Colder Winter? Use more fuel

John_3:16

I am understand it may be a colder winter this year.
The start has been cold so we wait and see if it will turn out colder. With this in mind I wonder if anyone can predict how much more fuel we will use in %terms? I predict we will need to be using about 20% more this year if the start is anything to go by.

Has anyone not turned there heating on yet?

mattogier

If you can add more insulation - especially to the loft (BOGOF at B&Q at the moment) - and hang thick curtains etc you should be able to minimise additional heat / fuel requirements.

Oh and if you have a condensing boiler - fit much bigger radiators and turn the boiler temp down to improve efficiency!

imho

Has anyone not turned there heating on yet?............
Blimey we have had our heating on for weeks now . It was minus something here today and same yesterday.My neighbours were trying to get the ice of their windscreens.
Why they dont get rid of the "junk" in their garages and put their cars in the garage i never know !

John_3:16

I only say that because I know some will sit in sleeping bags on the sofa just to be the last to put their heating on. You wait the'll be along soon!

vixx

well i havent been sitting with a sleeping bag, but we only turned our heating on yeasterday for the first time. neither myself or my partner are in very much though and we live in a first floor flat (people above and below us) so we gain from our neighbours heating!
also live on the south coast so we do have it a little easier down here.

julesgr

We turned our calor gas heater on for the first full evening just Wednesday, and the bedroom heater has been set to go on for an hour before bed and an hour before getting up for the last week or so, Oh and i had the fan heater on in the bathroom on Wednesday.

Hapless_2

Well we have a shedful of wood and when that runs out that's it unless OH gets down the wood for some more (all legal with landowners permission).
But then I grew up in a house without central heating and can't see the need for it now.

Terrylw1

We've had ours on for the last month here as it has been cold everyday.

Just monitor your Kwh consumption over the course of a period and then times it into the winter quarter. If you are like us and using your heating a lot then it will give you a pretty good idea although if you use your heating in the morning you would need to add some units. Pretty easy to that if you know how much your boiler is using though per hour.

John_3:16

Yes we have a woodburner as well but I just think we are using more this year?

We can calculate our gas weekly. We have had to put up our monthly DD by £10 to cover our extra usage for Gas and electric

Poppycat

I only started using my CT last week its on 21c (thermostat in hallway so its warmer there so have it on 21c rather than 20c)

We have a log burner in dining room and it gets so hot in there even though we have all doors open in through lounge and kitchen diner.

The laminate floor just started to buckle with the heat so now we let there burner die down before putting more logs in, we already have it on very low as it was.

We have think curtains up in dining room (patio doors) and large bay window in living room.

We also have the loft well insulated, we didnt have it early this year when we moved in.