Also wondering how much is ‘lost’ from the boiler and it’s pipework
I too am wondering this. We have a hot water tank, the pipes leaving it act as heatsinks. As much DIY as I’ve now done I think I could open up the pipe boxes in the corners of the rooms and stick some insulation on.
Currently annoyed with. Annoyed with my boiler ATM – on a low setting whilst heating up hot water it will run until the outflow reaches say 62C or whatever then switch off, continuing to circulate the hot water to heat the tank. Fine, because the returning water is at say 56C. But when the temp drops down to 48 or so it won’t turn back on and continues to pump the now lukewarm water around the circuit which is actually cooling my tank.
I think I’ll have to set it to run only once per day, thus ensuring the tank is cooler and it can extract more heat from the circulating water and ensuring the return flow temp is low enough to allow condensing.