How many hours a day is your heating on?

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I work out of the home. Mine is on for an hour in the morning and 3 hours in the evening but I'm finding it feels even colder than last winter at the moment (in northern England)

How many hours is yours set to go on at the moment?

40 mins in the morning and 1 hour 20 mins evening. Set at 19. I realise this is not enough but in tight financial position at the moment.

I find I am cold on days off, later on in the evenings and when I get up on work days.

Ideally I would have it on for four hours a day set at 21. Sadly not an option.

Maybe I just need to suck it up and have the heating on more. I have a Hive and it's been getting down to 14 in the hallway where the thermostat is, I had the heating on for 2 hours last night and it only got up to 16.5... I think I will move the thermostat downstairs where it's wamer anyway and try not to look at it so much!

Luckily I have a log burner so the living room is toasty when I'm home, I just don't want to get damp in the colder rooms. Victorian houses are pretty, but really not well insulated!!

DH retired and not very mobile, I'm out at work during working day. Thermostat controlled to 21° 6am-9pm 16° 9pm-6am

20 day & night when we’re in the house. Out all day 18.5.
Boost when we want it hotter.

We don’t have a thermostat, it comes on at 0600-0830, and 1530-2200. At the weekends if it’s cold during the day it goes on. We are all out during the day in the week.

16

It’s pointless setting it to 19 for 40 minutes as it’s unlikely to get up to temperature, the house probably goes up 1 degree and then in the evening it spends the whole hour trying and failing again to get up to 19.

You would likely be better setting it to 17-18 and leaving it on all day. It will be more pleasant and in total the boiler will be on a similar amount of time.

Ours is set to 15 when no one is home then turned up to 20 when we are in then back down to 15 before bed

Ours is set at 17 in the day and 14 at night so it comes on whenever the room needs to get to that temp. It's been blasting out at 3am. I think maybe need to turn it lower!

I think the best thing you can do if this is about money is hire a thermal camera for a weekend. That way you can see if your house is leaking heat. Once you plug up those gaps then you lose less heat and hopefully your heating is on less. For us that was new weather strips on the door thresholds, ie your front door. We also had some gaps when we took up the floor and filled those in too.

We did discover that there was an area of our loft not insulated when we pointed the camera at our bedroom ceiling so we rectified that. We also insulated the loft hatch as the whole loft was insulated but then there are air bricks up there and a shitty wooden loft hatch letting cold air just drop down.

We bought our camera as we wanted to be able to go back and check that all the things we did helped. Our heating bill definitely went down after that.

19 degrees between 6.00am & 8.30am
14 degrees between 8.30am -4.30pm
20 degrees between 4.30pm - 10.00pm

I don't understand why anyone would have it set to a thermostat all day, even during times when you're not at home. My thermostat is set to 19, but on a work day the boiler timer is set to only let the heating come on between 6 and 7:30 a.m. and then from 4:45 to 10pm. When we are home at the weekend, I just switch it to 'on' and switch it off at bed time.

About 3 hours in the evening, we're Northern too. Goes on from about 5.30pm to 8.30pm, just to take the absolute chill of the place. This is definitely CoL related.

Some houses can take you hours to warm up if the temperature gets too cold. I was chatting to a man today who has an old house and he was saying he has to leave his heating on at night when it gets this cold.

Timer is set 5:00am to 9:00pm, we are home in the day, and up early.

mines on hive

We heat the house to 17.5 for about 90 mins in the morning and 2 hours in the evening. I bring it up to 16 from 4pm
The rest of the time we keep it at 13.5 / 14.

Yesterday it spent 6h 32 mins on
On wednesday it was on for 5 h 19 mins
Tuesday 6 hours.

When its really cold it's often on for 8+ hours a day (mostly maintaining 14c)
Last night it turned itself on every 2 hours

We find once its below 13.5 it takes ages to heat so we dont let it drop below that.

Except for when we are away over winter and buy turning it "off" it keeps it above 7. Last Xmas it took less than 24 hours to have dropped to 7, and was coming on and off a few times a day.

.... the joys of living in a solid stone 300y old farm house, high in the middle of no where in Yorkshire. Its listed so we are not allowed decent doors / windows etc.

(Downstairs we have an aga on 24/7, and a real stove that we use when we are here, so downstairs is always warmer, and our thermostat is upstairs and keeps upstairs at those temperatures)

This for us too. Though I may up the temp when DH is away/at work and reset before he walks in the door 🤣

Fortunately, we have a thermostat.

It depends what kind of thermostat you have.

Many modern combi boilers don’t. have a timer. The thermostat does and you can have it at different temperatures throughout the day.

Mine's on for about 12 hours these colder days, set to around 19c.

Ive lived in times when we couldn't afford to have the heating on much (and or it was crap) so i dont hold back now. Luxury is a warm home and I appreciate every bloody degree 😆

40 mins in the morning and 3 hours in the evening. But I also have a log burner in the sitting room.

The central heating provides background warmth and airs the rooms. The log burner provides the real heat

Heating is on all day on the thermostat at 17°. DH mostly works from home and seems comfortable at this temperature, but my workplace is absolutely freezing and I have problems regulating my temperature, so I boost it to 18-19° when I get home if I need to.

I've just checked on Hive and it shows our heating is active for 2-3 hours per day depending on the outside temp.

We invested in a smart thermostat system where each radiator can demand from the boiler separately. We have different zones so the rooms are always warm at the times we need without heating the whole house when we're in one room and no running around making sure radiators are on or off or forgetting to turn the thermostat down before going out. It cost about £200 which we saved in the first winter.
I can boost individual zones as needed if we change schedule.
We generally have it set to 20 when we're in a room or 16 when we're not and everything drops to 14 overnight but it's lovely to have the bedroom at 21 for the half hour after we wake up. By some magic it can tell the outside temperature and works out how long it will take to warm up and lose heat and the boiler adjusts when it cuts in and out 🤷

As many as it needs to be to get to the temperature the thermostat is set to (20 degrees).

One hour morning and five hours late afternoon/evening, thermostat set at 18 I think! DH works from home and if cold during the day sits wrapped in a heated blanket 😆