Measuring The Electricity We Use In Our House

Run For Your Lives The Aliens Are Attacking Us, oops, heh heh, wrong post. Anyway, this chart is for electricity. Some of the days we use a lot more electricity than others because our bathroom was very damp (due to a leak that is now fixed) so we used a dehumidifier which uses a lot of electricity. Here is the chart.

Measuring The Water We Use In Our House

I have been measuring water and electricity as well as heat that we use in our house and have made charts of the readings. The average amount of water we use is 276 litres. Some days we have used more water than other days and that is because we do things like have baths and showers or wash a big load of dishes. Here is the chart.

Measuring The Heat We Use In Our House

I have been checking the heat meter every day. The meter measures how much heat we use, dad showed me how to put all my numbers that I got from the meter every day into a chart.

The average amount of heat we used is 47 kWh(kilowatt-hours) and in the past week we have used an average of 38.5.

As you may notice from the chart, some days we used a lot more heat than others, the reason is that we have not yet hooked up the thermostats so we just turn the pump on and off by hand, which means that if we forget, it stays on and we use more heat. On the first reading I took we were trying to heat up and dry out the house. Here is the chart.

Planting Onions At The Allotments

Today we went to the polytunnel by the allotments and planted onion seeds in small pots. When they are big enough they will be transplanted to the community farm and the allotments. We planted seven different types of onions in fourteen pots. There are between 100 and 150 seeds per pot.

My Purse

I made this purse the other day, I am quite proud of it even though it can only be used for very light things because of the material.

My Motor

My dad and I made two motors while we were in Canada, the first one is very simple, the second one, not so much. I have labeled the pictures so have not written much here. there are four magnets that spin around on a circular piece of card board and as each magnet passes something called a reed switch they close the circuit which turns on a magnet on the other side which keeps it going.

Connecting Computer Plugs

Dad showed me how to wire a computer plug/socket for our house (on the right in the photo below). Then I did two others completely by myself! (The picture is of the one me and dad did.) The socket on the left is a TV plug (just in case we ever get one which I highly doubt).