What have done towards your prep?

[Lightspeed]

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I just cleaned out and relit the fire each morning, the back boiler only heats the water not the central heating unfortunately.

Once the fire got going I just opened the living room door and it gave the house a bit ambient heat. It wasn’t ideal but I’m glad I know that if the was an extended power cut I could keep the house habitable and run enough heat through the place to stop all the pipes bursting

I'm my old house, which was a modern build, but with an open fire and chimney, I found that when the fire was lit for a few days the chimney itself soaked up heat and acted as a kind of thermal store, re-radiating for many hours after the fire was out.