When are you putting the heating on this year and what temperature and general heating advice

mark_cycling00

just to point out that:
- hot water temp less than 60 degrees creates a risk of getting legionnaires disease
- room temperature less than 14 degrees risks mould

The_Green_Hornet

Mine will stay as the same as last year.

luvchocolate

My heating is set on constant and I control by thermostat. 
Last year never on before 2pm..around 16c or 17c.
Keep busy in the morning and go for a walk etc. 
Usually off around 6pm. 
Trying to wait until November unless I have Grandchildren here. 
I'm 70 in over 55s flat with someone Underneath and both sides 

Krakkkers

There are 200 cases if legionnaires disease a year and half are from travel abroad.

MWT

JGB1955 said:

Ours will come on automatically once the temperature drops below 19C during the day and 15C at night.

Similar numbers here, we don't run the heating off, just let the thermostat determine when it needs to come on.

MovingForwards

I'll wait until it gets cold outside, the sun barely makes an appearance and there's a couple of hours daylight; usually sub-zero.

Then when layers, blankets and a hot water bottle isn't enough, the heating will go on in 15 minute bursts for a couple of hours in the evening.

RelievedSheff

Our combi boiler is currently only set to do hot water. We will switch it over to heating and hot water mid next month when we get back from holiday.

We live in a modern well insulated house (EPC so our gas bill is usually quite small at around 5500kWh per year. 

Even so this year we will be turning the thermostat down a degree or so and be making use of some fleece blankets in the living room to keep us and the dog warm. We usually have the house set to 21 degrees but I think this year we will try 19.5 degrees and see where we end up from there.

I am going to have a fiddle around with the timer as well and shave a half hour off here and there.

I was working from home for the last couple of winters so I am hoping that being back in the office and out of the house longer means we can cut back the hours the heating is on and save some more that way as well.

Here's hoping for a mild winter 

Swipe

My heating capacity is insufficient anyway so the best it can manage in deep winter is 16C

Ultrasonic

I actually don't use my heating the way the question was posed but rather rely principally on turning my heating on and off manually. For me relying on a thermostat wastes energy and money, as I've never been able to find a setting that comes on when I want it but then doesn't result in it being on too long so that I end up warmer than necessary. In part I suspect this is because what room temperature I'll be comfortable at will vary with activity levels. Always having to make a conscious decision to turn the heating on in itself will tend to reduce usage a bit, as well as avoiding things like it coming on unnecessarily just before I know I'm going out or going to bed. 

So what I do with my thermostat is toggle it between off (frost protection mode) and on (with a set temp of 18 degrees usually and the portable thermostat in my lounge) as needed.

I would recommend others at least give this approach a try to see if it helps them use less energy too.

griffb

Woke up this morning to find the CH had switched on. I know we have the thermostat set high (18 overnight, 24 daytime) but still a bit of a surprise. Think I might try dialing it down to 23 to see if anyone (ie wife) notices