View Full Version : How long is your heating on each day?
As title says. :rolleyes:
I was surprised to hear a friend has her heating on 24 hours a day. Obviously she tends to be at home most of the day, but when i go to sleep i switch it off.
How long is yours on each day, and how long do you tend to stay at home for?
E.g. Work from home or looking after children etc...
madness
07-01-10, 07:33 PM
My heating is technically swithed on all day, but it's controlled by a room thermostat on the landing which turns it on and off to maintain a pre-set temperature. So technically speaking it's not on all day. I used to have it come on in the morning for a couple of hours and then again in the evening, but the house never seemed to warm up properly. Now if the background temperature isn't warm enough I just turn the thermostat up a degree or so. It might not be the most economical way of running the central heating but it stops the house getting too cold and helps reduce dampness and condensation.
fizzwheel
07-01-10, 07:35 PM
As above, on all day, but controller with a room thermostat.
I found that because the house never gets cold, the boiler / heating doesnt run as much and when I get home from work or up in the morning I dont whack the heating right up on full because its so darn cold.
Spiderman
07-01-10, 07:40 PM
currently in this cold weather all day at 20 odd degrees, well this is at my mums house. At my own place its same story but at about 15/17 degrees.
husky03
07-01-10, 07:41 PM
all day-wife and three sprogs to keep warm
Dave20046
07-01-10, 07:42 PM
turn it on for a couple of hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening.
kellyjo
07-01-10, 07:45 PM
At home all day with youngest, comes on at 5am and off at 8pm when they are in bed. When they're at their dads i turn it off and live in the lounge with the fire on as i have a large 4 bed house and its silly to heat it when im the only occupant. Either that or my boyfriend keeps me warm ;-)
Mine come on between 5:30 and 9:30... then again at 16:30 until 22:30
At the moment it is on 24hrs though as we have been working from home.
Ours is economy 7 so the storage heaters draw down the electricity to heat them over night (when cheaper) and then we have it set on the lowest setting to slowly discharge the heat thoughtout the day meaning that the appartment is always warm. So you may class it as being on all day i suppose
Set for 22C, 7am to 9:30pm.
Changes to 10C for night time.
ethariel
07-01-10, 08:05 PM
All day, thermo set to 17.5, plesant temp, if its still chilly, another layer usually does the trick, long as im not 'cold' im ok.
dizzyblonde
07-01-10, 08:05 PM
One asthmatic, and central heating don't mix. One bloke running on Scottish Gas and a blonde who hates the bedroom too hot and stingy to boot(read tight with money). Don;t have it on much. Just for when we're up in a morning, when school is finished for a couple of hours, mid evening until we're due to go to bed. Its not on at all during the night.
Save money where a jumper ;-)
Mmm a few hours in the morning, and when we are in the flat at night.
Not on when we sleep or when we are at work.
Dicky Ticker
07-01-10, 08:13 PM
Save money where a jumper ;-)[/QUOTE]
This bit has lost me
Do you mean have a jump?
or wear a jumper?
I know which I would prefer:D
I have to have the heater on from about 3ish till I go to bed now.
Although the weather is warmer here then the UK it is the temperature differential from day to night that really gets to me, and as I am at home most of the time the heater goes on a couple of hours before sunset.
Heating here costs an amazing (by that I mean ludicrous) amounts of money each month so I use a single heater unit and then light the open fire when the wind is not southerly.
Big, draughty old house. We have TRVs on all the radiators set to mid position and the thermostat in the hall set to 21degC.
In the winter the heating is on as follows:
Mon - Fri (when everyone either at work/school)
6:30 - 8:00am
3:30 - 10:30pm
Sat & Sun (and when someone at home like in last 3 days):
6:30am - 10:30pm
So average mean use ((8.5 x 5) + (16 x 2))/7 = 10.64hrs/day
We use the heating a lot less than this in spring/autumn and not at all in the summer so I've checked the "5 - 10" box in the poll.
dirtydog
07-01-10, 08:44 PM
our heating is on 24 hours a day at the mo but controlled with the room stat to about 18-20 degrees. Keeps it nice and cosy for Libby
0 hours.
we live in a modern multistory block which is warm enough all the time.
but i wouldn't exactly wear shorts and t-shirt either. it is winter.
If you have a water tank and pipes up the loft, be careful about leaving your heating off all day in this cold weather. Someone on here did and had a burst pipe. I can't possibly name the person now, could I:D
If you have a water tank and pipes up the loft, be careful about leaving your heating off all day in this cold weather. Someone on here did and had a burst pipe. I can't possibly name the person now, could I:D
When I lived in wales I lit the fire connected to the water pipes after I had been out all day, only to hear very strange noises coming from the boiler.
When I went to see what was making the noise, I found that our boiler was no longer the round cylindrical shape it should be, but looked remarkably like a coke can that had been squished in the middle :(
I remember when we were kids up north (when it really was cold. Every year) we had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge. It would often be the case that we'd turn the tap on in the kitchen and ice would come out :shock:
We have the heating on all day about 27 degrees. But I find it gets a bit too warm so open the windows for a while.
Shellywoozle
07-01-10, 09:03 PM
24/7 - turned down to frost control over night just to stop any pipes freezing :)
Me likes to be warm
I remember when we were kids up north (when it really was cold. Every year) we had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge. It would often be the case that we'd turn the tap on in the kitchen and ice would come out :shock:
Try as I might. I can't work that one out. You turn the tap on and ice comes out? Is it like one of those ice dispensers you get on one of them there expensive fridge freezer thingies?
dirtydog
07-01-10, 09:07 PM
If you have a water tank and pipes up the loft, be careful about leaving your heating off all day in this cold weather. Someone on here did and had a burst pipe. I can't possibly name the person now, could I:D
Wow you have a tank in your house? Do you have the soldiers to go with it?
Seriously though I would be wise to check that the pipes in your loft and well insulated
If it was down to the missus it would be 24/7 even though the latter part of summer.
I walk in turn it off and throw dressing gowns and cardigans at them!!
If it was down to the missus it would be 24/7 even though the latter part of summer.
I walk in turn it off and throw dressing gowns and cardigans at them!!
I'd do the same but then I would be shown the door after. :lol: Don't mess with the lady and her heating. There is also the fact if I turn the heating down she comes to bed with PJ's on and that just is not cool at all.
Speedy Claire
07-01-10, 09:26 PM
At the moment I have to switch it on when i`m in the house and off when going out as the timer switch is broken :(
Mine is timed to come on at 7.30am till 9.00am and then I physically turn it on when and if it needs but its set to turn off at 8.00pm when the kids go to bed.
At the moment its only on for about 7 hours a day but might stay on tonight if its really cold lol
timwilky
07-01-10, 09:44 PM
6:30-8.00am and 5:00-8:00pm
Still I need to stop the wife turning it off and opening the windows. Damm freezing in here and she runs about in her nightie complaining it is too warm. She turns off the heating and opens windows at work etc and upsets all the patients.
seedy100
07-01-10, 09:48 PM
I remember when we were kids up north (when it really was cold. Every year) we had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge. It would often be the case that we'd turn the tap on in the kitchen and ice would come out :shock:
Well you were lucky!
When I was a kid we did have centeral heating.
We had a pit in the middle of the floor, under t' hole in t' roof, where if we, were lucky we would burn lumps of mammoth pooh.
Them was t' days them was.
Now we are soft and moden so we have the heating on from 6 to 9 am and 4 to 10 pm. SWMBO insists that we keep all of the doors open so that the tempreature around the house stays even.
I kid you not, the misery of being cold must be shared around, the woman is bonkers, bonkers I tell thee!
If I have the temerity to close the door the moaning is worse than the cold. When she slopes off to bed I shut the doors and turn the fire on in the lounge and slowly toast myself.
metalangel
07-01-10, 09:50 PM
8 hours, give or take. Thermostat controls it, 'comfort' temperature is 20C and 'minimum' temperature is currently 16C. When it's set to come on, it tries to keep the house at the comfort temp, the rest of the time it will keep the house at least at the minimum temp (and if I just tell it to not heat it all, it will still keep the house at 5C to stop everything freezing over)
Comes on just before I'd get up for work, about quarter to six, and switches off and half past seven so the house has been warmed for 90mins and will still be warm if she decides to go to work lol. By then, solar input is helping things a bit. Comes on again just after four in the afternoon and stays on until about half past ten, so again the house has been warmed for quite some time and the residual heat will last until we go to bed (and perhaps encourage us to as well).
There's no point heating your entire house to super duper temperatures if you're snuggled up in bed under a big duvet so just endure that cold walk to the toilet in the middle of the night! Likewise, when I get home from an early shift I tend to be in one room playing on the 360 so rather than heat the whole house we have a portable electric radiator that I switch on and put next to me to just heat me.
Biggest aggravation lately has been that with the cold temperatures, the house was dropping below my previous 'minimum' thermostat setting of 17.5C so all night the stupid heating kept coming on and off quite regularly and bugging me as I was convinced it was going wrong and ignoring my settings. Not to mention the noise it makes when it ignites and there's the rush of hot water through the pipes around the house (it's a new combi boiler, less than three years old, before anyone asks, and the radiators are hot within about 2 mins of it turning on, amazing!)
N8te rider
07-01-10, 11:05 PM
24hrs until the ice goes away
Heh. :)
I think he's a closet Scot:D
Tight bugger!
My energy bill(gas and electric) was £90 for 3 months ;)
Typical Scot ;)
Milky Bar Kid
07-01-10, 11:40 PM
I remember when we were kids up north (when it really was cold. Every year) we had no central heating, just a coal fire in the lounge. It would often be the case that we'd turn the tap on in the kitchen and ice would come out :shock:
Although a young thing, up until I was 12, we lived in a house with no central heating and just one coal fire in the living room to heat it. It was quite a big 3 bed house and there was no double glazing. The insides of the windows would regularly freeze. Occasionally, we had wee bits of ice in our water in the kitchen....
I do also remember this one time (at band camp) a tiny squashed, mutilated frog landed in my diluting orange....:shock::shock::shock::shock::confused:=;
barwel1992
08-01-10, 02:16 AM
we have fancy controle unit so heating on at 7-9am (inc hot water) then 12-1pm hot water then 1-2pm heating then 4-8pm heating and 9-10pm hot water and the on the weekends its on from 10am-3pm inc water heater and 7pm-10pm heating
all verry confusing but works well also have a thermostat, ohh and heated floor heats to 15c every 1 hour or so but thats only when we are in that part of the house
ravingdavis
08-01-10, 02:32 AM
Im pretty lucky, I havnt had to have the heading on for the past few days. Modern flat with lots of insulation and kind people living beneath me with their heating on keeps my flat quite warm, I may have it on for a few hours a week during the coldest days but most of the time I wont.
All day, also I'm working at home this week and the nipper is off school. Plus each room has a controlled rad so no point playing with the boiler.
timwilky
08-01-10, 10:04 AM
6:30-8.00am and 5:00-8:00pm
Still I need to stop the wife turning it off and opening the windows. Damm freezing in here and she runs about in her nightie complaining it is too warm. She turns off the heating and opens windows at work etc and upsets all the patients.
Last night she turns off the thermostatic valve in our bedroom and secretly opened the window. About 2am I felt a cold wind. shut the window and gave her a bollocking (strict talking to).
6:30am this morning she is turning on the radiator complaining she is cold. I don't understand women why can they not make up their minds?
Luckypants
08-01-10, 10:05 AM
Heating timed for 6.30-8.00 am in the week, 7.30-9.00 am at weekend. The boiler heats the water at night for an hour as well. I work from home so I am here 24/7, if the house starts to get nippy, I light the fire. It is a multi-fuel boiler stove, so it heats the hot water and the central heating kicks in when it is up to temp. Works very well. In this cold weather the fire has been lit 24/7, idling overnight on a low setting which keeps the house reasonably warm (rads off unless the water temperature creeps up above 65C) and built up for the day. The best thing is the chimney stack that rises through the centre of the house radiates gentle warmth to keep me cosy. :D
all day cos of the little un controlled by a thermostat which is in the hall its set at 18 degrees at the min
if i was back at work it would normally be timed twice a day on at 5am off at 7.30 am then on at 4.30pm off at 8.30pm
Graciepants
08-01-10, 11:15 AM
if im in my uni house, its on 4 hours a day 7-9pm and am. thats it. when i come home for the holidays, i cant breathe and walk around in strap tops because im not used to the heat, my sister just puts the heating whenever she feels chilly lol
Hmmm - all day sort of. Room thermistat controlled so 18.5 mornings and night when I'm up and 16 when I'm not. Except for the Rads on frost control. Whether it bothers switching on much I don't know - downstairs seem to think 30 is a good operating temp - but I'm not complaining :cool:
MCN_LiamM
08-01-10, 11:35 AM
Never. But there wasn't an option so I went for less than 5.
Me and my old man don't really get cold.
TheOnlyNemesis
08-01-10, 11:52 AM
our's are storage heaters so god knows what time and how long they actually kick heat out for.
Gazza77
08-01-10, 01:13 PM
Couple of hours in a morning and about 4 or so on an evening for us. It turns off as we get up and on an evening is on for about 3 hours before we get home and an hour after though, as underfloor heating has a very slow response time but retains heat well after it has stopped being on.
Also been lighting the woodburner most evenings of late to give us a quick top up, as that gets the lounge very warm very quickly.
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