How to heat empty house

Mutton_Geoff

Absolutely no point timing the heating in a vacant property. The outside temperature can fall below freezing at any time of the day (usually at night). The two default heating periods (morning and evening) are meaningless.



Assuming the room stat is positioned properly (ie not near draughty door or window), then I'd set that at 15C and the heating to be on 24hrs and any rad stats to "2".


I have an empty annexe on my house and this is how I have set it.


If you never want the temp to fall below 15 (for insurance, damp or other reasons) then you need the boiler to be available for 24 hours.

robotrobo

mchale wrote: »

If i have a empty house in the winter I leave rad in hall on & switch off all other rads and leave all internal doors open, have boiler set to come on for 1 hour at a time 4 times per day, never had a problem.

do this and you will have no problem!, good advice

thorganby

mchale wrote: »

If i have a empty house in the winter I leave rad in hall on & switch off all other rads and leave all internal doors open, have boiler set to come on for 1 hour at a time 4 times per day, never had a problem.

robotrobo wrote: »

do this and you will have no problem!, good advice

It's NOT good advice, it is pathetic advice because having the heating on for one hour (which hour in the 24 hours?) when it is -5 C outside will achieve very little, apart from wasting money!

Why do some people think that they are better than thermostats!

couriervanman

UncleZen wrote: »

I went with "Property Quote Direct"

We used
https://www.intelligentinsurance.co.uk/ to insure an elderly relatives house over 6 month oct-march when she went into care home

Tojo_Ralph

As others likely have the problem of knowing how the temperature is fluctuating In an empty property through the day and If the temperature is being maintained as it should, I thought I’d mention a gadget I bought.

I purchased an Elitech Temperature Data logger RC-5 USB (£14 EBay). Typically used to record the temperature in likes of shipping containers, the unit logs daily temperatures at intervals down to 15 minutes, day in day out, week in week out, and when you want to see that data, you plug into your laptop USB and the supplied software runs a report, charts, whatever.

With no thermostat in the flat I want to see how the on, off, on, off timing are seeing the flat heat and cool in comparison to outside temperatures. Anyway, I think it will probe handy to understand the property. Plus I can move location to see if any areas heat slower or cool faster.