Heating advice

12bdebt3

Hello,

I moved into my rented house in October. A new combi-boiler was fitted in June/July.

My heating is set to come on 5 times a day at a certain temperature each time, so when it goes colder inbetween times it automatically comes on to get it to the set temp.

I have searched the manual and there is nothing about turning the heating off at certain times it just tells you how to set the times and temperatures.

There is a switch on the boiler with 3 choices. Off, water and heating and water. If I switch it off overnight then I wake up freezing cold, I get up for work at around 6:00am.

I am wondering if anyone thinks the heating comes on too much and would cost me a lot of money?

I moved in a month ago today so I am going to check the meter readings when I go home to see how much 1kWh costs, dreading it.

aelitaman

In the summer months set the boiler to water
When you want the heating to come one set the boiler to water and heat. The only other control you may have on the boiler are dials to set the temp of the hot water and the temp of the water used for heating the rads. Set the hot water temp for the taps to the lowest setting if you can and then set the temp to the radiators to what you are comfortable with.

Then the manual you need to read is for the programmer on the wall or in the boiler. It is pretty standard to set the heating to come on 1 hour before you get up and turn off before you leave the house (rads stay hot for a while even if boiler is not on) then set the heating to come on 1 hour before you get home from work and to turn off 1 hour before you go to bed. If you timer has the ability to set different times for the weekend do what is best for you.

The above is valid if you TRV's and a programmable timer if you have a programmable thermostate then you need to turn the heating of for periods when you are out to a low temp and then raise the temp for when you are in the house.

12bdebt3

Summer will be very cheap for me then. I have already set the heating to the lowest setting on the boiler. It still only takes a few minutes for a room to heat up once the radiator turns on, do you advise I still put it on an hour before I need it?

aelitaman

No, you use it how you want to. If it takes 10mins to warm up you may want to set it to come on 10 mins before you get up and then not bother to set it to come on in the evening but turn it on manually when you come home and turn it off manually when you want to.

notbritishgas

arrontdep wrote: »

Hello,

I moved into my rented house in October. A new combi-boiler was fitted in June/July.

My heating is set to come on 5 times a day at a certain temperature each time, so when it goes colder inbetween times it automatically comes on to get it to the set temp.

I have searched the manual and there is nothing about turning the heating off at certain times it just tells you how to set the times and temperatures.

There is a switch on the boiler with 3 choices. Off, water and heating and water. If I switch it off overnight then I wake up freezing cold, I get up for work at around 6:00am.

I am wondering if anyone thinks the heating comes on too much and would cost me a lot of money?

I moved in a month ago today so I am going to check the meter readings when I go home to see how much 1kWh costs, dreading it.

All you have to do is set the temperature very low,eg 5degrees C, for the times you want the heating to be off eg overnight.
Also if you have a programmable thermostat some of them have a "holiday" setting where you can set how many hours or days you want the heating to be off, but commencing at the time you set it.

Owain_Moneysaver

arrontdep wrote: »

I moved into my rented house in October. A new combi-boiler was fitted in June/July.

Make and model of boiler and programmer/thermostat?