How long do you have heating on?

[lottielooinwonderland]

Hello anyone reading,

It's very cold at the moment. Our living room loses a lot of heat, but during the day I have the thermostat set to 17 degrees. It's cold but I'm trying to save monies. However the heating still kicks in consistently during the day to even keep it at that. I put it to 20.5 usually around 4pm until about 11pm as I need a bit of cosiness during the evening.
As a result our heating is on for roughly 9 hours a day during these freezing days, how long is yours on for?

P.s we have a nest smart heating system.

Woooow!! I had no idea I could click on the day and see the breakdown of when it's turning on. THANK YOU!!!

@Unforgettablefire @PanettoneMoly we have electric underfloor heating which is amazing. 30 minutes and room is roasting

We don't use it now though as have had a log burner fitted but when we did it heated the house very quickly.

Do not all are useless, it actually heated the house much quicker than the oil radiators.

Put it on for the first time in the last week as I've not been well and it's totally freezing. Kept it on for about 7 hours, to about 17/18c. Has cost £10 that day. Other days I've had it on for about 4 hours, costing £7.

Those of you not using your heating do you have any damp?
If I don't use mine everything feels cold and damp, and if I put the radiators on and put clothing on them I can really feel the damp coming off them when they heat up.
Cold is one thing but damp is just horrible it's the one thing I can't bear.

@Ricco12 my friends mothers house was an old council block of flats, they're demolished now but I remember the underfloor heating was electric and cost a fortune. Going back over 40 years now god I feel old.

An hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. I counteract the cold with an electric throw on the sofa and a halogen heater. Oodies. Socks. It's shit. It's been harder than I anticipated largely because we've had significant snow this week and it's been around -9/10 every morning. Hoping for some mild now.

How much higher are everyone’s rates compared with last winter and are they actually higher once you factor in the government help of £66?

Yes, this. I mean, luckily for my ego, we weren’t the actual idiots, it was like this when we bought it 3 years ago but we have no radiators downstairs at all and may as well have no heating there whatsoever

I shall also probably point out the previous owners shoved the system under most-likely inefficient wooden floors. And also one room is tiny so very little floor space to let the heat circulate, and the other has an extension with full width bi-fold doors which may also not help the situation. I imagine in better thought through cases it does indeed work a treat

@Unforgettablefire oh yes it's most definitely not cheap to run and in the current energy crisis I think if we were to use it , our bills would be off the scale.

It heats the home well but comes at a hefty price tag.

We don't use as we have a log burner but we did used to use it, only if we came home say and house was freezing we would put it on to heat the house quickly then leave oil radiators on.

It's not cost affective that's for sure.

Gas is twice as higher, direct debit payments than over the summer. Electricity is little changed and the 66 payment basically covers most of the electric bill , so not too bad at the moment. Separate gas and power providers

Pretty much all day atm be good when cold snap ends for a bit

About two hours most evenings some evenings we don't put any rads on at all, I have a wood burner in the sitting room which is going a few days of the week

Log burner burning from 7am till bed time. Keeps the whole downstairs at a steady 24 degrees.

Upstairs / downstairs radiators on 0600-0700 so house isn't freezing to wake up to - oil not gas.

Wow. How much is your monthly bill

assume not on 10p and a low fixed rate

Last winter was paying 3p now 10p so price is 3 times as much

I have cut down lots but last years useage was way more as on most of day but was around £80

now use 2/3 less but bill is 3 times more

Well annual bills will have doubled, so unless you were paying £400 or less a year before, so now paying £800 ((-£400 government help) then you will be paying more. We are very low users and still pay over £1000 a year.

Recently as it's been so cold, it's pretty much been on all day from about 6am. Thermostat is set to 20 and it wasn't reaching that even after 7-8hrs of constant heating. Maybe putting it off for an hour or 2 about 2pm and then back on for another 4-5 hrs in the evening. Also set to come on overnight if drops below 15 and we were waking up to 13 degrees and it was just horrible.

I reckon that must add up to 13-14hrs a day. I dread to see this months bill! Got a lot in credit though so hopefully that will see us through winter months.

Don't know. It goes on when temperature is below 18 degrees during working hours and at night. In the evening when it's below 20, but we keep it on 21 most of the time. I'd say 3-4 hours a day (?).

The most ours has come on for is 5hours total. Yesterday back down to 45minutes and so far today it shows as only 12minutes.

First time ever recently. None 😁😁

and not cold

ftom -8 to 14 in 2 days

My son has wet underfloor heating that’s heated from the hot water
his building has a ground source heat pump that heats the water and other eco friendly stuff

so his heating is really cheap to run

cost him about £10 £12 a week to heat it and keep it at around 19 degrees
it’s very well insulated despite double height ceilings and balcony doors

he’s actually just turned it off today as it was to hot but the flat will retain the heat for a few days

We have (electric) under floor in the part of our kitchen that has been extended (not a big area, but lots of glass and a tiled floor, so it gets cold) and it costs roughly 40p per hour to have it on - just a small area, we nearly extended to the whole of downstairs and am very glad we didn't!

I have been paying close attention to what we're spending (Hive Plus) and, in our case, it costs significantly more to have the heating set all day at 16 than it does to just have the heating on when we need it. It's essentially £1 per hour that we have it on. We have a very new (and quite snazzy boiler), so it may be different with older boilers.

2 hours in the morning (before work). 5 hours in the evening (after work).
Thermostat set to 20 degrees C.

I used to have it on for longer in the evening but I reduced it by an hour and encouraged myself to sleep earlier. Makes me feel so much more refreshed in the morning so win-win!

one hour in the morning, 2 hours late afternoon.

house is A rating, as DH insisted on doing it pre pandemic.