OT - central heating turn on

Yep. And she opened the windows!

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ARWadsworth
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This is true, a while after we moved in we went away for a few days and switched the heating off. It took the best part of 4 days for the place to become comfortable again. The air temp was OK but the heat was just been sucked into the walls.

It will be interesting to see what difference the new 50mm of phenolic foam insulation on the exterior walls makes to reheat times and fuel bills. We've not insulated the 20 tonnes or so solid stone wall that runs through the middle of the house, so that will still be regulating the temperature to some degree. Cool in summer, warm in winter.

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Dave Liquorice

Not surprised three 2" triangles of thin material and a couple of yards of string don't keep you warm. I doubt GF's sister wears a corset and bloomers. B-)

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Dave Liquorice

Even after explaining at length what the thermostats and timer did, my previous tenants controlled the heating in the house by turning the boiler on and off at the power and opening and closing the windows.

JGH

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jgharston

I had a similar thing at my parents holiday apartment. Built in 1970 and they own the middle floor. The neighbour above had moved and the property was empty, the neighbour below had moved to a care home and the property was empty. So no neighbour supplemented my parents heating.

Concrete ceiling and floors. It was mid winter and no-one had visited the place for 6 months.

It took 24 hours to heat up the walls and the floor.

What sort of payback time are you hoping for for this insulation?

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ARWadsworth

times

Donno, the final bill for the works will be about 80k, then there is all the decoration, carpets, new kitchen, batheroom and probably now a new flat roof(*). I don't have a break down of the insulation costs from all the other work like new flooors walls doors etc etc...

TBH I'm not overly interested in "pay back", I'd like to see a noticeable drop in oil consumption but taht isn't the prime reason for the works. The place just needed gutting and doing to reasonable modern standards of insulation, it was last refurbished in 1975, so insulation didn't exist. Just block walls inside the stone walls at ground floor, plaster board on timber over that or direct to the walls at first floor. Howling gale in the void from flues and just the open top into the loft space...

(*) I knew it was getting towards the end of it's life at 15 years or so. Was sort of hoping to get another year from it but having just been up it has deteriated since last year... B-(

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Dave Liquorice

I remember the yearly switch-on when my Dad leapt into action. The solid fu= el parkray fire had to be stoked and the central heating pump "primed", whi= ch seem to involve hitting it with the same metal bar that was used to "per= suade" the car starter motor into action. Those were the days ... Simon.

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sm_jamieson

Did your Mum have to fetch the coal and clean out the fire?

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ARWadsworth

What a treat for the neighbours. ;0

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

Sittting in the south facing back room of our house the temperature is just going past 23.1C. So who needs CH? OTOH front room is 17.0C which is why we are planning to open out the back of the house to become our main living area.

Cheers

Dave R

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David WE Roberts

It's -4C here at the moment, and doesn't feel much better than that indoors - I'm tempted to go and stick my head in the fridge to warm up a bit :-)

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Jules Richardson

Looks like I first used the heating on 19th Sep for nearly 2 hours. Not entirely sure why - doesn't seem to have been particularly cold. However, so far it's not been used that much this winter, and I haven't yet set the system into winter mode where it would come on automatically, so all heating so far is as a result of manaully switching it on.

Date heating on call for heat hot water burner on Energy Cost (HH:MM:SS) (HH:MM:SS) (HH:MM:SS) (HH:MM:SS) (kWh) (£.p)

19 Sep 1:54:02 1:54:04 0:00:00 0:47:46 14.41 1.21 20 Sep 0:23:39 0:23:39 0:29:59 0:31:19 9.45 0.80 21 Sep 0:03:03 0:03:04 0:13:18 0:09:11 2.77 0.23 22 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:19:44 0:11:14 3.39 0.29 23 Sep 0:44:08 0:44:08 0:29:59 0:34:37 10.44 0.88 24 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 25 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:40:31 0:21:24 6.45 0.54 26 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 27 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 28 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:29:21 0:13:45 4.15 0.35 29 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:16:08 0:08:31 2.57 0.22 30 Sep 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 1 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:26:30 0:12:18 3.71 0.31 2 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:22:50 0:09:52 2.98 0.25 3 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:28:35 0:11:08 3.36 0.28 4 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:04 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 5 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:30:00 0:13:07 3.96 0.33 6 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:20:04 0:10:49 3.26 0.27 7 Oct 2:25:18 1:27:21 0:10:47 0:44:22 13.38 1.13 8 Oct 1:09:07 1:05:46 0:35:13 0:55:40 16.79 1.41 9 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:29:02 0:14:44 4.44 0.37 10 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:22:42 0:09:55 2.99 0.25 11 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 12 Oct 0:00:48 0:00:47 0:00:00 0:00:10 0.05 0.00 13 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 14 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:26:29 0:13:18 4.01 0.34 15 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 16 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:23:32 0:13:06 3.95 0.33 17 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 18 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 19 Oct 2:50:50 2:50:51 0:00:00 1:10:27 21.25 1.79 20 Oct 6:19:29 6:10:56 0:29:59 2:40:28 48.40 4.08 21 Oct 2:50:29 1:58:50 0:00:01 0:52:41 15.89 1.34 22 Oct 4:47:33 4:41:29 0:21:21 1:51:29 33.63 2.83 23 Oct 3:01:32 0:46:52 0:24:04 0:36:40 11.06 0.93 24 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:16:38 0:09:01 2.72 0.23 25 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:17:44 0:09:21 2.82 0.24 26 Oct 5:39:46 3:53:55 0:00:00 1:28:29 26.69 2.25 27 Oct 1:53:48 1:06:08 0:29:59 0:46:06 13.91 1.17 28 Oct 1:22:50 0:48:53 0:29:31 0:28:26 8.58 0.72 29 Oct 1:27:28 1:27:28 0:29:59 0:48:50 14.73 1.24 30 Oct 0:35:22 0:23:09 0:00:00 0:07:00 2.11 0.18 31 Oct 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 1 Nov 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 2 Nov 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0.00 0.00 3 Nov 0:15:50 0:15:50 0:00:03 0:19:52 5.99 0.50
Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

Interesting :) I guess that is taken from your BMS?

Reply to
gremlin_95

Yes.

Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

Well I was impressed (no idea what a BMS is...)

David

Reply to
Lobster

Building Management System - more commonly called Home Automation in this context, and BMS for a commercial product installed in commericial premises.

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Andrew Gabriel

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