keep the heating on all the time?

littlereddevil

I must be very cold as I always have mine at 25 degrees

Woby_Tide

crumbs, do you need sunglasses too?!

the_devil_made_me_do_it

black-saturn wrote:

My house is 16 degrees anyway even with the heating off.

I've got quite a cold house (I rent it). If I put the thermostat above 15c, it gets to warm. Maybe the thermostat is not reading correctly??

michael19_2

We got a new combi boiler installed last year. What temperatures do you have the actual boiler itself for both the water and the radiators.. ? and in response to this post, we tend to have our room temperature at 30 most evenings....but I am starting to wonder if this is because or boiler temperature is set wrongly....hope this made senseand someone can help me gifure this out.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I have a hot water tank which supplies the hot water. I can either have water only, or water and heating, which is not too great an idea, but it's what is installed.
The boiler has a thermostat on it, I have a thermostat on the wall and some other adjuster under my fire it's all abit confusing as to what I should be setting everything at.

Rikki

black-saturn wrote:

If I leave my heating on at night I wake up with a terrible sore throat in the morning. Wish I could though.

Its not on hot it just stops the house from getting too cold. If it goes on and off on the timer it would never get the house warm enough to be comfortable.

black-saturn

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote:

I've got quite a cold house (I rent it). If I put the thermostat above 15c, it gets to warm. Maybe the thermostat is not reading correctly??

Maybe it could be. I'm not that worried about it as long as I'm warm.

I also find that having the slow cooker on in the day takes the chill off the house (small house).

Cardew

There is some confusion here about what is meant by 'setting the temperature.'

The wall thermostat can, in many cases, be meaningless in terms of the temperature in other rooms in the house. Not only are they inaccurate but they are only sensing the temperature at that point and thus operating the heating. Many have them in the hall which most people do not have as warm as the living rooms.

The only way to measure room temperature is with a proper thermometer placed in the room.

Incidentally I doubt if many people will be happy sitting in a room with temperatures of 16c or 18c - 22/23c is more like a comfort zone.

tootles_2

We have thermometers in the living and bedroom, the thermostat is in the hall and I had to turn the hall radiator off as it turned the heating off before the living room got warm, the hall is very small....... We do not have thermostatic valves on the rads, again the landlord will not fit them and I am not paying to have them fitted. The boiler is set at 6 all year.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I've just turned the boiler thermostat down to 50c and I've turned the under the fire setting to inbetween min and max. I do have a gallileo thermometer in my front room. It's quite accurate as I paid a lot of money for it. I'll check the reading on it at different times during the day and see what it's reading. By the way, my 16c reading is coming from the hall thermostat, so I guess not really conclusive :rolleyes: