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

victor2

onomatopoeia99 said:

19C daytime like always, 15C overnight like always. 

The heating is always "on" as it's thermostat controlled so comes on when it's cold enough.  I don't have a special "turning the heating on" ceremony in October like turning on the town Christmas lights .

EPC of B in my 1951 bungalow.

Of course that approach doesn't work very well if you have an old "gravity fed" CH system and hot water tank, where the tank is being heated whenever the boiler heating is switched on, regardless of what the thermostat calls for. Those old simple boilers last forever - only got rid of ours from the last century a year ago, and even then it hadn't failed!

Marmaduke123

Mine is always "on" too. I have reset the thermostat to 16 degrees overnight, 18 during the day (I'm retired), 19 in the evening. The hot water is set to come on for a couple of hours in the night. I'll see how I get on with that.

GingerTim

Only on exceptionally cold days - such is in the insulation in my flat it only dropped below 19 degrees on a couple of occasions and the heating was needed briefly on about eight days.

Astria

victor2 said:

onomatopoeia99 said:

19C daytime like always, 15C overnight like always. 

The heating is always "on" as it's thermostat controlled so comes on when it's cold enough.  I don't have a special "turning the heating on" ceremony in October like turning on the town Christmas lights .

EPC of B in my 1951 bungalow.

Of course that approach doesn't work very well if you have an old "gravity fed" CH system and hot water tank, where the tank is being heated whenever the boiler heating is switched on, regardless of what the thermostat calls for. Those old simple boilers last forever - only got rid of ours from the last century a year ago, and even then it hadn't failed!

You didn't have a diverter valve?

Still got one of those simple boilers though, love them, so little to go wrong. In the last 10 years all I've done is changed the pump! I do have it safety checked every year though, just to be on the safe side.

Oh and I'll turn the heating on when I start shivering

 

victor2

Astria said:

victor2 said:

onomatopoeia99 said:

19C daytime like always, 15C overnight like always. 

The heating is always "on" as it's thermostat controlled so comes on when it's cold enough.  I don't have a special "turning the heating on" ceremony in October like turning on the town Christmas lights .

EPC of B in my 1951 bungalow.

Of course that approach doesn't work very well if you have an old "gravity fed" CH system and hot water tank, where the tank is being heated whenever the boiler heating is switched on, regardless of what the thermostat calls for. Those old simple boilers last forever - only got rid of ours from the last century a year ago, and even then it hadn't failed!

You didn't have a diverter valve?

Still got one of those simple boilers though, love them, so little to go wrong. In the last 10 years all I've done is changed the pump! I do have it safety checked every year though, just to be on the safe side.

Oh and I'll turn the heating on when I start shivering

 

No diverter, just the system installed when the house was built in the 1970's. Now have a combi and have reduced annual gas usage by 30%, with more comfort from the central heating - when it's on, which it hopefully won't be for a while! 

phillw

My heating goes on in December. same as every year.

BobT36

It gets manually turned on when I feel too cold (despite putting on warm shirt / trousers, fleece jacket, socks + heatholder socks), and on full blast. it then gets turned off again as soon as I'm warm.

Besides for children / pets, I've never understood using a thermostat.  

NannaH

When the clocks go back unless we have a very cold October.
Heating set to 19 in the living room.
We only use 7000 kwh of gas yearly, 3 bedroom semi with combi boiler and a gas hob.
If electricity prices stay insanely high then I will be ripping out my electric oven for a gas one,  it will mean running a gas pipe through all the lower kichen cupboards but DH can do that as he’s about to be Gas safe registered. 

kacie

I'm all electric, so it'll be similar to last year,only on if I have to get washing dry. I will put the dehumidifier on to dry it first though and layer up with hot water bottle or go to bed early with the electric blanket on for half hour beforehand. 

Mstty

NannaH said:

When the clocks go back unless we have a very cold October.
Heating set to 19 in the living room.
We only use 7000 kwh of gas yearly, 3 bedroom semi with combi boiler and a gas hob.
If electricity prices stay insanely high then I will be ripping out my electric oven for a gas one,  it will mean running a gas pipe through all the lower kichen cupboards but DH can do that as he’s about to be Gas safe registered. 

If this is to be believe going on October rates of 14.8p for gas and 51.8p for electricity it's £51 for gas and £125 for electricity using the oven 223 times a year as they suggest below.

Not sure how much the work and gas oven will cost you but it's £74 a year difference.


Source

https://www.confusedaboutenergy.co.uk/household-energy-costs/buying-household-appliances/cookers.php