Obsessing about heating again

budwozza said:
4 Hours to reach the desired temp? How cold was it to start with and what temp did you try to achieve.

I would suggest that something is not right with your system.
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Nothing wrong with system, I have largish rooms, higher ceilings etc. I would guess your house is of newer construction with better insulation etc?

Initial temps would be quite low, i did check but cos I`m old Ive forgot lol.

Would be interesting to see how much you are using in a day.
 
Heating costs sub one pound, but I also have to threaten physically my flatmates to prevent them messing with my boiler timer.
 
Having read this thread, I've reduced my central heating water temperature from 80 to 55degC. The burner side of things is noticeable quieter so it's not being worked so hard, but runs for about twice as long in the morning before it gets upto the same air temperature. Be intersting to see if there is a noticeable change in costs.
 
All electric (immersion *shudder*).

I just turn it on when cold, no timers, spend so long at work it doesn't really bother me honestly.

No hot water, have electric shower and dish washer so I'm not burning electric on the immersion to have a shave.
 
My thought is if you run your boiler at a lower temp and your home heats up over hours and hours instead of just one, obviously as well as the temp being lower on the boiler, your home will also have more time during its heating up to lose heat through its walls, ceiling, doors and windows.

My thought is then that yes your boiler temp is lower but your boiler is on for longer and your home given more time to lose heat..

the best way to save money on gas is to invest in insulating your walls, loft, floors, fixing draughty doors and windows, buying an A rated boiler, fitting room thermostats and radiator thermostats and keeping them as low as possible, turning radiators off in rooms that arent used.
 
Mickie said:
The best way to save money on gas is to invest in insulating your walls, loft, floors, fixing draughty doors and windows, buying an A rated boiler, fitting room thermostats and radiator thermostats and keeping them as low as possible, turning radiators off in rooms that arent used.
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If your installing central heating from scratch, & if I was replacing a boiler with a A rated model, I would seriously look at having the system set up as 2 zones, ground floor & 1st floor,each controlled by a seperate room thermostat.
 
Nightglow said:
If your installing central heating from scratch, & if I was replacing a boiler with a A rated model, I would seriously look at having the system set up as 2 zones, ground floor & 1st floor,each controlled by a seperate room thermostat.
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We get extra code (CFSH) points for this on new builds and works out an extra £80 - 150 per property.
 
Yeah new regs say youre to zone floors on new systems, cant see that making much of a difference ontop of room stat and trv's on an average size home.
 
maccapacca said:
We get extra code (CFSH) points for this on new builds and works out an extra £80 - 150 per property.
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I didn't know that, well worth doing for so little extra cost.

Mickie said:
Yeah new regs say your'e to zone floors on new systems, cant see that making much of a difference on top of room stat and trv's on an average size home.
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Many advantages, your not using 1st floor rooms during the daytime, so the heating can be off or set at a lower temperature through out the day or timed to come on at 6pm for example.
There is just no need to heat the whole house to 20c degrees if you, or a family is out all day,it's pointless heating unused rooms.

Each zone has a seperate programmable thermostat & programmer, to allow it to operate the boiler independently.
Vaillant VRC 470f is a good example, it's is also weather compensating, using a wireless outdoor sensor, to send info back to the boiler, & can be setup for zones, multi thermostats.

It not cheap, & will take a while to repay the cost, but you will certainly cut down your gas usage, some people reckon they where making saving of up 20% a year on the gas used.

And if you build a new house over 150m2 the heating must be zoned, separate zones along with the fully controlled hot water zone to comply with Building Regulations Part L1 .
A few other changes to the regs are coming in effect in 2014.

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/buildingregulations/approveddocuments/partl/
 
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The heat rising from ground floor and 1st floor in my home turns off all the radiators on the 1st floor, so the trv's are doing their job, i really cant see it saving me much money, but i see your point.
 
Anyone who has changed any settings seen any difference?

Moving into my first house soon and just wanted a good way to try and regulate heating/gas useages.
 
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