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another unneeded thermostat needed
st999
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I am selling my house and because it is in Scotland I have to get a home report and energy report.
I have warm air heating with a separate gas boiler for heating the water in the hot water tank.
Gas heats the water, it rises by convection to the hot water tank and the cooler water is displaced downwards to the boiler where a thermostat senses the temperature of the returning water and turns off the gas as appropriate.
Also there is no immersion fitted so no electricity involved.
The whole system continues to work in a power failure.
So what is recommended in the energy report to save £24 per year?
If you said a thermostat fitted to the hot water cylinder you would win a prize.
How that would work I have no idea.
I won't bother mentioning what it says about solar PV and solar water heating, OK I will, £32 saving for hot water and £196 for electricity on a roof that has the ridge running north to south.
At least with the level of loft insulation in the loft that there is he didn't recommend increasing that.
And he didn't recommend ripping out the warm air heating and replacing it with radiators. He recommended a new warm air unit to save £43 a year.
I have warm air heating with a separate gas boiler for heating the water in the hot water tank.
Gas heats the water, it rises by convection to the hot water tank and the cooler water is displaced downwards to the boiler where a thermostat senses the temperature of the returning water and turns off the gas as appropriate.
Also there is no immersion fitted so no electricity involved.
The whole system continues to work in a power failure.
So what is recommended in the energy report to save £24 per year?
If you said a thermostat fitted to the hot water cylinder you would win a prize.
How that would work I have no idea.
I won't bother mentioning what it says about solar PV and solar water heating, OK I will, £32 saving for hot water and £196 for electricity on a roof that has the ridge running north to south.
At least with the level of loft insulation in the loft that there is he didn't recommend increasing that.
And he didn't recommend ripping out the warm air heating and replacing it with radiators. He recommended a new warm air unit to save £43 a year.
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