Heating Advice - Always on low or blast on high?

bengasman

Cardew wrote: »

It would also help if you didn't litter MSE with provocative posts - 'rubbish - nonsense etc - you are just showing yourself up!

All it shows, is that I know what I am on about, and you have no more than a vague idea; partially right, but significantly flawed for other parts, which makes the total response a load of rubbish.

victor2

All it shows, IMO, is that people have different opinions and different ways of expressing them.
These threads were entertaining last year and look like being no different this.:)

tyllwyd

I tend to try to keep edging the heating up as I need it - so if I feel chilly, I set the thermostat so it just clicks the heating on, and do that again when I feel the need. My theory is that it means that you don't have the heating on higher than you actually need to feel comfortable, and you get the benefit of radiant heat from the hot radiators over the course of the evening, rather than having hot stuffy air and cold radiators.

bengasman

victor2 wrote: »

All it shows, IMO, is that people have different opinions and different ways of expressing them.

The question is: whose opinion would you trust more:
Somebody with all the relevant qualifications, extended training and years of experience, or somebody who has a passing interest and gained his knowledge from what he read on forums or found on Google?

The worst bits of "work" I come across, are not from diy-ers, but from builders that have seen a heating engineer or electrician at work and think: nothing to it, I can do that myself. In other words: those that think that a bit of knowledge is all you need.

You can no more learn about heating or electricity from a book or a forum or Google than that you can learn to drive a car that way.

Cardew

bengasman wrote: »

The question is: whose opinion would you trust more:
Somebody with all the relevant qualifications, extended training and years of experience, or somebody who has a passing interest and gained his knowledge from what he read on forums or found on Google?

The worst bits of "work" I come across, are not from diy-ers, but from builders that have seen a heating engineer or electrician at work and think: nothing to it, I can do that myself. In other words: those that think that a bit of knowledge is all you need.

You can no more learn about heating or electricity from a book or a forum or Google than that you can learn to drive a car that way.

It would greatly help if you understood written English.

Instead you are so intent on rubbishing everyone, that you operate the keyboard before engaging what is obviously a below par brain.

bengasman

Yawn. The pointless and clueless rhetoric of the typical bottom rank upset Labour voter.

SYNERGY

bengasman wrote: »

Yawn. The pointless and clueless rhetoric of the typical bottom rank upset Labour voter.

Looking at the title of the forum and the title of the thread what has the content of your post, above, to do with either ?

Other than to flame perhaps !

oldtractor

HappyMJ wrote: »

I can use the boiling the kettle principal too. It uses a lot of electricity to keep a kettle warm. Do you keep your kettle (or more accurately an urn with an energy saving keep hot function such as http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=urn&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=315835383687873975&sa=X&ei=mSjVTr-2JsWK8gOStrWHAg&ved=0CH8Q8wIwBg) set to the keep warm seeting so that you can get a cup of tea whenever required? No because it costs too much.

That urn is perfect for an office as the cost of labour is more than the cost of electricity but you will usually find they are turned off at night and weekends to save electricity.

depends how well insulated it is. If its well insulated it wont loose much heat and might,for example,turn itself on for 1 minute 5 times a day to keep to temperature. So thats 5 mins a day. If it is allowed to go cold it might need 10 mins to get back to temperature and so costs twice as much. Also maybe the OP is at home all day.

victor2

oldtractor wrote: »

depends how well insulated it is. If its well insulated it wont loose much heat and might,for example,turn itself on for 1 minute 5 times a day to keep to temperature. So thats 5 mins a day. If it is allowed to go cold it might need 10 mins to get back to temperature and so costs twice as much. Also maybe the OP is at home all day.

If it's so well insulated that it only requires 5 minutes of heating during a day, how can it get so cold in that same day that it requires 10 minutes to get back up to temperature?
Common sense says that maintaining something at a temperature all day long requires more energy than just heating it when needed. The associated cost may be fairly insignificant and the ready availability of the hot water may also justify it though. In the same way as leaving my TV on standby all year long costs me about 20p. An annual cost I think is worth it for the ease of use!

oaks321

Thanks for the replies, some interesting stuff.