what temperature do you keep your rooms?

Dr House

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To try and save on gas I installed a Tado system and switched off the rooms and bathrooms I do not use.

We work random shifts so I can't really set a timer but I have setup a Geofence to the phone so when we are out it switches everything off.

I now only heat up 3 or 4 rooms kitchen, bedroom, kids' bedroom and the playroom to around 18 to 21'c. The others are all on frost protection and the temperature falls to 6 to 9C with 70 to 75% humidity. There does not seem to be any mold or condensation but maybe its a bit too cold/humid?

What are you guys doing? even doing this we are still spending a lot on heating, its a 2007 house to holds the heat in ok. We used around 4000kwh of gas in december .
 
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4000kwh sounds excessive. I used 2000kwh in December to heat a five bedroom house. Minimum temperature was 12C in most rooms, 14C in a couple.
 
Only heat it for about 1.5hr in the morning and 1 hr in the evenings.

Currently in the sub zero temps (outside) dropping to 10 degrees in some rooms and im occasionally boosting heating to compensate
 
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Bluecube said:
4000kwh sounds excessive. I used 2000kwh in December to heat a five bedroom house. Minimum temperature was 12C in most rooms, 14C in a couple.
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Really? this is my first winter in the house as we were in a flat with communal heating before.
I will see how Jan works out. We had visitors over Christmas so all 4 bathrooms were on and all the bedrooms which may be why it was so high. I will wait and read it on the 3rd.

It would be nice if I can keep it under 2000 kwh.
 
mostly about 18c but i have oil central heating

my sister has gas and i remember back 10 - 15 years age it was so cheap to heat her house with gas that she was in a tee-shirt all winter and it was boiling hot there full time.

now she struggles to pay to keep it from freezing over.
 
About 14c during the day, we set the heating to 18/19c but it only comes on few hours morning, and few hours evening. We have oil fired heating.
 
16c is my off temp so overnight and bedrooms during the day.
18c during the day downstairs. Generally though with the log burner on the house is about 21-24c throughout all day.

So only really using gas first thing in the morning and over night.
 
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Heating was set to 17.5c 24/7 which was mostly never a problem before price hikes. Now switch off entirely during the day (frost protection at 12c) and it drops to 15-16c. I stick the heating on for 2 hours at 4:30pm manually now which brings it back up to 18/19c and is comfortable enough.
 
The humidity seems really high? Humidity here (North East) drops when it's colder, I've seen 35-40% the last week or so for example (which is quite unpleasant in some ways). The only room I have that ever gets to 70%+ is my small en-suite when I have just stepped out of the shower.
 
Sounds like a lot of us are in the same boat. I don't think my Dining Room has ever been above 16 due to draughts etc.

I am hoping the PIR I am putting beneath the floor makes a good difference. The loft insulation has been a godsend (loft has been 2 degrees, bedroom beneath holds 18 for a fair while).

The master is freezing thanks to the lathe and plaster tile wall...
 
We just heat the whole house to 19C whenever the heating is on - 0540-0730/1600-2130 weekdays and 0700-0900/1600-2200 weekends, and on during the day if WFH. Heating is set back to 16C rather than "off/frost protect" at other times, but it's never dropped that low to kick in.
 
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squerble said:
We just heat the whole house to 19C whenever the heating is on - 0540-0730/1600-2130 weekdays and 0700-0900/1600-2200 weekends, and on during the day if WFH. Heating is set back to 16C rather than "off/frost protect" at other times, but it's never dropped that low to kick in.
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I reckon that would cost me getting on for £20 a day! Joys of a 1930s home!
 
Macky said:
I reckon that would cost me getting on for £20 a day! Joys of a 1930s home!
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Jeez - for reference, from 28DEC-22JAN we used a total of 897kWh for that, or £99.73 including VAT and standing charges. But it's a 2017-build house so it's basically just insulation - it'd be prime for a heatpump except the builders used plastic piping to radiators and gave us a combi instead of a hot water tank, never mind!
 
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squerble said:
Jeez - for reference, from 28DEC-22JAN we used a total of 897kWh for that, or £99.73 including VAT and standing charges. But it's a 2017-build house so it's basically just insulation - it'd be prime for a heatpump except the builders used plastic piping to radiators and gave us a combi instead of a hot water tank, never mind!
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What's wrong with the plastic piping?
Can still add a tank of you really want one.
 
robj20 said:
What's wrong with the plastic piping?
Can still add a tank of you really want one.
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Most stuff I'd seen online says the 10mm plastic piping to the current radiators wasn't great for the faster flows needed. And you're right, I could get a tank, but that's a big expense on top of needing to replace all the radiators (they're too small for the "proper" low flow temps of a heat pump), not to mention that with being on Octopus GO tariff electricity is 4.2x the price of gas during the day so I wouldn't be surprised to see slightly higher running costs on top of the many, many thousands I'd need to drop to fit one in the first place.

EDIT: I'll stop ranting now, I'm taking the post off-topic.
 
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squerble said:
Most stuff I'd seen online says the 10mm plastic piping to the current radiators wasn't great for the faster flows needed. And you're right, I could get a tank, but that's a big expense on top of needing to replace all the radiators (they're too small for the "proper" low flow temps of a heat pump), not to mention that with being on Octopus GO tariff electricity is 4.2x the price of gas during the day so I wouldn't be surprised to see slightly higher running costs on top of the many, many thousands I'd need to drop to fit one in the first place.

EDIT: I'll stop ranting now, I'm taking the post off-topic.
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At £100 for the coldest month to-date, you wouldn't see any pay back anyway.
 
Whole house is at 20c during the day and 15-18c overnight. Relatively modern 3 bed semi. We work from home, so rarely go a day without the heating on. During December we used 1038kWh totaling £117.39. That includes hot water which is on for 30 minutes 3x a day.
 
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