Have you got your heating on yet?

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We haven’t, yet! We’ve had the gas fire on to take the chill off the living room, but it’s turned off by around 9:00pm.
 
Yes. We have had a new system installed so busy playing with it, but it is on :LOL:
 
October = heating on..... here in the frozen wastes of the North (England).

TRVs on radiators, separate controllers & thermostats for upstairs and downstairs zones.
 
No, set at 18°c and yet to come on.
 
I had a thermostatic control and timer system installed on our (oil) ch soon after moving in - it was previously with on or off and the temperature control whacked up to max on the spoiler, which I also turned down to the perfectly acceptable minimum of 55. I've got the thermostat set to 17.5, which seems perfectly good for now, and the timer brings it on for an houtr first thing, half an hour late afternoon, and an hour mid-evening. I'm monitoring the oil consumption so I can plan the deliveries and costs. Just paid £250 for 400l, no idea how long that will last!
We've stocked up with logs for the new log burner in one sitting room, and a fresh big gas bottle for the fire in the other sitting room, so I think we'll be ok. No idea what the winter will be like here in coastal Northern Ireland.
 
1 Hour in the morning, just in the bathroom.
 
Set at 17°C for an hour in the morning. Mainly because Mrs Nod has to get up at 05:45 and it's a bit chilly then!
 
I must be soft, ours is set to 19.5 in the morning and 20.5 in the evening.
Will have to watch out though as Free Gear Keir has stopped my heating allowance this winter. :(
 
Dale. said:
No, set at 18°c and yet to come on.
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Ours too but has kicked in a couple of mornings for short time, thermostat was showing 12° when up to p at 4am but timer off then.
 
yup been on a bit for a few weeks now just an evening boost
 
Nikon f1.8 said:
I must be soft, ours is set to 19.5 in the morning and 20.5 in the evening.
Will have to watch out though as Free Gear Keir has stopped my heating allowance this winter. :(
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Just read the instruction book for our recent installation not realising I could set differing temps for morning/evening, thanks.
 
We had the heating on last night, only until about 9:30pm.
 
Mine is controlled by a thermostat so is always on. I don't have a turning on the heating ceremony in October like some, if it gets too cold the heating comes on automatically, even if it's the middle of August. Cold is cold, no matter the month.
 
August!! Put a jumper on :)
 
certainly have - just got back from 2 weeks in Crete - wall to wall sunshine
 
BillN_33 said:
certainly have - just got back from 2 weeks in Crete - wall to wall sunshine
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That's the point at which our heating starts getting thought about!

Hope you had as good a time as well do.
 
i'm off to gran canaria for 3 weeks on monday
coming back will be uncool
 
Nod said:
That's the point at which our heating starts getting thought about!

Hope you had as good a time as well do.
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Thanks Nod,
Yep - we had a great time - relaxing and the weather was perfect - a few trips out, The Botanical Gardens, the village of Vamos and a trip down to Paleochora - we stayed in Kolimbari - I think that we will book the same hotel next year at the same time of the year.
 
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June's nice too - and a bit fresher and greener.
 
We've had the Rayburn running since returning from France mid September, and been using the log burner for the last couple of weeks. Had one hard frost so far and lots of cold mornings. The house is generally stable temperature wise, cooling or warming gradually. Typical temperature in the unheated living room is around 15-16 Celsius.
 
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Awoke to a strange noise around 6am, near neighbour scraping his windscreen for the trip to work, frost seems early this year.
 
This morning was about 2°C outside first thing in the morning, but we've had the heating clicking on since last week, only set to come on before and after school to about 19°C, otherwise it's set for 17°C during the day and 13°C overnight.

The roof is insulated to death due to attic conversion many years ago, so it's warm upstairs, but downstairs can get a little chilly because the floorboard gaps aren't sealed and we also have a lot of space underneath the suspended floorboards where the outside vents are. I've been thinking about sealing the gaps and also insulating directly underneath the floorboards, but I'm not sure about the latter as could restricting airflow encourage rot?
 
Nikon f1.8 said:
I must be soft, ours is set to 19.5 in the morning and 20.5 in the evening.
Will have to watch out though as Free Gear Keir has stopped my heating allowance this winter. :(
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The recommendation is 18ºC so 19.5 is fine.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

Keeping your home warm this winter

Practical information on how to keep your home warm in winter.
www.metoffice.gov.uk www.metoffice.gov.uk

From the article:
"Ideally you should heat your home to a temperature of at least 18 °C. This is particularly important if you have reduced mobility, are 65 or over, or have a health condition, such as heart or lung disease. Having room temperatures slightly over 18 °C could be good for your health"

The heating can be turned off as the desired temperature nears because the radiators keep throwing out the heat. There's a name for that but it alludes me at the moment.
 
Conduction convection and radiation;)
 
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Norkie said:
Conduction convection and radiation;)
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No,it wasn't any of those. You'd think it would be ,though. It was a technical term and used by someone on the radio telling listeners how to save onenergy bills.
 
JohnC6 said:
The recommendation is 18ºC so 19.5 is fine.

www.metoffice.gov.uk

Keeping your home warm this winter

Practical information on how to keep your home warm in winter.
www.metoffice.gov.uk www.metoffice.gov.uk

From the article:
"Ideally you should heat your home to a temperature of at least 18 °C. This is particularly important if you have reduced mobility, are 65 or over, or have a health condition, such as heart or lung disease. Having room temperatures slightly over 18 °C could be good for your health"

The heating can be turned off as the desired temperature nears because the radiators keep throwing out the heat. There's a name for that but it alludes me at the moment.
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AFAIK the circulating pump carries on running (by design) for a period after the boiler has has ceased running.

In regard to the radiators "keep throwing out the heat', as mentioned if the circulation is still running the hot water will continue to flow but will stop......any residual heat will passively pass into the room, by the normal way they work as @Norkie days. Passively, means to me in this instance, that as the boiler is off the heating is no longer 'active' i.e. being maintained at the selected temperature.
 
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As long as the water in the system is above the ambient temperature, the heat from it will be transferred into the rooms.
 
We've not had the heating on for the last few days, it'd been very mild. I was out in the garden with just a T shirt on yesterday :)
 
I have ours set to kick in at 6am [last I checked at 55] , my 2 daughters and I are all rising about that time [well tbh I don't get up till near 8] and we have a rota for the bathroom/shower , 7 - 7:30 , 7:30 - 8, 8 - 8:30 [me being last as I start at 9 and it's 5 mins down the road]

once it's warm in there we're all good :)
 
Surely, it depends where the thermostat is positioned. For example if the main thermostat is in a hallway 18C would be fine as the temperature in other rooms will depend on how the system was balanced. In my house the main thermostat is in the sitting room so while 19C was fine during most of the day when one might be active but too cool for sitting down in the evening. I have a programmable thermostat which varies the temperature throughout the day and night to suit. Since we are now both retired, we need the sitting down temperature most of the time now.

Dave
 
Yes yes, the heating went on this morning for a wee while!! I hate giving in, but wifey was cold :(
 
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