Heating timed or on all day low???

zzzLazyDaisy

Re the conservatory - would it be possible to hang heavy curtains across the divide between the conservatory and the lounge? This would help to keep the conservatory separate from the rest of the house, and help with the heating bills.

mrsr

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Re the conservatory - would it be possible to hang heavy curtains across the divide between the conservatory and the lounge? This would help to keep the conservatory separate from the rest of the house, and help with the heating bills.

This is what i do we have taken the doors out between conservatory and dinning room it does help

KimYeovil

Why not use neither method - just switch it on and off as you like? Having it on an automatic timer twice daily can be unnecessarily wasteful.

Money_maker

Cardew wrote: »

Similarly with heating, the answer depends on how low the temperature is set when on constantly, how high when timed, how long on timed - and other factors like the insulation of your house.

e.g. temp set at 10C on constantly will be cheaper than timed for 22 hours a day at 28C.

This is exactly right. We have our heating on constant - 18 deg at the mo, 19 deg once it gets real parky. Have a little one so unable to keep it off during the day but helps keep the house comfortable and the washing dry! MIL, however, gets hers whacked up to 26/27 deg when SIL visits so all depends on what yours is set on.

Read somewhere the other day about 21 deg being ideal but this could have been for the elderly as we'd get way too hot with this.

What is yours set on OP?

macman

Where did this myth come from that babies and small children need the heating on 24/7?
I'm sure that any health professional will tell you otherwise.
At the risk of turning this into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, I grew up in a house without any central heating until I was about 15, and I seem to have survived without any ill-effects.
And 26-27C is just insanely hot.

emmaanddave

Wow thanks for all your thought provoking replies!
We usually do have our heating on timed at 18-20c for 11/2 hrs in morning and from 4:30pm in the afternoon until around 10pm. We would override it if we were cold and the kids were at home.

Someone else mentioned a curtain cos even if it is a big space to cover in the long run we would feel warmer in the evening and need less heating time on I guess!

It is a typical unanswerable question but just wondered if anyone had notcied a difference in cost when leaving it on low all day. It does make sense to only have heating on when needed but someone said that your boiler will work harder when oin times as it will take longer to heat up the place when switched on. :os

nannasue60

Only just switched to timed rather than on low all day so i'm not sure of the cost difference as yet. i'm hoping it will be a bit cheaper as the idea is to save some money.

Flibertigibit

macman wrote: »

Where did this myth come from that babies and small children need the heating on 24/7?
I'm sure that any health professional will tell you otherwise.
At the risk of turning this into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, I grew up in a house without any central heating until I was about 15, and I seem to have survived without any ill-effects.
And 26-27C is just insanely hot.

Couldn't agree more! When I had three young children we lived in a big old Victorian house with no heating other than an Aga in the kitchen and a fire in the lounge. The idea of having to heat the bedrooms for the children's sake wouldn't have occurred to me, even though some mornings there was frost on the inside of the windows. And no, I'm not going back to the dark ages, only the 1970s, and yes, they all grew up healthy and strong! Today's children are way too pampered in every way, and not only them, but plenty of adults, think they should just have the heating as high as they like and walk round in t-shirts in December - ridiculous!

victor2

With a well insulated house, the temperature during the day won't drop an awful lot even if the heating off.
My heating was set to go off at 8am and come on at 5pm through most of last winter. When the outside temperature barely rose above zero all day, the inside temperature only dropped to 15C. Switching the gas fired central heating on and setting the temperature to 17 cost less than 50p per day extra in gas on the coldest days, but I could see no benefit, so couldn't justify the 50p.

nannasue60

Nice to have some actual numbers Victor2 and 50p a day adds up over the winter. Will have to see if i can make do with jumpers and set the thermostat lower. I think i've just used to having it on when probably don't need it.