I think Patricia is hoping the start of February but not sure if she has an exact date. There's a lot of work to do in the meantime with contractors etc

They had heating but it would have been so costly with the big old boiler and so inefficient without insulation. I think we loose most of our heat through the walls though and there is little we can do about that.

Howdy 🎉 yes, its for minus 20 Celsius to plus 55 Celsius. Later we will move it on the west balcony into the shade 😊

We do but its impossible to heat the whole villa constantly with gas central heating so we select which rooms to heat

Thank you, feeling a little better today

Can you sell power back to the grid?

I think you are very clever!

Omg you are right… Lake Come 😂 i will use a black pencil

@@ValThe1st 😂😂😂

The log burner is working quite well, around 20 degrees now even with the kitchen door open. The issue was the wide opening on the fireplace, it was so big and smoke would hit the lintel and come into the room. Updraft was ok and would pull the draft and dirt into the room round the ceiling.

So impressed with your many skills, turning your hand to any problem which arrive. Well done Andrew for installing the chimney. Being claustrophobic myself I was super impressed! Log burner looking great. Love the look of a real fire and hopefully it will heat your room and make it cosy. Weather here in Scotland is freezing with v low temperatures continuing- so glad we have central heating and looking forward to a thaw. Thinking of you now having a warm room.

What about your central heating, doesn’t that work?

@@margaretlovelock7031 Yes its a new system but the Villa is big and costly to have the heating on all the time plus the radiators in the reading room are connected to the ground floor apartment so we need to heat that if we have the radiators on in the reading room

@@margaretrollo4114 It’s not normal to fit a metal plate. Plasterboard is non combustible and a metal plate would just absorb the heat and would not insulate. We have watched many videos about this.

@@irenehopkinson807 It’s not normal to fit a metal plate. Plasterboard is non combustible and a metal plate would just absorb the heat and would not insulate. We have watched many videos about this.

@VillaMandarosa I think the ones I've watched had metal plate with non combustible insulation above it

We've made a bit more room inside for them and they have a small perch but we are going to build a new coop ourselves with a covered area, and storage.

@@maggiegray1698 Better with no harness and good life insurance 🤣🤣

@@maggiegray1698 it’s a plug and play solar system but still tricky on the roof 🤗

No, just for eggs and we have had 4 already!

lol not names yet, I was thinking Miss Shashlik, Miss Tikka and Miss Masala

@@VillaMandarosa oeo oei jij vernoemt ze naar gerechten hihihi niet opeten he

Plenty of pasta and even some leftover as a special treat for Rocky and no names yet as I can't tell the difference between them!

Happy New Year all, the feathers are clipped but the can still jump and fly a little bit. I think Patricia is just doing the plans currently

The case is ok its around 10 sq meters but agree the house is too small although they all go inside at night no problem

I think that they were sold a Bantam house not a chicken coop. 😅😂😅

It said that it was too smalll whilst he was making it.

They all have to be able to Perch in order to sleep. It’s guanciale not guanciole that is used learn the correct pronunciation please. I’ve been here 55 years and you must make an effort to learn Italian. You should have had the chickens wings clipped a little bit so that they couldn’t fly up. You should have learned more about keeping chickens before getting them.

you too 🎉

we do! although I cannot tell which is which, they all look the same