Poll: your central heating

How long do you have your central heating on for?

  • Thermostat with one or two short periods a day (say 2 hours morning evening)

    Votes: 27 5.6%

  • Timer only, one or two short periods a day (say 2 hours morning evening)

    Votes: 30 6.2%

  • Thermostat with one or two periods a day (say early morning, then all evening)

    Votes: 55 11.3%

  • Timer only, one or two periods a day (say early morning, then all evening)

    Votes: 42 8.7%

  • Thermostat, three or four short periods a day.

    Votes: 8 1.6%

  • Timer only, three or four short periods a day.

    Votes: 20 4.1%

  • Thermostat with short period in the morning, and all evening.

    Votes: 22 4.5%

  • Timer only with short period in the morning, and all evening.

    Votes: 31 6.4%

  • Thermostat all day/evening as required.

    Votes: 132 27.2%

  • Timer only, all day/evening.

    Votes: 19 3.9%

  • The heat from the seti farm warms the house enough.

    Votes: 3 0.6%

  • No central heating.

    Votes: 34 7.0%

  • I'm a manly man, who doesn't do heating.

    Votes: 35 7.2%

  • Other.

    Votes: 27 5.6%
  • Total voters
    485

cm1179

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(can i get a poll please?)

i would like to know how long you have your heating on for ie 1 hour or under 2-5 hours, all day, all day and night etc and what your bill is roughly and who supplies your energy?

if you don't mind :)
 
Heating is on for about an hour in the morning and about 4 hours in the evening. Our gas bill is about £26/month (heating, water and hob) and we are with Equigas, flat rate of 3.5p/kWh + 5% VAT, according to the bill :)
 
Mines been on from 10am this morning and is still on full whack. When i put it on i had £10.06 on the meter. Currently i have £7.52 but the radiators are only on in the rooms i use, living room, bedroom and the bathroom.

Im with EON
 
I was just thinking about asking a similar question as regards either only having it on in the late afternoon and evening or just having it on all the time.

Currently I've got mine on 6am - 8am and then 4pm - 11pm, target temp is 20C, but at this time of year it's running continuously when it's on as it barely reaches 20C before it switches off again.

Costs me about £20 a month for gas for heating, shower and cooking hobs
 
i've started putting it on for an hour around dinner time and another hour from 8-9.30 in the evening and wrapping up warm. i put it to 60 (degrees i assume) it's not a combi boiler though and i'm a bit concerned about it's efficiency or whether i would get more efficiency from letting it run for 3 hours than i do for firing it up for less than 2 hours at a time
 
gas CH on 1hr in morning and 1hour in evening.

I have a open fire :) my jan-mar quaterly gas and electric bill last year was £550 ish hopefully cheaper this year as was on for 3 hrs and 5 hrs last year.
 
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I think ours is on like 'low' all day currently.. but then goes up at 3ish then in the evening.

Though it was cold today!
 
According to my girlfriend the heating has been on nearly all day (although I would guess about 5 or 6 hours) and she said it's taken £2.50 worth of gas off the gas meter.

My house is always so cold without it. :(
 
1 bed flat

No gas

Weekdays:
06:00 - 07:30
17:00 - 22:00

Weekend:
Don't use the timers, set them on when we want them on

EDF, using about 700kwh in total a month at the moment.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Mines been on from 10am this morning and is still on full whack. When i put it on i had £10.06 on the meter. Currently i have £7.52 but the radiators are only on in the rooms i use, living room, bedroom and the bathroom.

Im with EON
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SouthEastBlue said:
According to my girlfriend the heating has been on nearly all day (although I would guess about 5 or 6 hours) and she said it's taken £2.50 worth of gas off the gas meter.

My house is always so cold without it. :(
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You guys really ought to think about coming off the prepay meters. I know you're probably living in bigger places than me, but that's an astronomical amount to be paying for your gas :(
 
I never used to bother putting it on, however now I have a 6 month old I leave it on all day (he didn't like being put in the polystyrene box filled with bubble wrap).

Joking of course ;)
 
I've got no central heating in fact i have no Gas at all coming into this house, Scarey cold when we get a power cut as i can't heat owt boil owt or cook owt.
When it gets real cold i just curl up on the floor like a dog in front of the fire & crash there, I did it last night.
 
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