Heating advice

[Waitingforthecold]

We moved in to our home this year (up until this point always been in house shares and not got involved with heating 🤣)

we generally run warm so in terms of a personal need for heating to go on we probably have quite a high threshold but we want to make sure we are looking after the house right (it’s old, probably prone to damp etc.)

so my question is, what’s you’re heating schedule? What temp do you let it get to outside before putting it on? How many hours a day? When in the day? What temp? Feels like a minefield!

I have set the heating to come on currently (it’s sitting at between 12-16 degrees outside where we are atm) thermostat set to 20 degrees, comes on 6.45-8.15am and then again 7-8.15pm. Does that sound about right?

20 is on the high side. We have it set to 18.

It comes on in your house at 6.45 to 7.45 and then again 3.30 to 4.30 (young children).

Are you working from home or out the house? What time do you come home?

we don't yet need the heating on in the morning but have had it on for an hour most evenings for the past couple of weeks. In the winter months we have it on for an hour in the morning and a couple of hours in the evening.

Should’ve said we also have a young baby. Mixture of WFH and being out, I definitely don’t feel a need to have it on in the day. The times were set mainly with drying the towels in mind after morning showers / evening baths tbh!

our heating is different upstairs and downstairs. Downstairs it is set to 20. Upstairs it's on 18 otherwise it gets too hot. But ours doesn't click in whenever it drops below 20 degrees, that would cost a fortune. It just goes on at 20 for an hour (or longer if we click it on again - it goes on for an hour at a time)

When are you in the house?

Most insurance suggests a minimum of 10 at all times

And then it's personal preference between 18 and 22 when you are up and about at home

Ours works on a thermostat so it might never come on or be on all day depending

Yeah it’s not coming on when it drops below 20, just in the assigned times!

it differs day to day but I’d say at least 3 days a week someone is home all day. Then on other days we are probably out the house 9-4 on average!

I will turn it down to 18 as a start anyway! Thanks!