Excessive Gas Usage

They used to be controlled by digital thermostat but the engineer removed it as there was some sort of problem with it. So during the colder months we had them on timer and on heat setting 7 on the boiler itself. Now the boiler is on summer mode and therefore does not heat the radiators at all yet the bill seems to be the same!?!

Weird thing is however is the boiler seems to be making a noise in summer mode even when no hot water is being run and not within the timer settings (although I assume the timer is redundant in summer mode as water is on demand?)

Hot water wise we only have one shower a day each (so 2 in total) and just the taps on very occasionally... Telling you this makes it sound even more absurd!


The meter figures and the bill are unfortunately the same.

BA :)
 
I have the opposite problem. In our apartment we have used €12 of gas in 4 months. It is used for hot water, cooker, and heating so something must be up. But I'm not complaining. :D
 
Hmm reading the manual for my boiler maybe its not a combi boiler lol, it seems to have a 25l hot water storage unit inside the boiler itself.
The unit is a Radiant RMA 24E... sorry im really not clued up on this sort of thing :D
 
blackapache said:
Hmm reading the manual for my boiler maybe its not a combi boiler lol, it seems to have a 25l hot water storage unit inside the boiler itself.
The unit is a Radiant RMA 24E... sorry im really not clued up on this sort of thing :D
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fairly certain its a combi boiler, they process and heat the water as it passes through the system so the water storage unit will be for when hot water is required.

do you have separate controls or switches for hot water and heating on the boiler ?

whats your definition of "summer setting" for the boiler , set switches or something else ?
 
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blackapache said:
Hmm reading the manual for my boiler maybe its not a combi boiler lol, it seems to have a 25l hot water storage unit inside the boiler itself.
The unit is a Radiant RMA 24E... sorry im really not clued up on this sort of thing :D
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It is a combi, but it also has a store of hot water that it keeps hot so that when you turn on the hot tap you don't have to wait as long for it to come through. Just like a conventional boiler (with a hot water cylinder elsewhere in the house), but on a much smaller scale.

Turning off radiators you don't use can make a quite substantial difference to the gas usage by the way, so I'd do that as a first step. If the boiler is about 8 years old chances are it will be around 70% efficient (at a guess), modern ones are more like 90%+.. but it still wouldn't cause your gas bill to be abnormally high to be honest, 70% isn't THAT bad.
 
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mp260767 said:
fairly certain its a combi boiler, they process and heat the water as it passes through the system so the water storage unit will be for when hot water is required.

do you have separate controls or switches for hot water and heating on the boiler ?

whats your definition of "summer setting" for the boiler , set switches or something else ?
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Sorry for the delayed response.
There are seperate controls for the heating and hot water.
Summer setting is on a dial which when we turn to it means only the hot water is on not the heating, winter setting means both are on.
 
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