Advice from the Daily Fail and Energy Trust

r2015

SMART HEATING
Turning down your thermostat by one degree will save the typical homeowner £75 a year, according to the Energy Saving Trust.
But you don’t have to shiver to save money. You can reduce costs by leaving your heating on 24 hours a day - because then you can turn down your boiler’s internal thermostat, which controls the temperature of the radiators. The boiler only ever has to top-up the temperature, not heat the house from a cold start.


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redux

The first comment is useful but the second might be more debatable, and I wonder if the journalist has slightly misheard what was being said.

Heat loss from the building is proportional to the temperature difference between inside and outside. Better insulation slows down the flow, but it's still the temperature difference that counts.

If the house is cooler at night, or while nobody is at home during the day, then heat is being lost more slowly during those periods.

Maybe the Mail means run the boiler at a lower temperature with the radiator valves more open during the periods when warmth is wanted, which some people do advise, but still have the room thermostat lower at night. In which case they should say so.

roddydogs

Daily Fail, Ha Ha, so funny & original.

Smiley_Dan

... but true, especially when it comes to their coverage on energy topics.

teddysmum

If this follows the pattern of their advice on the effects on health of coffee, wine, statins, asprin, fat etc., then they will give the opposite advice, next week.

Smiley_Dan

Smart heating causes cancer

Andy_WSM

r2015 wrote: »

But you don’t have to shiver to save money. You can reduce costs by leaving your heating on 24 hours a day - because then you can turn down your boiler’s internal thermostat, which controls the temperature of the radiators. The boiler only ever has to top-up the temperature, not heat the house from a cold start.

Oh dear oh dear! :eek:

I hope they suffer a law suit from all the people that try this over the Winter, then get much bigger than expected bills in the Spring.

Think I'll leave my kettle boiling overnight too. Clearly cheaper than heating it from cold in the morning... :rotfl:

Bark01

If its so clear cut then why have you guys been discussing it for 11 pages?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4327195

Andy_WSM

Bark01 wrote: »

If its so clear cut then why have you guys been discussing it for 11 pages?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4327195

Because people don't understand the laws of physics, which cannot be bent, changed or reworded to suit. They are what they are.