Have you put your heating on yet?

[cerb4.5lee]

ooid said:

There is only one solution to this for ages.

Use as many as holidays, half terms or any other accidental long weekends to go somewhere warmer in Europe. Life is really too short to waste your time in a soggy - damp climate, sitting indoors being miserable.

That is what we're trying to do as well. We went to Lanzarote for a week in Feb and got great weather, and we've just been to Rhodes for a week in May, and we had great weather there too. We have 2 weeks in Turkey to look forward too as well.

I reckon moving abroad in retirement is a good shout as well, because the UK is just such a sodding miserable place to live as you say weather wise.

[croyde]

I'm back to wearing a coat whilst sat watching telly in the evening, plus switching my electric blanket on for an hour before I head for bed.

It's nearly middle of June FFS! SW London.

Off to Tenerife for 3 weeks end of this month. I might just resign my job and stay.

[B'stard Child]

UTH said:

I noticed something that baffled me yesterday.
In the winter months, I set the living room to 20 and leave it at that 24/7, so the room is more or less 20 all the time. But I'm pretty much always in tracksuit bottoms/jeans etc.....basically anything but shorts. And usually a t-shirt, but sometimes with a jumper, because it's winter and despite being 20 in the room, it never feels particularly warm.

Yesterday, because I've turned the heating off, the living room was only showing 19......but I was in shorts and t-shirt with no problem and never felt I needed to move to trousers. Is this simply a mental thing because my brain knows it's June so SURELY I'm warm enough to be in shorts?

I think it's the rate of change that makes it more comfortable at cooler temps in warmer months

Before we insulated under the floor - in winter we would need the living room to be 22 or 23 deg to be comfortable - since then 19-20 has been fine.

It was 17 in the living room yesterday so the heating went on - once it got to 18 it was already comfortable (not toasty but comfortable)

[Mikey G]

My thermostat is set to 17 in the morning and hasnt tripped on since the end of the first week of May, just checked Hive this morning and it was close to coming on at 6am as indoor temp was exactly 17, has shot up to 18 since the sun has come round....

[dhutch]

Mikey G said:

My thermostat is set to 17 in the morning and hasnt tripped on since the end of the first week of May, just checked Hive this morning and it was close to coming on at 6am as indoor temp was exactly 17, has shot up to 18 since the sun has come round....

We had to tweek our setback from 17 to 16 a week ago to prevent a morning trip, but roll on 7 days and this past weekend has been lovely!

[markiii]

I used to leave mine on setback all year. Then I realised it was coming on for a bit on cold mornings when in the real world it would have warmed in it's own an hour later.

And despite being colder felt just fine due to the sun

I turn it off completely in April now and it rarely goes back on til october

[dhutch]

A lot of insurance policies require a minimum heating temp, all be it obviously intended for winter spells.

However we also have two dogs including an elderly greyhound cross, so if it actually is below 15-16c, some heating isnt stupid.

But yeah. also galling to have chuck £40 of gas at a problem which was always going to go away by 10am with the sun!

[loafer123]

Modern boiler control systems have weather compensation and will adjust for this automatically.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Alot don't take forcast into account and just use the ntc to give outside temp, some of the smart controls tado evohomd etc kinda do it but from my experience not very well

[gotoPzero]

24 in the hall way today, 26 outside.

By the weekend.... meant to be 15-16c again.. FFS.

The only good thing is it takes about 2 days for the slab to cool down (or heat up) so hopefully we will get a few days where the house stays warm.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

We are ranging 23.8 - 28 and 26.5 outside I've eaten a box of mini milks

[B'stard Child]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

We are ranging 23.8 - 28 and 26.5 outside I've eaten a box of mini milks

Lowest 23 - highest 26

It’s 27.5 outside

I’m waiting for Mrs BC to cook dinner (it’s her turn)

[dhutch]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Alot don't take forcast into account and just use the ntc to give outside temp, some of the smart controls tado evohomd etc kinda do it but from my experience not very well

Yeah, we don't have the weather comp thermistor for the vessmann boiler, but we do have Wiser heating control, which should know better, but basically doesn't.

[Hoofy]

I think the only time you can't do anything about it is when the battery in the remote CH controller goes. I understand it will set the CH to max and switch it on 24/7. I get that in winter this is good but in summer, it will do the same.

[Sheepshanks]

Hoofy said:

I think the only time you can't do anything about it is when the battery in the remote CH controller goes. I understand it will set the CH to max and switch it on 24/7. I get that in winter this is good but in summer, it will do the same.

It would be astonishing if that's correct. Imagine you were away for a while?

[dhutch]

Sheepshanks said:

It would be astonishing if that's correct. Imagine you were away for a while?

Ditto.

[markiii]

dhutch said:

A lot of insurance policies require a minimum heating temp, all be it obviously intended for winter spells.

However we also have two dogs including an elderly greyhound cross, so if it actually is below 15-16c, some heating isnt stupid.

But yeah. also galling to have chuck £40 of gas at a problem which was always going to go away by 10am with the sun!

true, I should clarify when I say off, I just put the thermostats into off mode which still comers on if it drops passed the frostat setting

[dhutch]

dhutch said:

Sheepshanks said:

Hoofy said:

I think the only time you can't do anything about it is when the battery in the remote CH controller goes. I understand it will set the CH to max and switch it on 24/7. I get that in winter this is good but in summer, it will do the same.

It would be astonishing if that's correct. Imagine you were away for a while?

Ditto.

Well in an amazing twist of coincidence, given the batteries last a few years, yesterday I got home to the Wiser thermostat flashing red for low battery, and this morning I woke up to a notification on my phone that it's gone offline.

And given last weeks heatwave is over, I can confirm that not heating fired up, and the house is brutally cold just like it was yesterday morning! 16.5deg in the living room.

[skwdenyer]

dhutch said:

dhutch said:

Sheepshanks said:

Hoofy said:

I think the only time you can't do anything about it is when the battery in the remote CH controller goes. I understand it will set the CH to max and switch it on 24/7. I get that in winter this is good but in summer, it will do the same.

It would be astonishing if that's correct. Imagine you were away for a while?

Ditto.

Well in an amazing twist of coincidence, given the batteries last a few years, yesterday I got home to the Wiser thermostat flashing red for low battery, and this morning I woke up to a notification on my phone that it's gone offline.

And given last weeks heatwave is over, I can confirm that not heating fired up, and the house is brutally cold just like it was yesterday morning! 16.5deg in the living room.

I've been in London for 10 days, where I was absolutely sweltering doing building maintenance work. Now back in the Yorkshire Dales and the living room is 16 degrees and falling right now. We may have to light the stove! The forecast is for overnight lows of 7 degrees this week...

[princeperch]

Put the stove on today for 2 or 3 hrs as the living room just felt too cold, despite the room temperature being 20 degrees.

Not in the highlands of Scotland either, suburban east london.