Have you turned your heating off yet?
Discussion
98elise said:
Comfort is partly conditioning.
It's currently 14.5 in my living room, but bright outside so I've not put the heating on again. I can slightly feel it on my feet but that's it. I don't think our house has been above 16 this winter and it's been fine.
Central heating is a relatively new thing, so kids are fine with colder temps. Our childhood home didn't have central heating until I was about 5.
I have no doubt this is true, we are just fortunate that we can afford to have the heating set higher and not have to worry about paying the bill.It's currently 14.5 in my living room, but bright outside so I've not put the heating on again. I can slightly feel it on my feet but that's it. I don't think our house has been above 16 this winter and it's been fine.
Central heating is a relatively new thing, so kids are fine with colder temps. Our childhood home didn't have central heating until I was about 5.
Edited by 98elise on Monday 20th February 09:56
Edited by 98elise on Monday 20th February 09:58
Sure, I could probably save £100pm on gas in the winter months if we set the temp much lower but for me, that compromise is not worth it to me. Our heating came on again this morning for an hour and will probably be on this evening for an hour or so.
Its still not warm enough once the sun goes down to turn the heating off in the morning and evening.
I have reduced the timings on the thermostat today.
Octopus have handily kept my DD at £120 all winter and the account is still in profit. Should be a nice surplus ready for what next winter brings.
I have reduced the timings on the thermostat today.
Octopus have handily kept my DD at £120 all winter and the account is still in profit. Should be a nice surplus ready for what next winter brings.
Our lounge is little used at the moment as O/H is in hospital and I'm in my office upstairs all day. When I visited her yesterday it was sweltering in her room and one of the nurses asked if I was OK as I was rather flushed (I'm going to take a thermometer in today).
Our lounge, when I returned home, was 12C and perfectly comfortable. Have I turned into a lizard?
Our lounge, when I returned home, was 12C and perfectly comfortable. Have I turned into a lizard?
I used to leave the heating on the EvoHome thermostat year-round. Then last year when the prices started going up I turned it off at the start of May and back on towards the end of October.
Over that period in 2021 we used 3200kwh. Over that period in 2022 we used 400kwh (which is just the hot water demand). That’s about £280 saved, which may or may not be worth it to some.
Anyway, I turned ours off yesterday and it’s about 16 degrees in most rooms at the moment. We’ll see if the wife starts complaining….
Over that period in 2021 we used 3200kwh. Over that period in 2022 we used 400kwh (which is just the hot water demand). That’s about £280 saved, which may or may not be worth it to some.
Anyway, I turned ours off yesterday and it’s about 16 degrees in most rooms at the moment. We’ll see if the wife starts complaining….
Riley Blue said:
Our lounge is little used at the moment as O/H is in hospital and I'm in my office upstairs all day. When I visited her yesterday it was sweltering in her room and one of the nurses asked if I was OK as I was rather flushed (I'm going to take a thermometer in today).
Our lounge, when I returned home, was 12C and perfectly comfortable. Have I turned into a lizard?
No, I'd agree. Too many places are too warm. Shops, restaurants, and hotel rooms especially. Our heating is never "switched off", but the (Hive) thermostat in the lounge is set to 9.5°c so it never actually calls for any heat. It's showing 13.2°c now, and yesterday I had the front and back doors open while I did some bicycle maintenance on the drive.Our lounge, when I returned home, was 12C and perfectly comfortable. Have I turned into a lizard?
If I feel cold, or I know I'm having visitors around, the heating will comfortably give me an extra 1°c an hour if I need it, and is easily achieved by cranking the desired temperature up on the thermostat. We've only used it a couple of times this year, and I don't think our lounge temp has gone much above 14°c. Most of our gas use is the hot water (twice a day for 15 minutes, plus a half hour "boost" when one of us runs a bath) and cooking on the hob.
“Off” for me on my nest thermostat is one setting of 13c at 22:00 this time of year, so if i feel i want some heat i can turn it up and it turns itself “off” at 22:00 if i forgetti turn it down again. Actual off mode will be switched to next month.
Most times I don’t touch it and it doesn’t come on this time of year as solar gain can add a couple of degrees throughout the day, rain/cloud, like today, is testing me
Most times I don’t touch it and it doesn’t come on this time of year as solar gain can add a couple of degrees throughout the day, rain/cloud, like today, is testing me
sherman said:
Its still not warm enough once the sun goes down to turn the heating off in the morning and evening.
I have reduced the timings on the thermostat today.
Octopus have handily kept my DD at £120 all winter and the account is still in profit. Should be a nice surplus ready for what next winter brings.
We've not had our heating on at all for the past few days (in Kent). We stuck it on for an hour this morning because it was a little colder, but that should be it. Looking at the month ahead it's going to stay off.I have reduced the timings on the thermostat today.
Octopus have handily kept my DD at £120 all winter and the account is still in profit. Should be a nice surplus ready for what next winter brings.
We've been in a rental house while ours gets renovated. Our house hasn't been heated since January but the builders have been using leccy-this is where the high standing charges are a bit miffing. In the rental we're still having the heating on in the evening for a bit-it's been reasonably mild in Cumbria the last few weeks.
The rental has pretty piss poor insulation and radiators in random and illogical places. Not a single exterior facing window has a radiator under it and what radiators there are are single panel so the place takes a bit just to feel warm. I'm confident my wife alone it responsible for 50-75% of our heating bill e.g. heating the full house when she's WFH and only here home, putting the heating on for half an hour here and there to 'take the edge off' and after the heating has been off for a few hours putting it on for an hour 'in case the kids are cold'.
I'll be giving the landlord the meter reading when we move out next week for our two month stay. I'm expecting between £600-£800 for two months.
The rental has pretty piss poor insulation and radiators in random and illogical places. Not a single exterior facing window has a radiator under it and what radiators there are are single panel so the place takes a bit just to feel warm. I'm confident my wife alone it responsible for 50-75% of our heating bill e.g. heating the full house when she's WFH and only here home, putting the heating on for half an hour here and there to 'take the edge off' and after the heating has been off for a few hours putting it on for an hour 'in case the kids are cold'.
I'll be giving the landlord the meter reading when we move out next week for our two month stay. I'm expecting between £600-£800 for two months.
a311 said:
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Not a single exterior facing window has a radiator under it and what radiators there are are single panel so the place takes a bit just to feel warm.
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Why would you want a radiator under a window? A large amount of the heat ends up going out the window, or into the exterior wall anyway.Not a single exterior facing window has a radiator under it and what radiators there are are single panel so the place takes a bit just to feel warm.
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Given the amount of comments about low temperatures, I wonder how many of those people have accurate thermometers?
We used to have a 1960's 'Wimpey nofines' house (poured concrete construction) and even when the temperature was sub zero outside, the inside temperature remained around 17 degs. C for most of the time.
Our current property rarely drops below 17/18 over night.
So those people reporting 14 to 16 degrees, either your thermometer is inaccurate, or your property is very poorly insulated?
We used to have a 1960's 'Wimpey nofines' house (poured concrete construction) and even when the temperature was sub zero outside, the inside temperature remained around 17 degs. C for most of the time.
Our current property rarely drops below 17/18 over night.
So those people reporting 14 to 16 degrees, either your thermometer is inaccurate, or your property is very poorly insulated?
TonyRPH said:
a311 said:
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Not a single exterior facing window has a radiator under it and what radiators there are are single panel so the place takes a bit just to feel warm.
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Why would you want a radiator under a window? A large amount of the heat ends up going out the window, or into the exterior wall anyway.Not a single exterior facing window has a radiator under it and what radiators there are are single panel so the place takes a bit just to feel warm.
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It prevents cold currents (hot air combats the cold air from the window) , and radiators should be in the coldest part of the room.
Edited by 98elise on Wednesday 5th April 16:16
TonyRPH said:
Given the amount of comments about low temperatures, I wonder how many of those people have accurate thermometers?
We used to have a 1960's 'Wimpey nofines' house (poured concrete construction) and even when the temperature was sub zero outside, the inside temperature remained around 17 degs. C for most of the time.
Our current property rarely drops below 17/18 over night.
So those people reporting 14 to 16 degrees, either your thermometer is inaccurate, or your property is very poorly insulated?
I'm in a 1969 Wates duplex. Old double glazing, no insulation and some thin stuff left over from the 70s in the loft.We used to have a 1960's 'Wimpey nofines' house (poured concrete construction) and even when the temperature was sub zero outside, the inside temperature remained around 17 degs. C for most of the time.
Our current property rarely drops below 17/18 over night.
So those people reporting 14 to 16 degrees, either your thermometer is inaccurate, or your property is very poorly insulated?
I was cold in here around 9am today, Hive showing 14c, I've no idea how anyone can have that as their go to temp unless they are constantly working out, or hoovering.
I use an electric throw blanket if I'm just watching telly or using the computer.
Anyway I put all my warm stuff on to go to the station only to find it's warmer outside
This place is like a fridge, at least it's comfy when it does get to 30c or higher outside.
In the cold snap, December, I'd get home to 8c in the lounge and 5c in the bedroom.
New boiler would take about 4 hours of constantly on to get the lounge to 19c.
Turn it off at bedtime only to wake up frozen in the morning and the lounge back down to 10c.
Insulation properties of a fisherman's net.
It's a rental, can't wait to move out....
........if I can afford to.
Trustmeimadoctor said:
Turned it down yesterday and turned it up again today 
I’m still using same time slots (6.30 am to 8.00 am and 4.00 pm to 7.00 pm)However I’m now down to 55 deg boiler flow temp with returns in the 35 deg to 38 deg range
I think I really need to range rate it down to 10 KWh to stop it short cycling (or increase the flow through the rads)
Edited by B'stard Child on Wednesday 5th April 17:55
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