Hive heating ?.

[ScienceBoy]

We were told by an engineer to have a constant temperature all day as it works out cheaper as the boiler works less hard to maintain the temperature than try and heat a cold building from scratch each day

This can be true if that temperature set is low enough, but stick it on 23 and your bill will rocket. I think this advice is often greatly misunderstood which is why it often has a bad rep.

Set it to the right temperature for the times of the day and you will be better off. You need to analyse your own schedules, when you need heat and when you dont as well as how good your insulation is. We use 18 for daytime, 22.5 for morning heatup and evening cosy and then 16 overnight. Wife likes to ramp it up sometimes but our bills are still very low. £40 for a month in winter.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

We were told by an engineer to have a constant temperature all day as it works out cheaper as the boiler works less hard to maintain the temperature than try and heat a cold building from scratch each day

Why would you want to keep your house a constant temperature all day when no-one is at home? Surely youre just defeating the whole point of trying to be enviro friendly with your "smart"?
Up until lockdown, my house would have been empty from 7:30 am until about 4/4:30, and during that time I would have the stat set at 12*, with 18* between 4 and 7 and 19* between 4 and 10 with 6*. I leave my heating on all year round, so if the temps drop it automatically comes on but if it's warm enough it doesn't. My latest gas bill (only a combi boiler) is £62.02 for the quarter. I don't think it's gonna be any cheaper at current prices.
I don't need "smart" systems to waste time and energy, I set the stat and programmer and leave it at that. Much more simple and reliable

 

[Neilds]

Why would you want to keep your house a constant temperature all day when no-one is at home? Surely youre just defeating the whole point of trying to be enviro friendly with your "smart"?
Up until lockdown, my house would have been empty from 7:30 am until about 4/4:30, and during that time I would have the stat set at 12*, with 18* between 4 and 7 and 19* between 4 and 10 with 6*. I leave my heating on all year round, so if the temps drop it automatically comes on but if it's warm enough it doesn't. My latest gas bill (only a combi boiler) is £62.02 for the quarter. I don't think it's gonna be any cheaper at current prices.
I don't need "smart" systems to waste time and energy, I set the stat and programmer and leave it at that. Much more simple and reliable

My wife wfh 4 days a week even before lockdown so house is occupied 90% of the week anyway so we don’t need to worry about scheduling too much. Just set at 20 degrees and leave it

 

[Jamesbrown]

My usage through the last quarter of winter was £98 for gas plus a standing charge of £20. That was with scheduling a boost in the morning and three hours at the evening plus a help from the gas fire. Will see what it’s like sat at 18 degrees all day. But off around bed time.

 

[jim8flog]

We were told by an engineer to have a constant temperature all day as it works out cheaper as the boiler works less hard to maintain the temperature than try and heat a cold building from scratch each day

It may be true that heating a cold building makes the boiler work hard but the trick is not to a have a cold building but neither is it not necessary to keep the building at constant temperature. Just set the thermostat temperatures to lower figures when the building is empty and and overnight when you are snug in your bed.

I use 15 degrees for overnight and 18 for daytime. Bear in mind that if the house was hot when the thermostat changes at night it will take a long tome to drop to those temperatures.

 

[rulefan]

Bear in mind that if the house was hot when the thermostat changes at night it will take a long tome to drop to those temperatures.

I have ours set to 20 through the day (6.30 to 22.30) and 7 at night. It never drops below 16 by the following morning.
£90 pm gas and elec.

 

[jim8flog]

It may be true that heating a cold building makes the boiler work hard but the trick is not to a have a cold building but neither is it not necessary to keep the building at constant temperature. Just set the thermostat temperatures to lower figures when the building is empty and and overnight when you are snug in your bed.

I use 15 degrees for overnight and 18 for daytime when I am not at home. Bear in mind that if the house was hot when the thermostat changes at night it will take a long tome to drop to those temperatures.

 

[chellie]

We like the app for putting the heating to come on if we are going to be coming back to a cold house. Never have the heating on overnight.

 

[Jacko_G]

If I'm in the house during the day and I'm cold I'll light the wood burner. Heat the living room and leave the door open, takes the chill off the rest of the downstairs.

I'll put the heating on about 30 mins before the wife or weans are due in.

 

[rulefan]

Heating kicked in earlier but couldn't connect to the hub.
Have tried to reset it, can't log into my account and the online chat has had no agents for the last 3 hours.
Anyone know what error 500 is ?


Time to get Nest I think .

Has it been resolved yet?

 

[PJ87]

Has it been resolved yet?

Has for me

Got this tweet from them

Hi,

Im really sorry about the issues.

There was a national issue with the App which has since been resolved. If you still have any issues could you drop us a DM with you email, first line of address and post code then we can have a look into it.

Regards

Iain

 

[Crazyface]

We were told by an engineer to have a constant temperature all day as it works out cheaper as the boiler works less hard to maintain the temperature than try and heat a cold building from scratch each day

I thought this was an uban myth? Is this actually a thing?

 

[Neilds]

I thought this was an uban myth? Is this actually a thing?

Seems to work for us. £80 a month for gas and Leckie with both working from home full time. And bonus of not sitting round house in jumper/blankets etc

 

[rulefan]

I thought this was an urban myth?

It is.

The Myth
Conventional wisdom holds that it costs more to heat a home up than to keep it warm, and your furnace works harder to do it, too. Conventional wisdom is wrong. First of all, a furnace doesn't actually work "harder" -- it merely works longer. The colder the house is, therefore, the longer your furnace will run to reach the temperature you desire. Additionally, it doesn't cost more money to heat your house back up after turning down your temperature, no matter how long the house went without heat or what temperature it reaches.
The Reality
The fact of the matter is, it takes about as much energy to reheat your house to the previous temperature as the amount of energy conserved while the temperature was dropping. While that sounds like a net-zero savings, there's a catch: Where the energy savings comes in is during the period between when the heater is turned off and the house has cooled as much as it can, and when you turn the heater on again. Consequently, the longer your home remains unheated, the more energy you save.


https://www.mrcentralheating.co.uk/blog/is-it-cheaper-to-leave-hot-water-on
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/5559...y-to-try-and-save-money-on-your-energy-bills/
https://home.bt.com/lifestyle/house...e-pushing-up-your-winter-bills-11363946169603

 

[Old Skier]

We were told by an engineer to have a constant temperature all day as it works out cheaper as the boiler works less hard to maintain the temperature than try and heat a cold building from scratch each day

Im sweating just reading some of the temps being mentioned on here., haven’t you heard of jumpers. Hive set to 7 at night and 18 rest of day. Obviously only from 1st October And off against 31 March.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Im sweating just reading some of the temps being mentioned on here., haven’t you heard of jumpers. Hive set to 7 at night and 18 rest of day. Obviously only from 1st October And off against 31 March.

You live in Devon where it can be tropical ? Start moving north and heating becomes something you care about deeply ?

 

[Old Skier]

You live in Devon where it can be tropical ? Start moving north and heating becomes something you care about deeply ?

No chance, lived in northern Germany for too long. Army regs, no heating before Oct and shirt sleeve order dont you know.

 

[chellie]

Im sweating just reading some of the temps being mentioned on here., haven’t you heard of jumpers. Hive set to 7 at night and 18 rest of day. Obviously only from 1st October And off against 31 March.

Have been thinking the same. Ours is OFF but does have the frost protection on. We boost it on when it's really cold but first port of call is always extra layers on.

 

[williamalex1]

No Nest control, we just use the room thermostat with no timer.
Thermostat is normally set to 20/22 C ,then it's turned down to around 12/15 C before bedtime .
In the morning it's turned back up to 20/22C it only takes 15 mins to reach that temp.
If we're going to be away for a while in the winter months, the stat is turned down to frost protection 5/10 C.