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I'm the same, 20 degrees here and I still feel chilly with a thermal base layer, gilet fleece, long sleeve fleece and padded gilet on top.I feel the cold a hell of a lot more than others. I’m cold at 20C
I'm the same, 20 degrees here and I still feel chilly with a thermal base layer, gilet fleece, long sleeve fleece and padded gilet on top.I feel the cold a hell of a lot more than others. I’m cold at 20C
Heating was on quite a lot today but still felt cold. Bumped one room up to 22c
Its times like this I love my plasma TV.
I'm pretty surprised at how poor my new build is. I got home at 7pm yesterday and the living room was 15.5c, wacked on the heating for a full 3 hrs and it only went up to 19.5c, I had it set up 21 but never reached it. Two medium sized raditors as well in the room. 19c is fine I didn't feel cold but not particularly cozy either.
Yeah but you may need much more KwH to provide heating than electric, thats the bit people are ignoring.
I did some sums last week, for my boiler e.g. and discovered in my circumstance a 2000 watt portable heater is cheaper than using my boiler to heat my room.
Once move on to heat pumps it becomes clearly in favour.
For gas to break even in my circumstance it needs to be no more than about 23% of the cost of electric, currently its about 34%.
Once all the unlinking of energy costs kick in, more renewables come online etc, the gap will close even more on unit costs. There is a reason gas boilers are been phased out.
If anything its more of an issue because unlike old windows there are no draughts to evaporate/dilute moisture in the air everythings sealed in and as others have said humans put out a lot of moisture.Maybe I am, so it's normal to have a bit on the windows. I expected more from brand new double glazing.
8.6c in my bathroom this morning, 9.2 in our bedroom last night. Energy bill is also low.
Just get on with it. We don’t have central heating so we have no choice. We have night storage heaters but it would a cost an absolute fortune to run them.**** me. How do you put up with that?
Just get on with it. We don’t have central heating so we have no choice. We have night storage heaters but it would a cost an absolute fortune to run them.
We have a thick duvet and a heated blanket so once in bed it’s very warm. Ashp in the front room that keeps it about 16c which is more than adequate.
The results is though that with the government subsidy we pay nothing for energy.
It’s not about enjoying it or not. It’s a choice between handing over lots of money to energy producers or not but we’ve been the same since we’ve moved in.Well, you enjoy that.
That's not nescessarily a building construction issue. (Note it was below freezing outside but it was still 15.5c inside).I'm pretty surprised at how poor my new build is. I got home at 7pm yesterday and the living room was 15.5c, wacked on the heating for a full 3 hrs and it only went up to 19.5c, I had it set up 21 but never reached it. Two medium sized raditors as well in the room. 19c is fine I didn't feel cold but not particularly cozy either.
That's not nescessarily a building construction issue. (Note it was below freezing outside but it was still 15.5c inside).
In my new build, the boiler is woefully undersized for the size of the house. A 12kW boiler for a three storey 4-bed house is just too small. It takes FOREVER to get up to running temperature when heating on all floors is running at the same time. I've stopped running my boiler at the ECO setting and have turned the boiler temperature up to max to help offset it.
The house holds heat really well, but the boiler struggles to increase the heat. It's almost been designed with some form of ASHP or GSHP - intended to have a trickle of constant heat rather than constantly cycling hot / cold.
That's not nescessarily a building construction issue. (Note it was below freezing outside but it was still 15.5c inside).
In my new build, the boiler is woefully undersized for the size of the house. A 12kW boiler for a three storey 4-bed house is just too small. It takes FOREVER to get up to running temperature when heating on all floors is running at the same time. I've stopped running my boiler at the ECO setting and have turned the boiler temperature up to max to help offset it.
The house holds heat really well, but the boiler struggles to increase the heat. It's almost been designed with some form of ASHP or GSHP - intended to have a trickle of constant heat rather than constantly cycling hot / cold.