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You lucky duck! 13.9 without heating in NW England
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50w. My mobo allows power draw from usb when off and I also have an amp, dac and eq on my desk.
Yea I'm not gloating but felt like I had to say it
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our heating came on this morning properly (as in for an HR or so) (near Cambridge). I think it had popped in for 15 mins a few times over the last week but this was the proper time it was on long enough for the upstairs rads to get hot . the lounge is toastie warm now without heating but Christ the converted conservatory / dining room is cold. for the next few months meals will be at the breakfast bar in the kitchen or on our knees in the lounge unless it is a special occasion. no point heating it just for the 3 of us.
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You must have a glasshouse effect, very clever if done right all the insulation must be dead on. My relatives from Scotland said they feel the south is kinda tropical comparatively
I don't know how that's possible,
Been away 3 days and the house is same as outside. 12c in one room
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Have you checked to see if you're roof's still on?
4 of us in newish 3 bed house, semi detached down south.
Its amazing. We are in Cardiff. So not exactly North! Heating has been on a lot last week and a half
Our house looses nearly all its heat in 2 days.
Then it's back to ambient
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So far for us, the server that lives in an alcove in the hall and the two PCs in the living room has kept the place warm enough to not use heating. Horribly inefficient space heaters though, half the energy is being wasted on PC performance!
A conservatory should always have doors to seal it off in the cold, all these conversions that join a conservatory into a wider open living space just cause massive heat loss. Saw a few houses that had done this and it instantly put me off as its obvious that it will cause issues in Winter.
Joining them to a kitchen seems to be the most common, at least you can shut your dining room off.
New builds are fantastic for insulation.
I had all the windows open for about 2 hours yesterday while I worked in the house (gives it a good airing too) and the temp dropped to 13.5oC on the Nest.
Closed all the windows as I was leaving house and, without any heating on and no one home, it rose to 16oC after about 2 hours.
I have a South facing patio door so I can leave the internal kitchen door open to rest of house and let the sun warm the house just from the sun coming through the patio door glass.
Even when I am home, the temp increases just from my own body heat.
I had all the windows open for about 2 hours yesterday while I worked in the house (gives it a good airing too) and the temp dropped to 13.5oC on the Nest.
Closed all the windows as I was leaving house and, without any heating on and no one home, it rose to 16oC after about 2 hours.
I have a South facing patio door so I can leave the internal kitchen door open to rest of house and let the sun warm the house just from the sun coming through the patio door glass.
Even when I am home, the temp increases just from my own body heat.
There is also all the electrical consumption of the house which effectively ends up as heat, just for easy maths say you used 12kWh a day, that would equate to 500w heating input all day/night. The average human at rest is about 80 - 100w. Even small amounts of sun through windows can produce tens of kWh worth of heating throughout the day. Right now i'm using around 15-20kWh of additonal heat input into my house per day (on top of the about 9kWh of electrical input from just using things) so in a new build with better insulation you can easily get away with a small bit of sun and the background electrical (until you really start getting down to lower digit temps and below)
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ours is a converted conservatory with a light weight proper roof with lots of insulation. it is far warmer now (it leaks but that is an issue in another thread) but this room IS our dining room and we still have the old patio door on it to shut it off from the kitchen when it is too cold. it's warmer today and we are back in there now. having 5 people in there helps heat it.
This is a game changer for trying to keep warm.
It's a 'vivarium heating mat' meant for keeping reptiles warm. Put it between your jumper and outer layer and it's a mini radiator for your core. It also creates a little warm updraft for your face. Plus it's only 14w, and only £15.
Sitting with it on for 8 hours will cost about 3p.
It's a 'vivarium heating mat' meant for keeping reptiles warm. Put it between your jumper and outer layer and it's a mini radiator for your core. It also creates a little warm updraft for your face. Plus it's only 14w, and only £15.
Sitting with it on for 8 hours will cost about 3p.
just put on an additional layer ... but agree they could form the basis of a good heated mouse mat to keep typing hands warm wfh - or, moreover the plant pot/propagation ones
have you worked out what you should/could be using form expected U's V
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It's about 4 years old if that helps? Not sure what the table means
Found out this morning our IHD reflects the Octopus GO tariff correctly - showed 29.41kWh of electricity used by 07:15 but total cost of only £2.94, including the 47p standing charge, so just about 8.3p/kWh equivalent usage
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