If you’re at the stage of dreaming about a reno or exploring ideas, these small choices are a good place to start to warm your heart and set you up to truly enjoy winter indoors.
Imagine enduring the coming winter without your gorgeous gas heating, perfect pumpkin soup and hot showers before bed….actually, don’t! The mere idea is enough to make you shiver. Don’t risk freezing all through winter! There’s still time to sort some small changes that will keep the chill from coming inside. Here are a few easy home reno ideas that you can get up and running before the cold winds really start to blow.
SORT YOUR WATER: It can be easier to improve your enjoyment in lockdown life just by making sure the little luxuries are all sorted for winter. That means making sure you have instant hot water on tap at all times, and a good heating system. Maintenance matters! If you have creaky, unreliable hot water, and you want to make those ghastly mid-shower blasts of cold water a thing of the past, go for an instantaneous gas hot water system. Gas hot water gives you soul-warming hot showers before you snuggle into fresh PJs and head to bed, the chance to have a hot spa whenever you’re feeling the chill, or a daily soak in a beautiful bubble bath, even if the temperature is in the single digits.
WARMER, WARMER: What kind of warm winter is possible without a heating system? The best reno you could go for this year, with a whole lotta home time on the horizon, is a whole-house system you can control, and that you can use for hot and cold all year round. We like Natural Gas ducted heating, which allows you to set the temperature in different rooms (the bedroom for those chilly nights, or ease it off in the kitchen when you’re grilling up a storm!). And yes, they have those coveted cooling options for those hot summer months that will hit us next season when we want to kick back with an iced lemonade and chill watching Netflix. Check out ducted and hydronic heating systems and warm those cockles for now, but know you can cool them down when summer comes around (and we’re finally entertaining friends at our place again!).
THE GREAT (WARM) OUTDOORS: In winter, it’s tempting to shut the door against the world and stay under your doona, never venturing past your front door unless you have to. But now we’ve been sheltering inside for so long, staying inside has us bored to tears! So this winter, make the most of your outdoor spaces with simple reno ideas that’ll see you actually use them. Think about connecting to Natural Gas so your BBQ never runs low, expand your outdoor area with instant gas heating, and take the chill out of the water so you can keep using your pool all year round! If you only use your pool a few weeks a year, now’s a good time to investigate natural gas pool heating (and other offers on heaters, BBQs and more), since the beaches and public pools are closed.
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記者林辰彥／台北報導
中了彩券尤其是頭獎，千萬別高興過頭，一定要等到獎金到手，一切才是真實。7月27日開獎的威力彩有2注中頭獎，各可得15.6億元獎金，在還沒領到錢之前，仍只是一張列印的紙張。第4屆彩券就發生過2次上億頭獎中獎者逾期未領獎的情事。
這兩件破億頭獎未領取，都發生在2018年。第一件是2018年2月2日開在台東『金錢袋』彩券行的大樂透頭獎1.02億，在5月2日兌獎截止都沒與台灣彩券公司聯繫、領獎。
台灣彩券總經理蔡國基當時說：「先前曾去這家彩券行了解，位於台東市的彩券行，除了附近居民會來購買之外，還包括過年期間的許多觀光客，都有可能是這張頭獎的得主。」
第2次破億頭獎未領取，又發生在2018年，10月2日在基隆開出的大樂透，是在基隆「鋐昌投注站」開出1億的頭獎。台彩公司透過媒體公開尋找這位頭獎幸運兒，經過一週，中獎人仍未出現。最後在基隆舉辦「尋找大樂透億元頭獎中獎人」活動，總經理蔡國基沿街尋找頭獎中獎人，吸引許多民眾圍觀。
總經理蔡國基表示：「從彩券系統的投注紀錄來看，這位中獎人應該是『大樂透』的資深彩迷，這張中獎彩券共投注2組號碼，各用7個自選號碼進行包牌，單張總投注金額為700元。其中一組的7個自選號碼對中當期6個獎號，只有特別號沒對中，依「大樂透」的中獎方式，該組自選號碼對中1注頭獎，獨得1億元，另外6注對中參獎，每注各得3萬6103元，單張彩券總獎金1億00又21萬6618元。
