Moved into a new house a couple of months ago and only just getting around to fiddling about with the central heating and hot water controls for the boiler. Its a fairly new system (about 7 years old) and is fitted with a basic Drayton LP522 control panel.
Had a look at the programs available and you can program the heating and the hot water individually to come on at three different set times throughout the day for weekdays and also separately for weekends. Wondering what people suggest works well as a balance of convenience and cost/energy saving? What I've currently done is to program the heating and hot water to come on at 0630 and go off at 0730 each morning. That's it, I've set it so the 'afternoon' and 'evening' available programs across the weekdays and weekends are switched off. Will see if that results in adequate hot water throughout the day, only set it up like this yesterday so waiting to see how it pans out. It may be that I need to set a second CH/HW program for an hour or so early evening perhaps if the hot water supplies start to reduce. I can't really see me needing the heating on much over the next few months, if at all. Its a large 4 x bedroom bungalow and its only my partner and myself who live here.
I've also got my thermostat sitting at @18 deg C - what are folk running their thermostats at just now? Contemplating turning that down a bit too. The Drayton LP522 is really basic so I will be looking to replace that control unit with something more modern, flexible and with more options/control in the next month or so.
Had a look at the programs available and you can program the heating and the hot water individually to come on at three different set times throughout the day for weekdays and also separately for weekends. Wondering what people suggest works well as a balance of convenience and cost/energy saving? What I've currently done is to program the heating and hot water to come on at 0630 and go off at 0730 each morning. That's it, I've set it so the 'afternoon' and 'evening' available programs across the weekdays and weekends are switched off. Will see if that results in adequate hot water throughout the day, only set it up like this yesterday so waiting to see how it pans out. It may be that I need to set a second CH/HW program for an hour or so early evening perhaps if the hot water supplies start to reduce. I can't really see me needing the heating on much over the next few months, if at all. Its a large 4 x bedroom bungalow and its only my partner and myself who live here.
I've also got my thermostat sitting at @18 deg C - what are folk running their thermostats at just now? Contemplating turning that down a bit too. The Drayton LP522 is really basic so I will be looking to replace that control unit with something more modern, flexible and with more options/control in the next month or so.
