Eco button boiler

lbr102

I have pressed the eco button on our boiler - as it's called an Eco button it seemed a good idea! Can someone explain what it does please?

rhiwfield

lbr102 wrote: »

I have pressed the eco button on our boiler - as it's called an Eco button it seemed a good idea! Can someone explain what it does please?

Switches it off.

lbr102

rhiwfield wrote: »

Switches it off.

Are you sure? I can have the eco button on (lit up anyway) yet the heating is definitely still on. Or at least I switched it to on and it has warmed up in here in the past half hour!

happyin_devon

well the green eco button on my worcester condensing combi boiler thing does this,i think!


when pressed so its illuminated the water in combi is heated on demand,so when i turn hot water tap on,i have to wait for the hot water to come thro.

when im not using the eco button,the water is pre heated in boiler b4 it leaves to come to tap,using more energy.

or at least thats my understanding of it!:)

lbr102

happyin_devon wrote: »

well the green eco button on my worcester condensing combi boiler thing does this,i think!


when pressed so its illuminated the water in combi is heated on demand,so when i turn hot water tap on,i have to wait for the hot water to come thro.

when im not using the eco button,the water is pre heated in boiler b4 it leaves to come to tap,using more energy.

or at least thats my understanding of it!:)

Aaah OK. So the central heating is as normal I guess but if I go and run the tap it'll take time for water to run through warm I guess?

Does anyone know if it is worth using? Does it make much difference to bills?

rhiwfield

lbr102 wrote: »

Are you sure? I can have the eco button on (lit up anyway) yet the heating is definitely still on. Or at least I switched it to on and it has warmed up in here in the past half hour!

Sorry, should have a smiley on it.

lbr102

rhiwfield wrote: »

Sorry, should have a smiley on it.

I forgot the boiler heats the water too! I was too focussed on the fact that the house was so cold and I need to warm up!

happyin_devon

dont know re bills,but i didnt find it actually made that much differene to how quickly the hot water came thro,i tend to rinse dishes with the luke warm stuff,then run bowl of hot,but im not on a water meter i can see that i probably waste a bit of water by doing this.

tulip12

happyin_devon wrote: »

well the green eco button on my worcester condensing combi boiler thing does this,i think!


when pressed so its illuminated the water in combi is heated on demand,so when i turn hot water tap on,i have to wait for the hot water to come thro.

when im not using the eco button,the water is pre heated in boiler b4 it leaves to come to tap,using more energy.

or at least thats my understanding of it!:)

Yes this is correct, when the Eco button is not on the boiler continually heats a small tank of water to reduce the time it takes for hot water to reach your tap.

I put my Worcester Bosch boiler to Eco about a year ago, and have just used the analysis of my bills on the Scottish power web site. This shows an almost identical seasonal pattern of use other than our gas consumption has been reduced consistently. Hth.

zippychick

Hi

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thanks
Zip

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gas4you

It would help if you told us the make and model of your boiler. Eco buttons work differently on different boilers, depending on the manufacturers interpretation of 'eco'