What's your thermostat set at?

bride2be2006

Becles wrote:

I have mine at 20°C and it's on from 6am - 10.30pm. It's not on constantly as there's a thermostat in the hall that click it off and on as the temperatures rises and falls.

I've got Raynaud's so I'm in too much pain and my fingers and toes go purple if I get cold, so I can't reduce it anymore.

I have that too, its awful isnt it? It doesnt even have to be that cold sometimes and the circulation cuts off half way down my fingers!

I am guilty of liking a warm house, ours is set at 20 degrees and comes on for an hour in the morning then back on at 3pm for when DD comes home from school and goes off at 8pm (then we have gas fire on in living room)

I would like to know if it would work out cheaper to keep it on low all the time - has anyone done an experiment with this?

tanith

16 to 18 usually but its only on at 6am -7.30am and then if its really cold I put it on about 4.30pm and it goes off at 7pm and since we had the cavity wall insulatation put in in the summer I find most evenings so far we haven't needed to put it back on.. the house stays warm for ages .... I manage to resist putting it on during the day most days now I am home all the time but maybe when it gets really cold I will need to.. OH keeps ringing me up and saying its cold for gods sake put the heating on if you are cold... but so far I have managed to find some 'warming up strategy' if I have felt cold....

Certainly only ever leave it on low 15* at night if they forecast a cold -2 or lower night... why do people leave it on all night ? its really not good for you ... a cold bedroom is much healthier while you are sleeping.. a slightly open window even is excellent.. must admit though I just make sure the bedroom windows are open during the day for a couple of hours so that there is fresh air in there......

looby75

bride2be2006 wrote:

I would like to know if it would work out cheaper to keep it on low all the time - has anyone done an experiment with this?

I think it would depend on what kind of central heating system you have. We have an old "behind the fire boiler" kind, that heats up the water and stores it whether you use it or not. If the heating is on, but the thermostat says it's warm enough the water isn't pumped through the radiators, but the system still keeps heating up the water in the boiler. It would cost me a fortune to leave it on 24/7 and I would have to keep running off hot water from the system as it overheats if left on too long :eek: (I live in a council house but they council won't do anything about it as we are all supposed to be getting combi boilers in the next couple of years)

MatthewN

in*the*red wrote:

I understood that it was more efficient to have the boiler on 24hrs and control it by the thermostat than keep turning it on and off though???

Im not sure with this because as far as I understand the boiler does switch on and off. If you have it set to 18 then the sensor would detect it's 18 and switch it off and then when it gets to something like 16 it will switch back on. As far as I know it's more expensive to keep it on. I may be wrong though

bananakinz

I haven't got a clue - honestly!!
We've got a combi bolier, and the heating is set to its lowest, adjuster thingies (technical hey?!) on each rad in the house. The heating is on times come on at 5.45 (oh up at 6) then off at 7.30 (by then all running around getting ready for school) at the moment is comes back on at 6 and off at 8.30. If it gets cold during the day, I'll turn it on for an hour, to get the chill out of the air,

nidje

We live in a 3 bed detached and the heating is on 16 at the moment. We have it on for an hour in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening. I have been going to bed some nights at 9 o'clock so it could be time to turn it up a degree or 2 ...
N x

beer2006

MatthewN wrote:

Im not sure with this because as far as I understand the boiler does switch on and off. If you have it set to 18 then the sensor would detect it's 18 and switch it off and then when it gets to something like 16 it will switch back on. As far as I know it's more expensive to keep it on. I may be wrong though

The idea is to have the boiler on all the time and not to let the temp drop below a certain level (I use 15) as its supposed to take alot more energy to heat up the house from a lower temp, than just to keep it ticking over at a slightly higher temp.
It seems to work for me.

Serialdieter

boo hoo I have electric storage heaters and would so love gas... please can I have some. Sadly I don't live in an area that has gas.

chevalier

"boo hoo I have electric storage heaters and would so love gas... please can I have some. Sadly I don't live in an area that has gas."

If you have a big garden, have you thought about tanked calor gas? Obviously the installation would be quite a lot, but I think it would pay for iteself over time. You have to have a biggish garden though, because the tank has to be x feet from the house.

beer2006

Serialdieter wrote:

boo hoo I have electric storage heaters and would so love gas... please can I have some. Sadly I don't live in an area that has gas.

I have oil, thats why I insist we wear jumpers.

No gas here either, or mains sewerage