A bumpy couple of days, but things seem to be sorting themselves out a bit more now. Our rented house isn’t delivering a fond farewell, with a broken washing machine and running out of oil for the Aga being recent highlights.
Thankfully I got some more kerosene from the incredibly nice and helpful people at Regional Oil in Mungret on the way back from work today, so we should have a warm kitchen again tomorrow.
The landlord has arranged for a new (yes, I suspect ‘different’ might be a better description) washing machine to arrive tomorrow, which would be great if it happened.
I wasn’t able to get hold of the builder today, so hopefully that’s because he was so busy putting the finishing touches to our house, but I fear not. Down to 19 days before we need to leave our current residence.
I did a bit more wiring work on the Bongo, so it now has this mini fan heater installed. I fitted a 1000W inverter behind the glove box and connected it directly to the leisure battery with some fairly beefy cables, so it can take a reasonable load before melting wires. Handily, the inverter’s fitted next to the recirculation vent for the air conditioning, so keeping it cool should be straightforward if the need ever arises.
The dehumidifier arrived today, so it’s getting a trial run in this cold house before moving onto smaller, more humid, pastures soon. I left it working away for a couple of hours in the hallway and it’d collected about 150ml of water, so it’s not doing badly. It’s a desiccant model, so should perform well in the cold, and it’s relatively quiet and energy-efficient compared with the compressor-based models.
Irritatingly, it doesn’t have a Relative Humidity display, so maybe I’ll deploy part of my weather station indoors to measure the levels for a while, as I haven’t got around to fixing the whole lot outside yet, but have at least wired up this humidity sensor to it over I2C.