Not putting the heating on – how’s it going…?

3 hours of central heating equalled around 3m³ (30kw) of gas used, around £3. Temperature made it to 12°c.

A trip to the pub costs me £12 over 2 hours. Makes my central heating seem cheap.

I’ve worked out why my flow and return temperatures behave so weirdly. The pump is fitted backwards. Having checked the manual, the colder of the two pipes coming out of my boiler is the flow and the hot one is the return.

The boiler was trying to modulate based on the return temperature, which it was unable to do because it didn’t respond quickly enough.

*waits for I’ve taken my boiler apart during a cold snap and now we have no heating thread*

The pump is fitted backwards

Blimey, that doesn’t seem great!

Heating still off here. Due to be -7 tomorrow night but then warming up a bit. Gas bill for this quarter around £44.

^ You must have some firm of heating?

Heating still off here. Due to be -7 tomorrow night but then warming up a bit.

I guess you’ve “won” 🤷‍♂️

Blimey, that doesn’t seem great!

No. The boiler will never have been condensing. 15 bloody years of bills, how many thousands of quid caused by a shit plumber. And there a hundred or so houses in this development probably all the same. No rads balanced either and no set-up done. How much CO2 wasted due to shit developers.

waits for I’ve taken my boiler apart during a cold snap and now we have no heating thread

Tomorrow lunchtime probably 🙂

^ You must have some firm of heating?

I’ve got a hot waterbottle and several layers of clothing.

Tomorrow lunchtime probably 🙂

🤣

3 nights of minus 10c

Yeah our heatings on.

-4c outside in the Toon.

Flat temperature dropped to 11c after sun down at around 3.30pm.

Manually switched on central heating at 7pm for 2 hours as it was just too cold. Auto timer is set from 6.30am to 7.30am & 7.30pm to 8.30pm but the heat loss rather fast today.

Now living room is 14.4c and bedroom temperature is at 8.7c because there is no insulation between the bedroom and the wall outside. Might sleep in the living room tonight.

It is going to be a freezing winter.

Dog owners: at what point does low internal home temperature become an issue for your dogs and what do you do about it?

Just seen this….
My two spaniels sleep outside in the stable until it gets to -3 overnight, then they come into the utility room.
Their bed outside is a double thickness of memory foam topper and they get covered with fleece blankets as well.
They love sleeping outside.

Seems to average about -5 in many parts of the country. It you havent got your heating on then youre risking your health- which then impacts on the rest of the population via the health service etc.

Its effing freezing in Edinburgh – and my turned down heating is hardly coping.

I’d be interested to know what sort of temp people’s houses are getting down to without heating. Ours packed up so was off for a couple of days last week untill I bodged it and seemed like it didn’t make a huge difference, only down to 14C or so just from cooking and the hot water.

I’d be interested to know what sort of temp people’s houses are getting down to without heating

Mine sits about 14 between heating

In daily use.

When I turn it to frost mode for the Xmas hols when we hit the inlaws we can come back to 8 degrees or lower.

Insulation only keeps heat in when there is heat to keep in .

I live in a van…. Worked out last week how the thermostat setting works.

Diesel heater now kicks in at 5°C….more to protect the lipo battery and stop the water system from freezing… Was supposedly minus ten last night.

I try to keep it at around 14c but these two days it dropped to 11c and 12c.

We’re not heating our house like least year. It’s currently 18.5 which… I’ve put my slippers on, prefer not to but feet cold. Not been moving much this evening. It’s programmed to heat at 14, we turn it up to 18 or 19 but the program turns it back to 14 every couple of hours.

Our greyhound has pyjamas if it gets really cold, otherwise he just hides under a duvet (he does that regardless of temperature).

Unseasonably cold here. Barely 30c.

New solar panels are working nice though.

I’d be interested to know what sort of temp people’s houses are getting down to without heating.

Currently working away in Glasgow as I was last week. Got home last Friday teatime to an empty house at 10 degrees (everyone else was out all day). Heating has been on for at least 3-4 hours since. Temp tends to get to 19 degrees with heating on, and drops to 14-15 in-between. With washing machine and 2 necessary tumble dryer loads, plus the CH and hot water, Saturday was a £17 day. I nearly cried.

Current set up is CH on for an hour in the morning and 2 hours in the evening.

Dog owners: at what point does low internal home temperature become an issue for your dogs and what do you do about it?

Never. Nothing.

Our lurcher will also drag bedding out of her kennel and sleep on it outside during the day even when snow of the ground. She doesn’t like rain though and will go in kennel.

After years of working outdoors and now in my advancing years slightly more sedentary 😔I’m enjoying feeling comfortable in my home . We were always very frugal with our heating not so much now . Came back from a 20 mile sub zero ride about 230 yesterday and just slobbed out in a warm house even though it hadn’t been heated since 930 . When I say warm 15.5 was a heck of a lot warmer than outside!
This thread has turned into typical STW willy waving hasn’t it , I’m harder than you I live in an ice box , you lot need to man up etc etc It’s the equivalent of those blokes I see still wandering around in shorts in sub zero temperatures with red raw legs ! One was particularly funny yesterday, beanie hat underneath a hood and legs a shade of crimson 🤔🙄

Heating on. Hovers about 15°C in the hallway where the thermostat is. Had woodburner going on air dried oak last couple of evenings. This morning at 0630 the smart dooda was up at £7.43. highest yet but we are losing any thermal build up so I expect that, not fun as days are becoming £20 as it stays cold.
Stupid old badly insulated house.

I’d be interested to know what sort of temp people’s houses are getting down to without heating.

Our place by the beach is currently 6.5c.

Thanks to the PV the hot water is sitting at 57c though which keeps the small amount of pipework happy.
Once the water hits 60c any spare generation goes into a heater in the hallway.

@sharkbait. What controller does that multiple divert for you?

we have heating on for a couple of hours in the morning, and then again a bit longer in the evening. Thermostat is set to 19 but we’re not reaching that, in the day when the heating’s off it’s around the 14C mark.

I’ve got softshell trews and a down gilet on, and it’s bearable.

dog doesn’t seem bothered at all.

Had to turn the boiler temp up a few degrees yesterday. I’d clearly gone too low as house was not getting above 16 with heating on constantly and wood burner in the evening (though the lounge was toasty). Also seeing £20+ days repeatedly evening on south coast with low electric usage.

oldfart – how true about the willy waving posts!
The crass stupidity of deliberately keeping a house at a temperature which is medically proven to have adverse medical effects.
That crass stupidity will put some people in hospital where they will take up beds which are needed for more deserving patients.
Idiots.

The crass stupidity of deliberately keeping a house at a temperature which is medically proven to have adverse medical effects.

Careful with statements like that. I’ve no doubt some posters are will waving but there will also be people on this thread who genuinely cannot afford to properly heat their house.

Dog owners: at what point does low internal home temperature become an issue for your dogs and what do you do about it?

Karelian Bear Dog from Finland so always red hot. Sleeps in garage all year round.
I’ve watched him break ice on a tarn to dunk his belly and bits to cool down when winter hiking.

@sharkbait. What controller does that multiple divert for you?

In our old house, I used one of these to monitor the temp in the heat store. It would trigger a ch pump on a dedicated radiator loop using one of the spare coils in the heat store. Simple, but you need a coil there for this solution.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334655680775

What controller does that multiple divert for you?

@muddyjames
It’s an Immersun – they’ve been around a long time and it’s still the best diverter out there in my view. It can divert up to 3 different destinations in any order you like plus has remote boost and can control a 3Kw relay.

Spendy though – I bought mine about 7 years ago and it wasn’t particularly cheap then!

This looks remarkably similar (Myenergy Eddi)

I can – accidentally – join in. Boiler has been failing to ignite since Friday. We managed with a small fan heater in the hall and an open gas fire in the living room for a couple of days. I thumped the boiler during the ignition sequence on Sunday and it magically kicked in. I then turned the thermostat to max to stop it cutting out but that was only an option when it was getting down to -13 outside so I had to turn it back down yesterday and so we had no heating last night at all. Engineer was scheduled to turn up yesterday but had to cancel due to weather/roads. He was then going to come this morning but has had to cancel due to testing positive for Covid(maybe we missed a bullet there). Now waiting for another engineer.

I am not a fan of being too warm but the reality is that constant minus temperatures need to be fought.

What temperature has implications on medical then? 14-15 isn’t cold, when you consider I have a gilet on, it’s not damp / house is well ventilated. The only really cold room is the utility room which is single skinned lean to, and no-one’s spending any time in there.

Just been listening to a GP on Radio Scotland and his words you should be looking for 22°
15° in the room I had last night with just the 5k log stove on maybe not the most efficient one at 70%
Heating on just now as I can’t work but so glad kids all grown up and away. I feel for anyone with newborn or very young kids

franksinatra – my statement is factually correct; the medical evidence is readily available.

I very much doubt temps around 15c have any real health implications.  anyone any proper sources?

Lookslike the last month has been around £8 a day in gas for me.  Hmmmm.