Tuesday 7 January 2014
We seem to be making very little hot water. Even on a sunny day, the water only gets lukewarm. So I sneaked away from the plastering long enough to check out the water heater, and found that the cute little cypress trees that were about the height of the camper van when we moved in, have grown a bit.
The sun comes round to the south and gets stuck behind the newly-tall tree in front of the studio hut, below, stays behind trees all the way round to mid afternoon, and then remains obscured by the camper-van trees shown above. Very little light is falling on our water panel (end of the shed, above)
So we got all radical and Dave trimmed them back. Most of these are self-seeded, and will need to be kept under control if we're not going to live in a pine forest. It does seem a pity, but we selected the site for its openness to the south. And warm water is lovely!
We seem to be making very little hot water. Even on a sunny day, the water only gets lukewarm. So I sneaked away from the plastering long enough to check out the water heater, and found that the cute little cypress trees that were about the height of the camper van when we moved in, have grown a bit.
The sun comes round to the south and gets stuck behind the newly-tall tree in front of the studio hut, below, stays behind trees all the way round to mid afternoon, and then remains obscured by the camper-van trees shown above. Very little light is falling on our water panel (end of the shed, above)
So we got all radical and Dave trimmed them back. Most of these are self-seeded, and will need to be kept under control if we're not going to live in a pine forest. It does seem a pity, but we selected the site for its openness to the south. And warm water is lovely!
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