mops in a cabinet to clear your windows.