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Central heating and temperature increase

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Tasnzari09 · 25/11/2023 10:22

I wonder whether any of the wise bees here can help me with my query below.

Our house temperature dropped to 14° over night so I turned on the heating around 7:15 am (an indoor day for us), but 3 hours from then the temperature increased to 15.8°. Should it take this long to increase by not even 2°? Do we need to get anything checked out as the house does not feel that cold?

All the radiators are hot to touch and there is no cold top or bottom. The boiler is combi but installed before 2010.

The house is a 3 bed end of terrace. I am unsure about the wall type and when the house was built as our building surveyor wrote cavity wall in his report, but the EPC says it is solid brick. We will be adding loft insulation soon as it is not enough.

We have recently installed hive thermostat so we are able to better control the heating this winter, but I am not so sure about it now.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

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TooManyBastardingFucksToGive · 25/11/2023 12:10

What temperature do you have the thermostat set to?

Ridingthegravytrain · 25/11/2023 12:26

Depends where the main thermostat is and what temp it's set to. If the boiler was running for 3 hrs as the house hasn't reached temp then that's terrible. But I think that's unlikely if all rads are hot.

Check your boiler flow temp and make sure all radiators are balanced.

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