What's a hot press?

[Dannyparty92]

What is a hot press?

 

[Barry98]

front page of the guardian ? new york times ?

 

[Dannyparty92]

Haha thanks! In relation to plumbing?

 

[Barry98]

do you mean the gun for fittings or the storage tank

 

[Dannyparty92]

I don't know what a hot press is? That's why I'm asking lol.

 

[Dannyparty92]

I'm assuming the storage tank?

 

[Barry98]

what you mean you dont know whats it in relation to

 

[nowucit]

Do you mean hot press moulding

 

[ecowarm]

Hot press Scottish or Northern Irish for airing cupboard

 

[nowucit]

Hot press Scottish or Northern Irish for airing cupboard

Learning all the time :yes:

 

[Dannyparty92]

Aw right because I see people on the forum mentioning hot press. And I didn't know what is was.

 

[Barry98]

i think then your looking at the gun/fittings

 

[Barry98]

show us a link

 

[Dannyparty92]

It's on a thread called back circulation on the oil and solid fuel forum I think it's the hot water cylinder?

 

[kay-jay]

just an alternative name for an airing/cylinder cupboard

 

[Dotty]

Confused me when i moved over here. Eco and Kay Jay are spot on, Hot press is an airing cupboard.

 

[dancinplumba]

wots an airing cupboard ??

 

[kay-jay]

Its where you attempt to break the world record for jamming as many towels in a confined space just before the plumber comes.

 

[Barry98]

wots an airing cupboard ??

The place you generally find your storage tank

 

[Dotty]

wots an airing cupboard ??

it's wher you hide your jazz mags!

 

[Barry98]

Jazz , some banging tunes

 

[Dannyparty92]

Thank you everyone much appreciated .

 

[Best]

(duplicated)

 

[Best]

Yea, - "hot press" is just one of many terms that you just grow up with & never think about why it is called that.
Think it is that Scottish / Northern Ireland link with language & phrases. Another word I notice used over here is "roofspace" often, instead of "attic".

 

[R1CKY]

The place you generally find your storage tank

Now more commonly known as "the combi cupboard".

 

[Bunker]

I didnt know that either, every day's a school day ;-)

 

[Kyle87]

Plenty of other ones from Ireland to scratch your head over....

Topper- pencil sharpener
Shellykabookie- what kids call snails
Santy- Santa
Yoke- thing
Bulmers- magners
Opel- vauxhall

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

Yea, - "hot press" is just one of many terms that you just grow up with & never think about why it is called that.
Think it is that Scottish / Northern Ireland link with language & phrases. Another word I notice used over here is "roofspace" often, instead of "attic".

or loft you posh gits its a attic

 

[Bunker]

Tree fellers - lumberjacks/ three men

 

[Ray Stafford]

Another definition of a hot press.

Back in the days when the navy was manned partly by pressgang, lots of essential personnel carried a document called a "protection" - which exempted them from naval service. It was designed to protect essential dockyard workers, ferrymen, pilots etc from being taken from valuable work to man ships.

If the need for sailors was desperately urgent, the admiralty could authorise a "hot press" which temporarily cancelled all protections, so anyone could be taken by the pressgang, even those with protections.

As soon as the order became known, virtually the entire male population of Portsmouth would hide in cellars, or leg it out into the countryside. Presumably the same in other naval towns.

pointless fact of the day!

 

[WHPES]

Grandad was in the Merchant Navy and they used to have numerous nautical sayings I remember:

Shipshape - everything fastened down tidily or put away ready for putting out to sea
knock seven bells out of - beat (seven strikes of the bell were rung on ship prior to a flogging as punishment)
room to swing a cat - (cat o' nine tails was the whip used for flogging)

Bit like here in Yorkshire

Trap / bog - WC
bait - lunch
use of "while" meaning "until", in for example "we'll not be back while six"
owt - anything
nowt - nothing

 

[Best]

Have just looked up the word " Press " in Scottish/Ulster Scots & it means " a large wall cupboard ". Hence Hotpress is a hot cupboard.
This thread has got me interested in the Scottish words & phrases i use & hear everyday. Very funny to read.

 

[WHPES]

A "linen press" is a term given to a tall cupboard used for storing bedding etc.

 

[Best]

A "linen press" is a term given to a tall cupboard used for storing bedding etc.

I had forgot that one, - we use that term in N.I. also, more from old people though & sounds a bit posh!
The " Owt " & " Nowt " meaning anything & nothing words, we do use, especially the Nowt word, but " While " meaning "Until" is strange! :smile:

 

[tamz]

A press is a cupboard (as in a big one) so the hot press is the hot cupboard (where the cylinder is).
It is a dying term in Scotland. My mother and people of her generation used it all the time but i never do although i know what it means.