Leave boiler on?????

Wolf3

to be honest i thought the consensus about keeping the boiler on low being as cheap as using a timer depended on the age and type of boiler. if as you posted the Landlord has fitted a brand new energy efficient boiler it should be a lot cheaper to fit the timer

Cardew

barrymung wrote: »

That suggests it's not a conventional combi boiler set up but one with a seperate hot water cylinder, in which case a timer will save oodles!

Depends on your definition of 'oodles'.

Modern hot water cylinders are tested to a British Standard. With water kept a constant 65C a typical heat loss over 24 hours is 2kWh.

In any case that 'lost heat' isn't really lost as it warms the fabric of the house.

Again, obviously a timer should be fitted, but turning down the thermostat when a timer is not fitted is not a financial disaster.

Pincher

Student A will be set it to 18 degrees.

Student B will set it to 20 degrees when he comes in,

Student C will set it to 23 degrees when she comes in.

Student A will switch it back down to 18 every time he goes by.

Student C will get cold and turn it up to 25 degrees every 30 minutes.

deshepherd

Pincher wrote: »

Student A will be set it to 18 degrees.

Student B will set it to 20 degrees when he comes in,

Student C will set it to 23 degrees when she comes in.

Student A will switch it back down to 18 every time he goes by.

Student C will get cold and turn it up to 25 degrees every 30 minutes.

I think from the original description it was a case of everyone adjusting a thermostat in their own room - in which case just needs Student C to decide she likes her room at 25C and leaves her thermostat at that all the time for there to be a huge bill. Reminds me of someone I knew once who lived for a time in Sweden where the block of flats they lived in had a communal heating system where everyone paid a fixed portion of the overall heating bill - resulted in very warm flats but very large bills as there was no incentive to turn your heating down if you were still ging to be paying for every other flat having its hearting still on.

Pincher

deshepherd wrote: »

I think from the original description it was a case of everyone adjusting a thermostat in their own room - in which case just needs Student C to decide she likes her room at 25C and leaves her thermostat at that all the time for there to be a huge bill.

I didn't get "thermostat per room" from the original post.

There is an office conversion in Angel, where they have hot water meters that can measure how much heat you used per flat. But of course, the developer put in different style of meters over the five phases of the development, and the management company hires only people who just about know how to read a main waters meter. Nobody knew how to read the hot water meters and then use the correct conversion formulae, so nobody did. 15 years later, they just estimate usage by how many square foot the flat occupies.

No dispute about sharing toilet paper?
Bring your own every time?

annie123

It's a legal requirement to have a timer fitted
http://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/homeowner/boilers/boiler-controls/a-guide-to-worcesters-boiler-controls

Won't get the gas safety cert without one.