How many hours a week is your heating on?

[ChoccieEgg49]

We are averaging 23-33 hours per week going by my app from Nov-Mar, which equates to approx 4 hours a day give or take.

Is this average? Excessive? I've no idea. Our bills are still ridiculous though. I try to use the log burner as often as possible.

Obviously everyone's situation/home size/insulation levels are different, I understand that, but it just got me wondering.

how many hours a week is your heating on for?

Not for 2 months or so live in the South and top floor flat!

My app tells me the heating was on for 106 hours in November, 176 hours in December, 192 hours in January, 91 hours in February and only 11 hours so far in March. But I have been away for 10 days of this month!!

The system is set to maintain 22 degrees in the day whenever I’m at home, or within 5 Kms of home, and 18 degrees at night. It maintains 16 degrees when I’m more than 5kms from home.

Taking the whole months only that’s around 141 hours a month or roughly 33 hours a week I think.

"The people who say "not been on at all" do make me laugh. Its not a competition"

No, it's not a competition, but it's not a laughing matter either. I am sure those posters would love to have the heating on for hours every day, I know I would. But lots of us just can't afford it. Lucky you that you can.

You could just compare your usage in kwh to the average for your property size.

www.britishgas.co.uk/energy/guides/average-bill.html

Not everyone has a 'heating app.' 🙄

I definitely do not.

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LOL. I don't know anyone who has a heating app either! Though some people clearly do as a few people on this thread appear to have one!

1-3 hours a week max here, warm house!

Approx 15 hours. More than I would expect at this time of year.

No idea, thermostat is set to 24C but it’s otherwise left on all the time and it goes on and off to maintain.

Ours has been on for 21 hours over the last week which is quite a bit for us. DH works from home but doesn't mind the cold. I'm more sensitive to it so have been cranking it up more than usual as I've felt quite cold recently.

Ours is more like 7 hours morning and evening, unless working from home then it’s on all day.

4-9.30pm daily but depending on what we're doing and how cold it is we have it on earlier too.

Well, obviously. There is a fairly general level at which health is affected even if you claim not to feel cold, and at which your house starts to suffer though.

All the time every day since November. But it's set at 18 and don't ever turn it up. DP really feels the cold. Last winter I turned it on and off and we were freezing most of the time. This seems to work better, house seems to hold the heat.

Err okay. Now I understand why my bills are so high!! Mine is set to 23c so it's only pretty much all th time!

I've no idea. We have tado thermostats on every radiator. Each room is timed with our typical usage for each day. We both work from home and so have prey fixed routines. It has halved our gas bill.

It's going to be a lot different if you're in Lerwick or on the south coast. Ours is on about an hour a day the moment. Pain in the arse, nor warm / dry enough to dry clothes outside, too wet to dry outside. London.

An hour or so when we get up and during awake hours in evening once home. So approx 5hrs a day when really cold and longer at weekends if home when it's cold. Now it is milder it will rapidly reduce.

No heating app here, just generally guessing how often the heating clicks on. I presumed that's what we were all doing!

It's moisture and lack of ventilation that wrecks homes, not just the fact it might be 14-15 degrees rather than 17-18. If your place is dry and well ventilated, temperature isn't overly relevant. Poorly built homes that suffer from water ingress, dampness, and so on, also tend to suffer from poor insulation and heat retention, and will usually experience mould, hence why there is a correlation between cold homes, damage caused by moisture, and poor health.

If your house is dry, whether it's a dry 16 degrees or a dry 20 degrees doesn't really matter.

Never. We don't use it at all. It eats gas, and is an ancient shit system that only actually warms 3 of the radiators, 2 in the kitchen and one behind the couch. Upstairs barely get lukewarm so we don't waste the money.I
We do own a definitive and massive collection of hot water bottles, blankets, and woolly clothes though!

No app. Our boiler is on timed for 4 hours a day, 6-8am, 4-6pm (28 total a week) with the thermostat set to 20°. I've noticed over the last 3-4 weeks it's not clicking in until around 5pm though so realistically 3 hours a day since mid Feb. South Midlands, 1920's end terrace.

Thermostat set to 20 so comes on/off as needed. Also have aircon in each room which has a heating system too so that goes on if its very cold to warm the room up quickly. Our house isn't very well/ evenly insulated.

Holy hell, 50 hours? 🫤

just checked my Nest history:

Mon 4 Mar - Sun 10 Mar inclusive I clocked up 3 hours and 15 mins. 4 of the days were no usage at all.

The last 4 days has been about 6-7 hours but that’s only really because I was drying washing, and if I don’t pop it on the radiators then it will smell!

I can’t see further back than that on my usage but I rarely have it on more than an hour a day, and had zero usage days even through Dec/Jan/Feb.

Disclaimer: I do use a fan heater sometimes to take the chill off the air in the room I’m in if it’s necessary (which it often isn’t at this time of year, and onesies/oodies do a marvellous job in winter). Fan heaters are far cheaper to run and I find them much more effective at heating a room quickly.

I run quite cold and have converted DP to also prefer it cooler now 🤣

24 is so hot to keep a house at though! I'd be roasting in there.