That's hot! I dont usually have the heating on during the day, If the lounge drops below 18 I might put it on for an hour. SWMBO insists on 20* in the evenings but I'm happy with 19.
When I staggered back from the pub last night on my bike it was sweltering
Mmm, 16C is cool-but-not-cold and 17C is OK-but-not-warm. Anything more than 18C and I start twitching with anxiety at the thought of squandering resources[1]
Can't honestly remember the last time I had any red meat, stopped eating it in 1993 after a 3 month backpacking trip around the world spending 6 weeks in China, meat didn't really feature in the street food. I did have some fish a year or so back when I was hungry and could only find a chippy.
Are you really sure? That seems like and awful lot of heat going somewhere. Maybe you like it tropical though...
If my maths are right to burn that amount of oil in 16 days would require a 25kW boiler to run flat out 24/7.
(16*24)*25 =3D 9600kW Oil produces about 10kW/l so 9600/10 =3D 960l.
Sure you haven't got an oil leak? Have you got the windows open?
Ah, looking at your figures 17th Dec to today is 21 days not 16.
960/21 =3D 45l/day. Still rather high though, the notional 24/7 boiler drops to 19kW.
It's not been very warm here either, between 0 and -5C for the last few weeks. I know the Highlands have been colder, -10 to -15C, but I don't think it would increase oil consumption that much, would it?
I wish! Well, no I don't, but no, it certainly isn't hot in here.
Whoops, yes, you're right. Our supplier works on the basis that we use
53l per day, at the coldest times of the year.
To be fair, we're heating a house plus adjoining shop, with door constantly opening and closing. House is solid granite walls, cool in summer, 'kin freezing in winter.
The house is quite large, but we only heat the parts we use. Frost settings on the rad stats keep the pipes unfrozen in the rest of the house. The problem is original Victorian single glazed sash windows. They had a major renovation this summer, which is good in that they open, for the first time in generations, but the down side is that draughts come in the parts that used to be stuck with multiple coats of paint. I'm planning to try some of the cling film type double glazing applied with a hair dryer, as others have recommended.
MY very well insulated but somewhat large house has a heatloss of 10Kw at -5C for 19C internal. That's what the heating engineer said. And that is to 2000 building regs. AND it takes no account of windchill. They insisted on venting the concrete raised floors!!
And yes, if I didn't light the fires Id be running the 12Kw boiler 24x7 to keep up.
So I can easily concede 25Kw+ continuous on an older property.
In-laws have very large old house and that's what they run at..bloody great 40Kw boiler needed in that.
And open fires, too.
average temp in the UK is low teens its only 4-5 degrees above that in winter/spring that you need to heat.
Now, its maybe 25 degrees temp rise you need. 5 times more power.
I don't know how to calculate such things as heat loss, and would probably depress myself if I could. What I can say is that the temp. here is -15 outside this morning, and we struggle to keep the house at
Exactly: heatloss is roughly a function of the temp difference. You cant make more that 30 degrees over ambient. I am not surprised. Most house are not designed to do that. My requirement was for -5C out, 20C in. I was assured this was standard practice. That's 25C rise.
Many people will struggle and have boilers going 24x7 if we get average temps below -5C.
In the last 30 seconds I've got 49p/l (CA9 3). 5-10 working days delivery time. I've never found BJ competitive compared to the local suppler who is generally 1 to 2p cheaper than the other suppliers in the area and BJ above them...
I guess it depends on where you are an if anybody else near by has ordered. They do say club together to get a better price but I'd rather support our local business.
The biggest snag is "Please note the smallest tanker available is a 6 wheel rear steer." I presume that means six axles rather than wheels... ie one of the big beggers that you see at petrol stations. I *think* they could get it here but it would have to reverse down the road a bit and back up an ice covered track to turn around, on a blind corner...
Reading some of the other articles, I see I neglected to mention about 180W of PC/router/switch/monitor/etc incidental heating too.
Yesterday, aircon usage was higher as it was colder outside and the room started off colder in the morning too (I switched central heating off before room got up to temperature). Aircon used 3.5 units. Now I've found it can still grab lots of heat from outside and chuck it into the room when it't -5C outside, I'm even more impressed with it.
Nothing philosophical or ideological, I'll eat meat if it's put in front of me. I just seem to have got out of the habit of buying it. I used to eat Frosties for breakfast, then one day noticed I hadn't bought any for several months. Same with meat.
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