Same, although I'm looking forward to the weekend when it heats back up and I can put the flow temperature back down below 60ºCSame (3 bed detached also). Not sure I can ask for much more than that/prevent it dropping as much in this weather.
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Same, although I'm looking forward to the weekend when it heats back up and I can put the flow temperature back down below 60ºCSame (3 bed detached also). Not sure I can ask for much more than that/prevent it dropping as much in this weather.
I wish I was getting that. It impressive. I went from 15c to 8.5c from 9pm to 6am. That is all windows closed, trickle vents closed, all blinds/curtains closed etc. It has taken me 3.5hrs of heating to get back up from 8.5c to 13.5c at moment downstairs. I am pretty sure it cauase the lack of radiators given out enough heat for the room size. Only 2 600x600mm single sided rads for whole downstairs which just isn't enough.My downstairs stat was 18.5C last night at around 7PM, this morning was just over 15C at 7AM, so 12 hours it went from 18.5 - 15 which isn't terrible, no heating on in that window. It seems to hold 17-18C OK but I think I'd see it drop off a lot quicker if I tried to maintain 19/20C through most of the day.
I wish I was getting that. It impressive. I went from 15c to 8.5c from 9pm to 6am. That is all windows closed, trickle vents closed, all blinds/curtains closed etc. It has taken me 3.5hrs of heating to get back up from 8.5c to 13.5c at moment downstairs. I am pretty sure it cauase the lack of radiators given out enough heat for the room size. Only 2 600x600mm single sided rads for whole downstairs which just isn't enough.
You've offset gas usage with heating your home by electricity insteada background 400W is a considerable amount of heat continually pumping into your home
Indeed but I think the issue being that the whole two rads for downstairs isn't enough. 1 in corner of living room near the hallway which has the second rad and then nothing in the kitchen or downstairs toilet so relative to having heating across enough of the downstairs zones the small radiator just isn't enough to ever get the full area to temp even if it is left on. The landing upstairs is open to downstairs meaning that the stairwell volume is also really only heated by that one small rad.I have 5 radiators downstairs area, kitchen has 1 x tall radiator on the wall, lounge has 2 x moderate ones, hallway and downstairs WC have 1 x smaller one each.
Having more will speed up heating but it's all area based, smaller house needs less heating full stop, having less rads means they need to run longer but gas consumption should be less as the volume of water in the system would also be less.
If I put on both zones full blast it's about 1m3 for an hour of heating the whole house.
Upstairs has 6 rads but two of them are basically off at the TRV.
Lol it's negligible.
Turn the storage heaters off time for you.Lol it's negligible.
I'm running at £12 a day..
I found someone who was told dont worry it will just trickle, like me single glazed, stone age boiler. It used over 70kWh for just under 10 hours.You think that's low? We're in an end terrace, 1950s-built brick three bedroom. We run the heating 24/7/365, keeping the house at an actual 19oC. This month, we used an average of 20kWh/day in gas. I'd be mortified at 30!If you're heating your house up from cold all the time, it's going to need the boiler running flat out each time. We find it cheaper to just leave it ticking over, along with being sensible about not opening doors/windows more than needed, having curtains closed and over exterior doors etc.
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On the other hand, the 'leccy has murdered us lately. This month it was £170, and that's with LED-everything and running the bare minimum. Our background usage is about 400W in the day and 200W for 12 hours overnight (plus bursts for dishwasher, washing machine etc). Before this quarter, our whole energy bill was £90/month for dual fuel. Jumping to £170 for electricity and £80 for gas is an eye opener... We've basically gone from paying £22.50 a week all in to £62.50 a week. Not at all terrible by some standards (my in-laws on pre-pay spent that a week even before the rises!), but it's a jump nonetheless!
Edit: Weekly maths fail (no coffee yet).
That graph shows why some are having problems with GCH been so costly.Here's my study
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Here's the living room
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Is it just better to heat to say 17 as a base 8am-8pm and then 20 in room you're in? Rather than this big swing?
House dipped to 13c overnight without heating.
Pale verticals are the actual requests by trv for heat
Its looking like the heating is basically being requested almost all the time when you combine all rooms. Is there any point in this? Making me wonder about the value of smart heating.
For example if the study has hit target, but other study is under the heating is on heating 1 radiator. You can imagine this ping pong keeping the heating on potentially all the time.
However, does this get countered by the flow only going to, say 2 radiators?
Effectively..
Is it worth heating 2 radiators 8 hours a day (smart heating) vs all radiators 8 hours a day (dumb heating)
I found someone who was told dont worry it will just trickle, like me single glazed, stone age boiler. It used over 70kWh for just under 10 hours.He set thermostats to just 16C but couldnt reach it, too much heat loss I assume.
GCH seems so variable its like the figures are barely believable at each extremity, the variance seems to be massive. I have asked him for his hourly break down as he has a smart meter, to see if it was full pelt constantly or if it ever did slow down.
You seem to use very little electricity.Monday and Tuesday we used 57kwh of gas. each day not so bad was as we have gas heated shower 2 of us use daily and the lad used it Monday.
leccy we use about 16kwh Monday and Tuesday most of it off peak
i am not sure why.In
You seem to use very little electricity.
A house with undersized radiators will never get up to temperature, so in effect it's a waste of gas. If the radiators are too small or too few they will not dissipate sufficient heat into the room. It's not the fault of the boiler. When the thermostat calls for it, the boiler only switches on when the water in the central heating loop drops below a specified temperature.having less rads means they need to run longer but gas consumption should be less as the volume of water in the system would also be less.
This is my problem. House goes cold so fast after the heating goes off that it's barely worth putting it on. If I had a smart meter I'd do some proper tests but mine got fitted as electric only and now bulb won't add the gasI found someone who was told dont worry it will just trickle, like me single glazed, stone age boiler. It used over 70kWh for just under 10 hours.He set thermostats to just 16C but couldnt reach it, too much heat loss I assume.
GCH seems so variable its like the figures are barely believable at each extremity, the variance seems to be massive. I have asked him for his hourly break down as he has a smart meter, to see if it was full pelt constantly or if it ever did slow down.
Its looking like the heating is basically being requested almost all the time when you combine all rooms. Is there any point in this? Making me wonder about the value of smart heating.
For example if the study has hit target, but other study is under the heating is on heating 1 radiator. You can imagine this ping pong keeping the heating on potentially all the time.
However, does this get countered by the flow only going to, say 2 radiators?
It looks like your heating can get you from 12 to to over 17 in under 1 hour? There is people who struggle to gain 2-3 C in about 3-4 hours, about 1C an hour. So for those the boilers are working much harder not just to heat up but also to maintain if they ever hit the target temp. Yours looks like its a clasual stroll up hill and barely doing anything to maintain.
have you put a power meter on it, to see what it actually uses ?we cook (albeit use air frier as much as possible rather than oven)