Can you share your hive heating schedules please before DH bankrupts us!

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We don't have hive plus so just a standard schedule. DH has set a schedule TW here it's at a minimum of 19 degrees at all times. Even overnight. 🙈

Weekday and weekend.

We keep the house fairly cool. I wear a lot of layers, use blankets and have heated blankets for the bed and sofa. DP runs v warm so needs a cool house.

I pay around £100 a month year round for gas and elec combined. We don't have kids.

I'll also boost it to 17 or 18 for an hour when really feeling the chill. Maybe a few times a week in winter.

Useful reading this. We got a hive thermostat earlier this year (somewhat spontaneously as our timer needed replacing when I explained a problem during our boiler service) and I haven't yet reviewed how I'm going to use it this winter. A lot of our house is underused when our children are away at uni at the moment - how have people found using hive thermostatic radiator valves? I should probably look into whether getting them would work for us.

We currently use a couple of electric radiators for spot heating - one in the study whenever DH is working at home, for about 10 months of the year, the other to warm up where I teach if we're not heating the whole house.

We have the Wiser system with TRVs on every radiator. We set the system to warm a room to 19C if someone is in the room (except overnight when we allow it to freefall, officially it's set to 10C but the house rarely drops below 16C) so we have different schedules for every room. This is our first winter with it so don't know how much it will save us but since we are heating less of the house during the day it should. Cost us just under £600 for controllers and TRVs for 12 radiators.

I don't know what Hive is, and I've no idea what temperature the house is. But heating is on approx 6.30am to 8am, and then again 4pm to 10pm. It seems to be fine. If you're cold, you put the heat on - if you're too warm, you turn it off. So your body tells you!

Our heating will be set to come on 7am to 8.30 then is off all day until approx 6 to 9pm. Defintely no heating overnight. We wear layers or use heated throws during the day unless really cold. Temp set at 17.
Central Scotland.

20 through the day and 16 at night. I wfh and DS has physical disabilities and needs to stay warm. I don't do cold.

We have ours set to maintain 19c but have two separate thermostats and the upstairs is switched off completely , heat rises from downstairs plus floor to ceiling south facing windows in bedrooms mean it’s always warm enough - can you just turn off a radiator ?

I've only just started using Hive so have only had it on for short periods

Prior to this we had a programmable thermostat, like a Hive but no wi-fi

We used to keep it at 14 at night. It only ever come on once when it snowed

Due to shifts we regularly have boiler going at 3.30 am and it does cost a fortune

But all the time ,? Noooo

Ours is set to come on at 5.30am (DH is an early riser and it gets the house warm for the rest of us getting up from 6.15am onwards). It goes off at 8.00am when most of us leave the house.

DH works from home so it comes on at 12.30pm and off again at 1.30pm.

Then on again at 4pm when DS arrives home, off at about 8.30pm.

Boost if we need it.

We set it at 20 degrees at the moment (I may raise it slightly when it gets really cold). But, obviously, it doesn't come on if the thermostat shows above that temperature.

It's only kicked in this week in the mornings as our house is well insulated so doesn't get very cold.

Even overnight it only drops to about 16-18 degrees if it's been cold.

When we had a power cut one February and the boiler didn't spark into life, it only dropped to 14 degrees overnight in the house so was manageable if a bit cold!

Not Hive but similar. We have ours set at 18 during the day (we’re at home most days) starting from about 30 minutes before we wake up. Then it goes to 14 from about 10pm and all through the night.

if we were out of the house all day then I’d have it dropping to 14 for most of the day and coming on about half and hour before we arrive home.

But if you're setting the temperature to 19 overnight then heating will come on when the temperature in the house drops below this which it will during the night unless you have super insulation