Spotted by my wife:
"People give off heat equivilant of a one bar electic fire. So if you have a lot of people round at Xmas - turn down the thermostat on the central heating."
Presumably thermostats don't register heat given off by people!
At least my wife spotted the strange advice.
John
I thought it was about 150W per person, not 1000W - but I suppose it depends on what you are doing!
Or who. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The point is that the heating required for a small family will be too much for an extended family gathering. But let it be until dinner is served.
I heard it is about a KW/hr. It will vary with exertion as well as food intake. It might be better to try for a warm welcome. Keep an eye on granny and watch out for restive kids.
yeah, all that chucking of the car keys in the fruit bowl generates a lot of heat ;-)
| Spotted by my wife: | | "People give off heat equivilant of a one bar electic fire. So if you have a | lot of people round at Xmas - turn down the thermostat on the central | heating."
The real figure is about 100W resting and 200W exercising.
My point is that the thermostat will recognise this additional contribution and turn the heat down all on its own. Some people just don't understand the function of a thermostat and the advice added to the confusion. Surely they are best left alone (or within + or- a couple of degrees)
It may be more if she invites a load of old cows round.
If the thermostat (or TRV) is in the same room then it should, but it
*feels* warmer when there are many people present in a room and thermostats don't do subjective :)Lee
Could you write a FAQ about TRV's for my work ?
I get in the morning and all the TRV's are full open as its too cold, come midday its too hot, so all the TRV's get set to zero and the windows fly open, come 5pm....
You get the picture!
Is that for an average build person? how about a 20stone'er. :-P
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
That makes more sense - otherwise a room with 3 people and no heating would get as hot as a similar room with 1 person and a 2kW heater on full. In my experience it doesn't!
| Dave Fawthrop wrote: | > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:22:44 GMT, "john" | > wrote: | >
| >> Spotted by my wife: | >>
| >> "People give off heat equivilant of a one bar electic fire. So if | >> you have a lot of people round at Xmas - turn down the thermostat on | >> the central heating." | >
| > The real figure is about 100W resting and 200W exercising. | | Is that for an average build person? | how about a 20stone'er. :-P
I said *about*
To experience any sort of heat in a room with people, the room would have to be almost sardine type scenario. Typical scenario is a pub on new years eve, the landlord does'nt need the heating on. ;-)
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
I was at a gig like that a couple of weeks ago...
Lee
Isn't the point - discussed here at length a few weeks ago - that women don't understand thermostats . Certainly SWMBO treats ours as rotary 'on/off' switches (no, on second thoughts, make that 'on' switches).
Given the source of the article, it was probably written by a woman - and read by them too, so they will never learn The Truth...
David
Unfortunately our office is almost entirely male and not one of them seems to understand the concept of a thermostat.
Then again, exceptions prove rules (or so I was told in O level chemistry)
Same problem here. I helped it a bit by "recalibrating" the TRV head so she
*thinks* it is flat out. :-)
Get a programmable stat that adjusts the temperature to what you want at any time in the day. Then set the TRVs to give the maximum temperature in any one room. Where the stat is mounted - usually living room - the TRVs need to be removed. Once set TRVs shouldn't need fiddling with.
Yes, mine will turn a thermostat up "to heat the room quicker" then when it gets too hot will open a window. It never seems to occur to her to turn it down when the room is too hot!
| >>| Spotted by my wife: | >>| | >>| "People give off heat equivilant of a one bar electic fire. So if you | >>have a | >>| lot of people round at Xmas - turn down the thermostat on the central | >>| heating." | >>
| >>The real figure is about 100W resting and 200W exercising. | | > My point is that the thermostat will recognise this additional contribution | > and turn the heat down all on its own. | > Some people just don't understand the function of a thermostat and the | > advice added to the confusion. Surely they are best left alone (or within + | > or- a couple of degrees) | | Isn't the point - discussed here at length a few weeks ago - that women | don't understand thermostats . Certainly SWMBO | treats ours as rotary 'on/off' switches (no, on second thoughts, make | that 'on' switches). | | Given the source of the article, it was probably written by a woman - | and read by them too, so they will never learn The Truth...
After complaining bitterly at June times, I thing she has got the hang of thermostats :-)
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