Your heating/hot water

[The Artist]

How much do you have it on?

During winter I have it on for an hour in the morning to warm the house + hot water for a shower then an hour, perhaps 2-3 when its really cold in the evening.

In the summer, an hour each morning just hot water.

[marlc0]

I'm home all day for 3 weeks, so the heating is on all day at 21C, then when i'm away, i leave it on a constant 10C, to keep the system going through the winter.

In the summer, it isn't on. This just the heating, I have a combi boiler so the hot water is on demand.
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[-Matt-]

Hot water we leave on constantly - heating we have on a lot more than i'd like because of the mrs

I rarely use the heating personally unless people are over, i'd rather just whack on thermals and an extra layer if its that cold.

[Chalky.]

Not had the heating on once in over 12 months.

Hot water goes on for an hour at 6.30 AM to allow me to have a hot shower, although sometimes (rarely) advance it for another use.

Last quarter's electric bill (electric everything) was about £50.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

It's on in the morning during winter with the heating, but off during the summer. Shower's electric, and if I want to shave I boil a kettle. No point trying to bring an umpteen gallon tank up to a temperature when I only want maybe a litre.
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[moonzoomer]

Never turn a water heater on, I use Thermomax solar tubes all year round with a large boost from the wood burner in the winter.

[Al]

Heating I have on for an hour in the morning and from 17.30>21.30 in the evening set at 18c. I'll normally turn the room stat down if I'm going out in the evening so it doesn't come on

I don't have independent control of the hot water so that is on at the same time as the heating, which is a bit of a waste as I have an electric shower so the only gas heated hot water I use is for washing up and washing my hands.
Will probably change to a combi boiler when mine packs up.
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[Clutchy]

Pretty much all day 8am-10pm for heating, hot water is left on all the time.

Heating goes off in the summer where needed.


Personally I rarely need it on, and find the house too hot 99% of the time.
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[tbourner]

We just set the thermostat to be at whatever temperature we want and let it do what it needs to do, have no idea how much it is actually heating water etc. Combi so HW is whenever the tap's on.
If you're really interested, we do 19°C from 6-8am, then 14°C till 5pm, then 18°C till 11pm then 16°C at night.
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[angryjonny]

Hot water is on all the time. The tank is well insulated and I'm of the impression that keeping it hot uses no more energy than letting it cool and heating it all back up again.

Central heating is dual-zone, thermostatically controlled. We keep it low in the bedrooms and warmer in the rest of the house. But it doesn't really do off/on, it just winds up and down depending on the temperature it's set to. Normally 18-20 during the day, 22-23 in the evenings. Bedrooms are probably a constant 18 but they absorb heat from the rest of the house.

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[Tamsin]

I never bother turning the heating on, I dont need it. It does occaisionally get put on by my housemates though The hot water in our house is on from 7am to 10pm - we all work different shifts (including one night shift) so theres no other sensible way to do it.

[Al]

I wonder how long it would actually take to adjust to a colder temperature and not need central heating on at all . Although my house is insulated to modern standards, its a bungalow and most rooms have two outside walls and a loft above so it loses heat quite quickly. Even so heating is still just a luxury, if times were hard it would be one of the first things to be cut out.
But I work as a plumber and it's amazing the reaction you get from people when you tell them that you can't fix their heating there and then. They go into some sort of helpless state and are asking what can they possibly do! It's like you've told them that they're going to have to live on the streets for a couple of nights.
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[Wonko The Sane]

got a 5 month old so set to be about 19deg all the time to be constant temp for her,

Probably going to start letting the temp dip a little to the middle of the day and at night and then go to normal settings after summer

Normal settings being to come on half hour before waking up, dropping to a lower temp during the day then come back up for the evening, dropping to 7deg min overnight
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[thx1138]

stuff global warming and the vironment

I have it like sauna in my house, and wear shorts and a vest all winter

[metalangel]

My utility bills are included in the rent. They don't run the radiators as much as I would have liked, and there's a wee bit of a draft in my apartment. So, bought a fan heater and ran it as much as I liked.

Again, stuff the environment and the eco-greenie weird beards, I'm going to sit nekkid in front of my heater and love every minute of it!
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[P.]

Well, cavemen and Inuits would find my house cold.

I have no radiators.

[The Artist]

It seems most of you have it on far more than me.

Maybe British Gas are ripping me off.

[finniee]

I come home from work between 2 - 4 in the morning, so house is freezing in the winter. All I do when going to bed is jammies on and a couch throw over the covers keeps me warm.
Heatings on for maybe 2 hours during the day for drying clothes other than that it's at the normal 21C.

In the summer it is never on.

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[Clanger]

My landlady has the heating/water on permanently, temp dial set at 25 degrees, two years ago we had a 'heated' debate and she agreed to turn it down to 18 degrees at night.

When she's away working, I turn it down to 18 degrees by day and off by night.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

fully off at night, and fully off when I'm out. Turn it on to around 19 when I'm in, that's mostly only needed during the winter anyway to be honest. I tend not to use it from April to October.

Hot water heats on demand, so meh. No tank for me.
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[bikertomm]

Can't stand people's houses that fucking blast out the heating completely unnecessarily. Get's right on my bonce.

Then, because they've been brought up to a boiling hot radiator comforting them at bedtime, in the office it's a normal 19 degrees and all you can here is "I'm cold" "Bit chilly in here isn't it"

FUCK OFF!!
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