Overnight heating??

born_again

So just looked at Hive overnight history, last night 7/8-12. Temp outside overnight -2 at 01:00 rest of night -1 till 06:00 -2 then -3 at 08:00 Met office figures from one of their weather station within sight.
Stat in Hallway
@ 00:00 18.10C
Dropped to
02:00 16.90C
03:00 17.40C
06:00 16.98C
Heating kicks in @17C
Highest reached is 19:25C @ 13:00 thanks to sun really warming up main bedroom & front room.

jrawle

WelshPaul said:

I did a test... Turning my heating off overnight resulted in my thermostat temperature dropping to 12.5 degrees (house was cold). Our heating kicks in at 7am as per a pre set schedule, the boiler ran continuesly for 2.48 hours until the thermostat reached 17 degrees and shut off.

Leaving the thermostat set to 15 degrees overnight resulted in the boiler kicking in a total of five times during the night (12m, 6m, 12m, 14m) and it took 1h 13m once the schedule kicked in to bring the house back up to 17 degrees. So, a total of 1hr 57m minutes of heating use  to maintain 15 degrees during the night and bring the house up to 17 degrees in the morning. We saved 51 minutes of heating by leaving the heating maintain a nightly temperature of 15 degrees when compared to turning off the heating overnight.

You need to look at the amount of gas used, not the time it was on for. Most gas is burned in the first minutes after the boiler fires up. After that, it will modulate the gas flow in order to maintain the water flow temperature. If the house is warmer, it will lose heat faster, and require more energy to maintain the temperature. The difference will admittedly most probably be small, but the laws of physics mean it will cost slightly more to maintain a higher temperature overnight.

GiantTCR

I have a newborn baby sleeping in a crib and a dog sleeping on the couch in the living room. Can't afford switching the heating off overnight.

Heating stays on all day and night set at 18C.

Alnat1

Human babies survived for many hundreds of thousand years without any central heating at all. My kids have survived without any overnight and don't heat their own homes overnight now.

You say you can't afford to switch it off.....I hope you really mean you can afford to keep it on 24/7

Longwalker

GiantTCR said:

I have a newborn baby sleeping in a crib and a dog sleeping on the couch in the living room. Can't afford switching the heating off overnight.

Heating stays on all day and night set at 18C.

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

mmmmikey

Longwalker said:

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

....my bungalow quickly falls below 16C without overnight heating and it may well be the same for @GiantTCR

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mmmmikey said:

Longwalker said:

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

....my bungalow quickly falls below 16C without overnight heating and it may well be the same for @GiantTCR

Your bungalow?

Or the thermostat in one room?

Or a thermometer placed inside "a sleep suit" and under "a sheet and two blankets" in a crib in one of those rooms? 

Longwalker

mmmmikey said:

Longwalker said:

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

....my bungalow quickly falls below 16C without overnight heating and it may well be the same for @GiantTCR

Seriously??

Since this thread Ive been watching the themometre like a hawk. This morning, with no heating in the bedroom for 14 years, with the living room heated between 5 and 9 to 20 -21 ( log burner no more logs after 8pm ) next door to the bedroom ( open plan, no hallways upstairs ) my bedroom was 16.1 when I got up at 6am - outside was minus 3

I put the thermometer in the living room, top of the stair well which is the coldest spot upstairs and no daytime heating, I got in at 4pm and it was 16.4 - outside was minus 1.5

House is concrete built, concrete floor floors and built in 1998. We have very good doors and windows and have also upgraded the roof insulation 

If your bungalow is losing so much heat, you have to look at insulation.

GiantTCR

Longwalker said:

GiantTCR said:

I have a newborn baby sleeping in a crib and a dog sleeping on the couch in the living room. Can't afford switching the heating off overnight.

Heating stays on all day and night set at 18C.

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

According to information I found on the NHS website, babies need a temperature between 16C and 20C and I keep it right in the middel.

I'm sorry but I'll follow the advice from the NHS rather than what strangers in a forum of scrooges say

Also don't tell me what my baby needs.

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GiantTCR said:

Longwalker said:

GiantTCR said:

I have a newborn baby sleeping in a crib and a dog sleeping on the couch in the living room. Can't afford switching the heating off overnight.

Heating stays on all day and night set at 18C.

Im sorry but your baby does not need the heating on all night

A temp of 16 oC is all that is required 

A baby in a sleep suit, with a sheet and two blankets, will be warm enough to be kept safe 

According to information I found on the NHS website, babies need a temperature between 16C and 20C and I keep it right in the middel.

I'm sorry but I'll follow the advice from the NHS rather than what strangers in a forum of scrooges say

Also don't tell me what my baby needs.

Does the NHS say that you must keep your whole house central heating on throughout the entire night?

That is a bit of a surprising diversion from the sort of advice they normally provide.