Central Heating 23/24 Season
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
Yeah, 3 degrees outside for me and just 13 in my living room at 7am. Got up for the cricket and no blanket is going to work.. Even the cat looked cold.. Heat is on (first time with just me at home)
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
Wrapping up with cape-type things, trying not to look like this:
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Only putting CH on to give the drying a start.
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Only putting CH on to give the drying a start.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
I believe Mrs Sendo has given the heating a couple of short blasts of late.
It was cold as f*** in our living room last night, so I put the electric heater on much to her disdain. In her opinion it wasn't cold, but then she was wearing a cardigan and had a big, thick fluffy blanket over her at the time.
It was cold as f*** in our living room last night, so I put the electric heater on much to her disdain. In her opinion it wasn't cold, but then she was wearing a cardigan and had a big, thick fluffy blanket over her at the time.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
Still not put ours on yet. Been a bit more chilly over the last week but not quite there yet.
Save it all up for one big furnace in December.
Save it all up for one big furnace in December.
Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
We went to my mum's today. She put the heating on for the kids but I swear had to fight for the lights to come on..Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:34 pm Still not put ours on yet. Been a bit more chilly over the last week but not quite there yet.
Save it all up for one big furnace in December.
Led lights cheap as chips mother (17 cups of tea an hour on the other hand)
As we were out so stuck the dehumidifiers on the air con (which unfortunately cools the house aswell but does dry it out) but hour before we came home set it up to use the heating mode
Beautiful when walked in.. worth it aswell half 8 30% battery left to see us through until 01:30 when it goes on charge mode
Will delay the heating as much as possible
Think will only boost it rather than use it on a schedule this year
Mrs has got a blanket out. Hell must have frozen over
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
I don't know for sure yet, alf but I guess it might be highly likely.
Then again, I do remember the BG man 'doing something with wiring'..
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
Aww, poor puss..
See that on the internet about how much it puts a strain on our bodies if we're too cold for too long?
Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
Going to conduct an experiment tomorrow
At the mo the air cons come.on heating at 3am downstairs until 6 to get the downstairs nice for the girls in the cheap electric hours
Instead I've turned them down to 20 degree (22 previous) and they will remain on 03:00-2200
The upstairs unit only the kids rooms come on 17:15-18:15 so toasty for bedtime
Instead them (and the loft) will come on from 07:00 until 18:00 /15
All at ,20 degree
I'm going to see roughly how much electric they use for basically all day
They have inverter tech so once the room is that temp they use bugger all electric and removes moisture from air
So will see. Perfect test day as wife is out so can't complain she is hot, I obviously built up a balance in the account and still on cheap rate so good to get an idea of usage as to see what's better that or turning on the boiler come Feb.
Will be interested to see what the results are
At the mo the air cons come.on heating at 3am downstairs until 6 to get the downstairs nice for the girls in the cheap electric hours
Instead I've turned them down to 20 degree (22 previous) and they will remain on 03:00-2200
The upstairs unit only the kids rooms come on 17:15-18:15 so toasty for bedtime
Instead them (and the loft) will come on from 07:00 until 18:00 /15
All at ,20 degree
I'm going to see roughly how much electric they use for basically all day
They have inverter tech so once the room is that temp they use bugger all electric and removes moisture from air
So will see. Perfect test day as wife is out so can't complain she is hot, I obviously built up a balance in the account and still on cheap rate so good to get an idea of usage as to see what's better that or turning on the boiler come Feb.
Will be interested to see what the results are
Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
House has been comfortable all day, turned up to 22 but reduced downstairs at 9 back to 20 as that's warm enough for us
Ran out of battery at 14:30 however did do an extra wash and 2 tumbles in that (heat pump) with slow cooker on for dinner , also a dishwasher and cooked breakfast in air fryer / toaster
Recharged to powerwall to 25% just incase of a powercut at any point tonight..programmed not to feed the house now unless grid goes out
Will be interesting to see final figure , it's 32kw ATM.. up from 25kw normally. 6 hours of day to go as I'll turn the powerwall back onto feeding the house at 9 when not much is left on .. that 32 does include the powerwall starting to refill aswell which I could have left .. so that's 3.37kw in there waiting.
Ran out of battery at 14:30 however did do an extra wash and 2 tumbles in that (heat pump) with slow cooker on for dinner , also a dishwasher and cooked breakfast in air fryer / toaster
Recharged to powerwall to 25% just incase of a powercut at any point tonight..programmed not to feed the house now unless grid goes out
Will be interesting to see final figure , it's 32kw ATM.. up from 25kw normally. 6 hours of day to go as I'll turn the powerwall back onto feeding the house at 9 when not much is left on .. that 32 does include the powerwall starting to refill aswell which I could have left .. so that's 3.37kw in there waiting.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
20? 22?!?
My eldest had a friend to sleep over last night and I treated them to the heating at 18 for 3 hours. Normally 16 for 2 at most. Back down to 10 around the clock now - they want a warm house for their friends they can see that it needs to be balanced out with a week of no heating for them.
My eldest had a friend to sleep over last night and I treated them to the heating at 18 for 3 hours. Normally 16 for 2 at most. Back down to 10 around the clock now - they want a warm house for their friends they can see that it needs to be balanced out with a week of no heating for them.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
No offence but is this a joke?YorksHammer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:32 pm they want a warm house for their friends they can see that it needs to be balanced out with a week of no heating for them.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
Finally cracked. Only because we've got builders doing our bedroom ceiling tomorrow and will need a bit of heat for plaster and paint to dry.
Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
The results are in
Enough on battery to cover the rest of the day so the usage figures are calculated
40kw usage today
Normal usage is an average of 25kw
So 15kw to run the HVAC for the hours
It's been toasty all day
15kw at the cap price of 34p is £5.10
£5.10 at 10.3p a kw for gas is 49.52kw , which on my 24 KW boiler is roughly 2 hours of heating
Obviously I'm still on 14p electric so the little experiment cost £2.1 to try out
However if heat pumps could provide combi boiler style hot water (as I have no place for a hot water tank) I would 100% get a heat pump and ditch gas.
Edit should add with above figures if I was running a heat pump I prob wouldn't run all day either so this was extreme figures.
Enough on battery to cover the rest of the day so the usage figures are calculated
40kw usage today
Normal usage is an average of 25kw
So 15kw to run the HVAC for the hours
It's been toasty all day
15kw at the cap price of 34p is £5.10
£5.10 at 10.3p a kw for gas is 49.52kw , which on my 24 KW boiler is roughly 2 hours of heating
Obviously I'm still on 14p electric so the little experiment cost £2.1 to try out
However if heat pumps could provide combi boiler style hot water (as I have no place for a hot water tank) I would 100% get a heat pump and ditch gas.
Edit should add with above figures if I was running a heat pump I prob wouldn't run all day either so this was extreme figures.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
'Twas very cold in the house at 0530 this morning. Turned heating on, it got warm, so I turned it off again.
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Re: Central Heating 20/21 Season
First frost of the winter here in the Shire.
Logs chopped at 7.30am this morning ready for this evening's first EuMB of the World Cup.
Logs chopped at 7.30am this morning ready for this evening's first EuMB of the World Cup.