What temperature is youre living room

Spoonie_Turtle

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Our thermostat is in the dining room, set to 18°C.  The living room tends to be at 21/22°C with that, but any lower on the thermostat and the other rooms would be intolerably cold.

The last couple of days, the dining room (with the thermostat) has struggled to get to 18°C, most of the time sitting around 17/17.5.  The lounge has unsurprisingly been a degree or so cooler.

Swipe

16C right now

Kim1965

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Our thermostat is in the dining room, set to 18°C.  The living room tends to be at 21/22°C with that, but any lower on the thermostat and the other rooms would be intolerably cold.

The last couple of days, the dining room (with the thermostat) has struggled to get to 18°C, most of the time sitting around 17/17.5.  The lounge has unsurprisingly been a degree or so cooler.

How is your heat pump coping with these extreme low temps?
 Is your heat pump linked to a buffer tank and has your electricity consumption increase greatly as the external temps have dropped? 

markin

jvjack said:

My unscientist test with temeratures in living room with new gas combi over 7 unusually cold days is  847 kw. phew
24/7  14 degrees at night and day and set to 19 in evening.
Increased flow from 60 to 65.
Today got to 19 degrees in living room for first time.
That was a very unusually cold week but no way could i or anyone afford that.
Next week mild so would be different.

Very old rads from 80's and maybe 90's will need a flow of 80 to have the full BTU output, It may feel hot but not emitting its full rating.

Until 2013 T60 rads were used so a 70c flow needed, 60c is the average temp of the rads. If yours have fins on them they will probably be T60 or newer T50

https://www.onlyradiators.co.uk/blog/heating-essentials/radiator-delta-ratings-explained

"but imagine if the radiator you bought was actually 25% colder than advertised."

User_Name_1

My heating on 24/7 ,wall stat turned all the way past maximum ( so never goes off)

Trvs all set to 21/22 degrees ,7 radiators and 1 towel rail ( no trv on towel rail)

Hot water cylinder set too 60 degrees (we do not use a lot of hot water so it's we use the boost button on the boiler for one hour of hot water in the morning and one hour of hot water in the evening )with the boiler flow temperature at 65 degrees.

For the other 22 hours the flow temperature on the boiler is at 48 degrees .

Radiators never get burning hot but the house maintains 21/22 degrees.

According to the ihd I have been using around 82 kwh of gas per day ( heating/water/eating) in the last week.

That's for a 1960s terrace house  , next summer I want to renew the loft insulation .

We did get the cavity walls insulated for free a few years ago by British gas and this did make a big difference to retaining heat in the house.

Spoonie_Turtle

Kim1965 said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Our thermostat is in the dining room, set to 18°C.  The living room tends to be at 21/22°C with that, but any lower on the thermostat and the other rooms would be intolerably cold.

The last couple of days, the dining room (with the thermostat) has struggled to get to 18°C, most of the time sitting around 17/17.5.  The lounge has unsurprisingly been a degree or so cooler.

How is your heat pump coping with these extreme low temps?
 Is your heat pump linked to a buffer tank and has your electricity consumption increase greatly as the external temps have dropped? 

Buffer tank, I don't know.  We do have an immersion element which is used for a legionnella cycle once a week.  Hot water hasn't been a problem though, we don't really use very much from the tap.
[That said, it had its legionnella cycle in the early hours of this morning up to 60°C, and when I checked the consumption data a little earlier it had dropped to 12°C!  If we needed more of it we'd have to let it heat up much more often than the once daily it's currently set to.]

The radiators have been extremely warm I noticed yesterday and the day before - not hot, but like holding a cup of tea cooled just enough to actually hold.

Energy consumption, daily average for heat up until midnight yesterday was just over 20kWh.  November's average was 5.23 and October's 3.19.  So yeah, a massive increase!  The DHW average consumption has nearly doubled, 2.25kWh/day compared with 1.5 in November and 1.26 in October.  (Heating kicked in halfway through September.)

The heat pump overall has been costing on average just shy of £8 per day (our EPG rate is on the higher side at 35.06p).  So not too terrible compared with some of the gas costs I've seen on other threads, but at this level I'm still only comfortably warm with 3-4 layers including 2 thick fleeces, and 2 of the other 3 family members wear one or more layers outside of the living room at least.  I can easily see that many other people wouldn't be able to afford it though

GunJack

User_Name_1 said:

My heating on 24/7 ,wall stat turned all the way past maximum ( so never goes off)

Trvs all set to 21/22 degrees ,7 radiators and 1 towel rail ( no trv on towel rail)

Hot water cylinder set too 60 degrees (we do not use a lot of hot water so it's we use the boost button on the boiler for one hour of hot water in the morning and one hour of hot water in the evening )with the boiler flow temperature at 65 degrees.

For the other 22 hours the flow temperature on the boiler is at 48 degrees .

Radiators never get burning hot but the house maintains 21/22 degrees.

According to the ihd I have been using around 82 kwh of gas per day ( heating/water/eating) in the last week.

That's for a 1960s terrace house  , next summer I want to renew the loft insulation .

We did get the cavity walls insulated for free a few years ago by British gas and this did make a big difference to retaining heat in the house.

you live in a sauna!!

User_Name_1

Since watching that Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix I have stopped going to the local commercial bathhouses 😉

The temperature might seem a bit high ,but it's feels like a gentler heat with the boiler flow temperature being lower, the idea of doing it this way is too get the most heat out of the hot water as I can.I am trying to see how low I can get with the boiler flow temperature without loosing the warmth.

Next few days it's going to get warmer so I will be looking to see how much my gas usage drops

 Although the wife started complaining the other night when I was sat watching coronation Street in my undercrackers.🥵

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19C in dining, hall, kitchen, 20 in bathroom and lounge, 18.5 in bedrooms.

jvjack

thanks @markin , only 2 of my rads have fins. The one in living room has none so am asuming very old. having a read about them.
End of terrace house. I think bay window also doesnt help but reading comments hear and other threads my temps etc arnt' to different.
Today reached 18 and is using  5kw each hour.

edit. yes looking at bay window if stretched out would take up nearly all of front living room wall. Shame to have curtains closed on it all day.