Do you leave your heating on all day when at home?

David28

My heating is set to 21 deg C from 07:45  to 23:30 then 18 deg C overnight but sometimes I manually increase the temp to 22.5 deg C in the evening if my wife is feeling chilly.
It resets to 21 deg C at 7:45 the next day.
It will occasionally produce heat during the night if it is below freezing outside.

The_Fat_Controller

Heating on 0530 - 2045 at 22.5 C and 18 C overnight.
Thermostat in main room.
Once I've had my shower, TRVs turned down in bedroom and bathroom and then back up in the evening for a couple of hours.
 

JGB1955

We have our heating on 24/7, all year round.  It is set to 20 C from 06:30 to 22:00 and 15C overnight -  can't stand a warm bedroom.  I think the frost protection kicks in at 5 C.  

Brewer20

Brewer20 said:

On at 8am off at 9.30am back on at 4pm until 11pm. It's set to auto but we overide it if we need it on earlier in the afternoon. Set to go off when it reaches 19 Deg C, cosy enough for us at that temp. We watch the bills but never suffer by having a cold house, it's good as we've topped up the insulation coupled with having a new boiler around  3 years ago. We are mainly in all day in winter, especially this year.👎

Would be interesting to know the costs too. Ok it depends on property size, type and age of course.
As above usage in winter for a 3 bed brick built semi (1976 built) our total bill last year was give or take the odd £ was £600, that's for gas and electric.

RelievedSheff

We have ours set with a programmable timer and thermostat.

During the week it is set to 19.5 degrees from 5am - 7am while we have breakfast and get ready for work, from 7am to 4pm it is set to 18 degrees, from 4pm until 9pm it is set to 21 degrees and then overnight from 9pm until 5am it is set to 16 degrees.

Weekends are similar but we have the temperature a little higher during the day.

I am currently working from home so if it is really cold outside I have been turning it up a little bit during the day. I hate sitting in the cold. But we are fortunate that our new build holds it's heat well and on mornings like today when the sun is out we get plenty of free warmth from the sun with the south facing windows.

coffeehound

On all the time, but with the boiler turned down to its lowest temperature.  This means the radiator circuit water stays between about 29 and 45 ℃ all the time and the pump never stops.
This avoids the horrible rollercoaster heat/cool cycles of most central heating setups.  Also the boiler is always running in condensing mode and always completes its condensing cycles.
Temperature-wise its just over 20 during the day and falls to around 18 overnight.  Once outdoor temperatures drop towards freezing I'll turn the boiler up to number two which raises the radiator temperatures to 35 to 50 ℃.
Running costs are surprisingly reasonable compared to rollercoaster mode.

The_Green_Hornet

The thermostat is set to 19.7 degrees between 07:00 and 11:00; 20.2 degrees between 11:00 and 23:00; 16.2 degrees between 23:00 and 07:00.

I use between 7000 and 8000 kWh annually.

matelodave

Ours runs 24/7 but under the control of several programmable thermostats all of which have a lower setting of 17 degrees and increase the temps in various rooms according to their use.

Lounge is 19 degrees from 0700-2200, study is 19 degrees 0700-1700 (but I know my wife winds it up to 21 or more when she's in there, which is most of the time) bedrooms & bathroom 18 degrees 0700-0900 and 2000-2200. The hall is 18 during the day.
The heating just gets on with it and comes on during the night if it gets everso cold and will come on in July if the house gets cold enough. The only time it gets turned down is if we go away for more than a couple of days when we set a holiday mode but it turns the heating back up at least 24 hours before we get home.

We are all electric, heating, cooking etc and get through just over 7000kwh a year (although it's likely to be a bit higher this year as we haven't been away as much

JohnB47

I think it's important here to understand the boiler controls in place. We've recently had our system replaced and we now have ours on from 7:30 to 17:00 ( with a wood burning stove after that). Our new system is much better at keeping a good average temperature all day, whereas the old system went for overly hot to cool, so we tended to turn it off and on manually. So it's not just 'how do you set your ch' it's, how modern is your system and ' how do you set your system' .