My gas and electric bills are very high.

aelitaman

TheSaint wrote: »

Fair enough - I see your point. But if you do not insulate the pipes and you do insulate the boiler in a box, you run the risk of the boiler not firing up because it is insulated, and your pipes freezing.

Maybe the answer is to do both.

Yes, I agree if the insulation box is build then insulate the pipes.

aelitaman

savemoney wrote: »

MY boiler is in garage and had fitted a frost thing on it. The pipes are all insulated and I dont recall in 3 years today I have lived there boiler has come on when its very cold accept when I allow it too

How do you know?

savemoney

Because I am near garage and can hear boiler on and I stay up most night until late or early morning as I am a bad sleeper

In fact boiler is on now but thats because CH is on.

I also have a thermometer in garage that record temperature its now freezing in there although very cold

Treaco

Hi our new boiler that we got in November of last year also has the frost control on it and I have heard it the odd time late on or in the middle of the night coming on for 5 mins, we have a 3 bedroom semi detached house and are on Websaver 1 with BG and our bills for 3 months from October 6th till 27th January were £136 for Gas and £185 for electricity and we had our heating on alot over the cold spell but the boiler is only up have way for heating and on eco for the water, this is the way the engineer that fitted ours told us to keep it. We also have a gadget in the livingroom that if it says it's 20degrees but we feel it's cold we press the button to put the heating up to 21degrees and when it gets to that it switches the heating off. We set our heating for about 8 hours a day but with the gadget if the heating is supposed to be on for four hours but the room temperature gets to 21 degrees before then the gadget automatically switches the boiler off, well worth the small extra bit it cost to get it as our gas bills are down on this time last year. Hope that makes sense

C_Mababejive

Just got quarterly bills...
Gas £167
elec £108



You simply cannot have heating on all day....put some clothes on and check your insulation.