Is your heating ON or OFF?

YoungBlueEyes

Like Glenn Frey sang - the heat is on! Ner ner ner nee ner, ner ner ner ner ner, ba bam! Ner ner ner ner ner, ba ba bum da da dum 🎼

Langerhan

If you have central heating, does it tell you what the temperature is in each room, or do people here have thermometers dotted about the house? I don't have it, in case that wasn't obvious...

Cherryfudge

We just have a thermostat in the hall for reasons I forget. The heating installers did explain...

Rosa_Damascena

Cherryfudge said:

We just have a thermostat in the hall for reasons I forget. The heating installers did explain...

The coldest spot in the house?

After running the hearing for 2 days I am satisfied it is working so have switched it off now (turned the thermostat down to 14°C).

Topiary

Essex not yet .....aiming 15 Dec. Chilly but am running dehumidifier low setting too keep internal condensation levels bearable. Window vac also good first thing am. Lots of little things can help like wiping down bath and shower. Damp flannels keep in sealed container. Using extractor when cooking. Dish cloths in containers.  Covers over hot drinks.......Think steam!  Am a bit ocd about humidity

Rosa_Damascena

Topiary said:

Essex not yet .....aiming 15 Dec. Chilly but am running dehumidifier low setting too keep internal condensation levels bearable. Window vac also good first thing am. Lots of little things can help like wiping down bath and shower. Damp flannels keep in sealed container. Using extractor when cooking. Dish cloths in containers.  Covers over hot drinks.......Think steam!  Am a bit ocd about humidity

I'm surprised, the house seems to be warm this morning! Its gone from a damp 1930s property to a fully insulated one and now retains heat very well.

Singlespeeder

Rosa_Damascena said:

Cherryfudge said:

We just have a thermostat in the hall for reasons I forget. The heating installers did explain...

The coldest spot in the house?

I've never understood this. Our Thermostat was in an unheated entrance hall where the nearest radiator is 2 rooms away. We don't have radiators in a number of rooms including the kitchen, our bedroom, the hall, or landing or the middle (of three) living rooms though this has the log burner.

Why put it in an unheated room? it'll practically NEVER do its job of regulating the temperature in the heated rooms. Set it to 21C in the hall that's 12C..and remains at 12C irrespective of the temperature of the heated rooms.

Makes no sense.
I want it to turn the heating of when the heated rooms reach the desired temperature.

We've moved ours to the heated room where it now does it's job.

Cherryfudge

I had a quick read-up to answer my own question and apparently airflow comes into it, so does centrality. Our hall is to one side of the house so that bit probably doesn't apply. Air flow certainly does.

Our hall is heated and it's the hall radiator that provides heat right up to the top of the stairs and the landing, so I'm guessing that having the thermostat there helps the core temperature of the house (and also makes the heating kick in if I have the outside door open for more than a brief while).

wort

My thermostat is mobile and can be moved into different rooms, I usually keep it in the living room as that’s where I spend most time. I don’t want the bedrooms hot. If I’m in the kitchen cooking I’m not there for long, and if the oven is on it’s warming the room. 

I have clicked it on 17 for half an hour or so the last couple of early evenings and it’s not been bad to sit in there the rest of the night if I keep doors closed and wrap up under the throw.

Pixie_Cosmo

Stove lit when needed so far. WFH so I can't sit down being cold. New oodie thing working well though! Oil heater in bedroom timed to come on in the morning, on the cheap rate. 12 deg too cold really. Storage heaters still off :-)