Heating on all day or on timer?

BMG

Is it cheaper to have your central heating on all day on low or have it in a timer either 2 or 3 times a day?


Ours is currently on 6.50am to 8am and them 7.30pm until 10pm. Now the weather is cold we seem to keep switching it on for a couple of hours late afternoon. Set at 18 degrees


Our office room is north facing and so gets cold very quickly. We have insulated walls and insulated loft and double glazing.


I am looking to reduce our gas and electric bills if possible. We are in fixed rate until January 2015

Kevie192

I don't have any experience of it myself but all of the information I have read says it is definitely cheaper to use it on a timer rather than having it on all day...

ariba10

I am not getting involved in this.

SilverSaloon

Using a TIMER is always going to be cheaper.

BMG

Thank you for your responses and I apologise if I have asked something that has been asked before. I only asked because I thought I had read in an article awhile ago that it was cheaper to leave it on low all day but I wasn't convinced and just wondered if anyone had any experience of this.

BMG

Why has my post been moved and where has it been moved to? :mad:

StuC75

its more about if you are in the house most of the day to be enjoying the heat throughout.

e.g. a Kettle takes 5 minutes to boil from cold - but would take less to reboil if you re-do a couple of minutes later (but its still used the initial energy plus small amount to reboil)

Now imagine that's been happening all day while you were out at work, just so that when you got in from work you could make a drink there and then, rather than wait 5 mins for a drink from fresh..

Which would you go with then (assuming it couldn't boil dry through the day)..

Mine works by temperature times rather than a straight on\off, but if have mine set 'on' for weekdays first thing then early evening.. but then at a weekend have it set to be more comfortable throughout the day, as Im more likely to be in then..



depends how long it takes for the house to heat back up -

Pink.

BMG wrote: »

Why has my post been moved and where has it been moved to? :mad:

If you scroll up you will see that your post has been moved to the Gas and Electric board as it was more relevant than Old Style.


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oldskoo1

On when needed cheapest

Timer cheaper

All day for comfort

24/7 - throwing money in the toilet.

Mojisola

BMG wrote: »

Is it cheaper to have your central heating on all day on low or have it in a timer either 2 or 3 times a day?

Ours is currently on 6.50am to 8am and them 7.30pm until 10pm. Now the weather is cold we seem to keep switching it on for a couple of hours late afternoon. Set at 18 degrees

Our office room is north facing and so gets cold very quickly. We have insulated walls and insulated loft and double glazing.

I am looking to reduce our gas and electric bills if possible. We are in fixed rate until January 2015

Are you at home all day in the home office? Do you spend most of the time in the office? Do you have a way of topping up the heat in the office if you start getting chilly?

We have the heating "on" all day in that it is controlled by the thermostat which switches the heating on depending on the temperature but we are in all day.

Runcorn_Bridge

I'm in most of the day so it's on from 6.30am 'til 10pm. the thermostat is kept at 16c or down to 15c if I'm busy with housework.
Try it for one week one way and the next week another and read the meter.