The heating is on !
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subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
moved from shorts and short sleeved shirts to long sleeved shirts and long trousers so that is working fine at moment.
heating never went on timer last winter, we used 1hr boost occasionally if it needed it ( which was 6 or 7 times in total between december and March)
when a fleece top won't keep me warm sat on the sofa i might put it on for an hour.
heating never went on timer last winter, we used 1hr boost occasionally if it needed it ( which was 6 or 7 times in total between december and March)
when a fleece top won't keep me warm sat on the sofa i might put it on for an hour.
I like the house cool... When I came in from work yesterday, the digital reading on the heating controller said 13.5 degrees. I shuffled it up to 16 degrees, 'cause I knew Mrs. P, would go on about it being cold when she came in.
Much more than that and I start to feel it gets stuffy.
Much more than that and I start to feel it gets stuffy.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
We run ours 6.30-8.00am and then 4.30-8.30pm. All upstairs radiators are turned off and doors closed, stairs have a heavy curtain across the bottom (it's an old cottage with enclosed stairs leading out of one room). We try to keep all downstairs doors closed once we've settled down for the evening and aren't moving around.
My theory is to get each room to the required temperature and then minimise heat loss from one to another.
Kitchen and dining room are adjoining so the door stays open while we cook to help transfer "cooking heat" to the dining room.
All winter I have to work hard on the lights following my wife round to switch off all the ones which don't need to be on!!
My theory is to get each room to the required temperature and then minimise heat loss from one to another.
Kitchen and dining room are adjoining so the door stays open while we cook to help transfer "cooking heat" to the dining room.
All winter I have to work hard on the lights following my wife round to switch off all the ones which don't need to be on!!
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
This year we have no cat, so no need to keep the doors open so she can make it to the litter tray. However this means that I have to solve the problem of doors not closing properly.
We have individually programmable TRVs, so it makes closed doors doubly important. Lounge stays cold in the morning and bedroom stays cold in the evening until just before bed time.
We have individually programmable TRVs, so it makes closed doors doubly important. Lounge stays cold in the morning and bedroom stays cold in the evening until just before bed time.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I can kind of understand by not heating it all day if you are not in but heating the fabric of the building and keeping it that way is my thinking . Maybe I think too much
My own needs are cold as I go to bed as I love jumping under the covers and getting warm but warm in the morning when I get out of bed . I also have an open fire that gets put on just because I have one and I'm male
Just interested in opinions to be honest no real worry about it .
A man and his fire is a wonderful thing
. I don't have central heating. I have a wood burning stove that heats the whole house. When i had central heating, we left it on on low all day rather than turning it on and off. We had thick stone walls and the heat was absorbed into the walls during the day, and radiated back into the rooms during the night. The walls acted like a radiator.Switch it on when you need it switch off when you don't... obviously. Only use timers if you want the house warm when you get up or warm when you get home. Leaving the heating on all day is as idiotic as boiling a full kettle when you only need a cup full. The latter is done on the basis that water will boil quicker because it is still warm from the last boil. When common sense says it takes less time to boil a cup (1/4 of a kettle) than a full kettle.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Yeah it is you that is cold not the housePut a feckin jumper on!
And thick socks and if you run out of free wood and its really cold get the green maggot out (army sleeping bag). If guests come round (with free wood) then I turn on my astonishing expensive LPG central heating.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Nice stove, we've got a Franco-Belge Montfort MK2 and that puts out enough heat to defeat the radiators/thermostat.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
woodburner is the next item on the project list. I can get skipfulls of offcuts from site so free to run ( virtually)
A small scan thinking of replacing it with a Burley which draws the air from outside instead of the warm air from the room. Contrary to the claims of woodburner manufactures the efficiency of a woodburner is based on the burners ability to convert the wood into heat and is not the same as the heat that goes into the room. Most goes up the chimney. Your lucky to get 35% efficiency specially as your draw warm air out of the room. With a Burley you can take the air from outside.
http://www.burley.co.uk/woodburner.php
I am also seriously thinking about making or having made a rocket stove....but that's another dream!
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
http://www.burley.co.uk/woodburner.php
I am also seriously thinking about making or having made a rocket stove....but that's another dream!
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
I have an esse. It draws air from outside as well. And it has an afferburner. The heat it throws out is terrific.
