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Minimum Temperature for home
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Did you care much before all this kicked off? Due to health issues we keep the house warmer than I'd like, but it is what it is.
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No but now it is priced so high I am making interventions to reduce my gas usage overall.
12C minimum apart from a single unused room which is at 10. If anyone is working from home then that room will be set to 16C. In the evening the temps of the bedrooms will be set to 19.5C for a couple of hours to take the chill off them while the lounge will be set to similar temp for a few hours. Works well!
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This has been a bugbear of mine for years - grew up really poor and with an environmentalist (hippy) mother. Did some work in my 20s teaching about sustainable energy, building equipment for demo etc. Girlfriends were always nice middle class girls, nice warm homes.
I said for years that everyone cares about the environment until they can afford to leave the gas heating on - it's proven true as this year everyone is suddenly taking an interest in reducing consumption. It's not an energy crisis it's a price crisis
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Yeah, I'm still wearing shorts outside. However I also wear a thermal top, fleece, coat, hat and gloves. That gets some funny looks but **** 'em.
I can’t believe people have their heating at 19c at night. Clearly you need to invest in a better duvet, it’d be cheaper in the long run! Sleeping with AC or heating on is horrible too 
Our heating goes off (well 5c is off) at night, when we want it on it’ll be 18/19c with the thermostat in the lounge. It’s all a bit crap at the moment though what with our building work - kitchen roof has no insulation and holes in the walls where new windows have been fitted. So turning the heating on seems a little pointless! We can just about maintain a nice temp in the lounge. Even though we fixed just at the right time a year ago; with the £60 back every month we’ve actually been in credit. Thanks taxpayers!
Our heating goes off (well 5c is off) at night, when we want it on it’ll be 18/19c with the thermostat in the lounge. It’s all a bit crap at the moment though what with our building work - kitchen roof has no insulation and holes in the walls where new windows have been fitted. So turning the heating on seems a little pointless! We can just about maintain a nice temp in the lounge. Even though we fixed just at the right time a year ago; with the £60 back every month we’ve actually been in credit. Thanks taxpayers!
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depends how old you are and how many times you go to the loo ...I can’t believe people have their heating at 19c at night. Clearly you need to invest in a better duvet, it’d be cheaper in the long run! Sleeping with AC or heating on is horrible too
Our heating goes off (well 5c is off) at night, when we want it on it’ll be 18/19c with the thermostat in the lounge. It’s all a bit crap at the moment though what with our building work - kitchen roof has no insulation and holes in the walls where new windows have been fitted. So turning the heating on seems a little pointless! We can just about maintain a nice temp in the lounge. Even though we fixed just at the right time a year ago; with the £60 back every month we’ve actually been in credit. Thanks taxpayers!
mines at 15 ish ..can be up 3 times a night ... 5 if you count letting the dogs out to pee ...
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To be fair, this is exactly what most people were doing before they went onto high prices, so why shouldn't we enjoy it while we can?
Having said that, I've been preparing the wife (and myself) for the price hike when we hit March 2024. It's partially because of the environmental impact, but also because I'm interested in this stuff and like making it work properly, as you well know. I'm not going to live in a cold house while people wastefully use vast amounts of energy, knowing that I'm doing my best to operate efficiently.
We're 20c from 7am til 10pm, 18c from 10pm til midnight, then 15c overnight until early morning where it ramps back up to 18c at 5am and then 20c at 7am. It rarely, if ever gets down to less than 18c overnight anyway as the house is well insulated.
Also if the house has reasonably good insulation and a modern thermostat you're likely to be using about the same to get it up from whatever it drops between the morning heat and evening session, as you would having it on all day.If you’ve got a relatively modern boiler it will probably be more efficient to leave it on with a lower flow temperature.
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It takes our house about 90 minutes in the morning at the moment to go from the overnight temp to the day temp, but then it's only running for about 10-15 minutes an hour to maintain it, if it was off during the day it'd probably be using the same 60-90 minutes to warm it up again in the evening and still do several boosts.
I've been keeping an eye on our heating and according to the hive app we lose around 0.5-0.7c an hour over night, and after the initial heat up in the morning it takes about 10 minutes an hour to maintain it. The hive thermostat seems to be very good at keeping the temperature within +/- 0.5c of the desired temp.
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That's nuts (and warmer than our house during the day in winter
). Do you sleep nude with no covers or something? 
Fair pointdepends how old you are and how many times you go to the loo ...
I've always laughed when I see our neighbours over the road in shorts and tshirts, in winter. I once knocked for a parcel they received for me, he opened the door and honestly it was like a wall of heat had just hit me. Their fuel bills must be insane.
This has been a bugbear of mine for years - grew up really poor and with an environmentalist (hippy) mother. Did some work in my 20s teaching about sustainable energy, building equipment for demo etc. Girlfriends were always nice middle class girls, nice warm homes.
I said for years that everyone cares about the environment until they can afford to leave the gas heating on - it's proven true as this year everyone is suddenly taking an interest in reducing consumption. It's not an energy crisis it's a price crisis
Why do you think discussion about being green and environmentally responsible has been gradually distilled down to an absolute focus on CO2 emissions at the expense of every other possible way are screwing up this planet? It’s not because the powers that be care about climate change, it’s because we have an economy which is built on cheap energy from a finite and rapidly diminishing resource in the form of fossil fuels. The whole CO2 obsession is little more than a smokescreen to justify the increase in costs that is necessary to get us away from the fossil fuel dependency and the idea that any of us can make a real difference to the climate by driving an electric car, taking less flights or turning the heating down is ridiculous.
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16 overnight.
17 for showers in the am and baths in the pm. 16.5 through the day if people are in.
That's quite misleading though, as thermostats in the coldest room (over the garage with flat roof)
So most rooms of the house are very comfortable and a lot warmer. I can't sleep with the heating on. Radiators turned off in our room pretty much all the time.
With those settings it's been on for about 4 hours in total by the time today is over.
17 for showers in the am and baths in the pm. 16.5 through the day if people are in.
That's quite misleading though, as thermostats in the coldest room (over the garage with flat roof)
So most rooms of the house are very comfortable and a lot warmer. I can't sleep with the heating on. Radiators turned off in our room pretty much all the time.
With those settings it's been on for about 4 hours in total by the time today is over.
I have a dial thermostat in my hallway and the central heating control unit in my kitchen. I can’t seem to find a way to link the thermostat, my heating seems to be on or off no matter what the thermostat is at. I’ve no way of figuring out if it’s wired in and doing anything… also, my hallway should be the coldest room so not sure why the thermostat is in there.
What’s the cheapest way to get a wireless thermostat, ideally that I can monitor from my phone? Hive seems kinda pricey and hoping there’s a cheap alternative.
What’s the cheapest way to get a wireless thermostat, ideally that I can monitor from my phone? Hive seems kinda pricey and hoping there’s a cheap alternative.
108!!! Jesus!! Do you have a large family? Maximum for me is 8 in a day and that's with a good few hours of heating on.10c at night and during the day.
Hour at 17c in the morning and 17c between 4.30 and 8.30.
More on weekends. Most expensive week was last week at £108 for electric and gas.
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Confident to wire it in yourself? I'm not sure what your heating control unit is exactly... Usually a wireless thermostat has a receiver unit you wire to the boiler and a wireless controller. Can be had as cheap as £30-40 if you don't mind old models or even used/old stock. If you want phone... TBH I'm gonna jump in and say set up Home Assistant, but that's an entirely different thread