To what extreme do you try save on heating?

alex21

Ds left his dressing gown and slippers at school over Christmas as they were used in the school play. He has just emerged from his bedroom with a fleece knotted around his shoulders, a scarf and a fez (also from school play) I thought we had travelled back to Dickensian times!:rotfl:

Kitte

grahamc2003 wrote: »

Looks like your dehumidifier isa compressor type. Unless you have economy 7, you'd be better off running it when the room is the warmest, which is likely to be in the day. They are very sensitive to temperature, and the figures the manufacturers quote about removeing 8 or 9 litres per day are quoted at 100% RH and about 28C. For more normal situations, say 20C and 70%rh dropping to 60%rh, these things take out about 2 or 3 litres per day ime. If the room temp drops to about 10c, then they take out pretty much nothing, yet still, depending on the setting, can use about 250W.

Dessicant dehumidifiers aren't sentitive to temperature, so you can run them down to zero at the same water extracting efficiency, although they are more costly to run, but also give out more heating.

Sash windows, although beautiful, aren't half leaky (at least mine are). We have secondary double glazing which I just put up for a few winter months, which works really well.

Thanks. You're right in that so far running it during the day seems to be more effective in terms of litres/hour, but if I run it overnight it helps prevent a huge amount of moisture on the window in the morning. Aside from the moisture on the glass, the room is very dry so what moisture is removed seems to be directly correlated to the amount on the windows.

My sash windows are very leaky and also very large. I also have wooden floors with a cellar underneath, no insulation and tall ceilings so it's pretty inefficient. My sash windows are being refurbished/rebuilt in the spring/summer so next year they should be a tad better!

Kitte

t0rt0ise wrote: »

I love the way there now seems to be a sort of competition to see how much cold people can tolerate, as if it's the better people who are hardier. Well, I feel the cold and therefore have the heating on for longer and set higher than most I expect. But so what?

I grew up in a very warm house. Heating almost on 24/7 during the winter months and most evenings a couple of roaring log fires too. When I first moved out of the family home, I'd feel very cold at anything under about 23 degrees.

However, since I've started paying the bills myself I've learnt to layer clothing and have slowly acclimatised. Over 5 years have become quite hardy. The first year was horrible, but it got easier each year. Now I'm comfortable at anything above 15c.

When I go back to visit my parents I find it genuinely too hot!!

baldelectrician

I have taken a different apprach to lowering my gas bills

I installed kingspan insulation between the joists on my ground floor, I have also installed more loft insualtion and (in my exension) I have insulated my walls with kingspan board (behind plasterboard and 2x2 battens- this keeps the kingspan intact and stops draughts)

The insulation below the floor cost me £200, and the labour was free (did it when I was quiet)

The isualtion on the extension was on the spec, so had to be done anyway

Don't just turn things off- look and see what you can do to save heat loss