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Post by mrpon on Dec 15, 2022 16:14:51 GMT
What's your minimum set as on the thermostat? I thought most people have it around 14 degs for the cutoff. I have it set to 18 but the most I've seen it hit is 14. I think you mean the lowest you've seen it hit is 14, which I think is the norm for the minimum setting. |
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Post by dmukgr on Dec 15, 2022 16:52:06 GMT
I have it set to 18 but the most I've seen it hit is 14. I think you mean the lowest you've seen it hit is 14, which I think is the norm for the minimum setting. Nope, thermometer says it is usually about 10 when the heating switches on and 14 when it switches off. |
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Post by mrpon on Dec 15, 2022 16:55:14 GMT
Bloody hell, that's too cold. You're at risk of catching hyperthermia! You should set the minimum to 14 then at least it's got a fighting chance of getting to 18!!
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Post by dmukgr on Dec 15, 2022 17:10:23 GMT
I don't have an option of a minimum - I can switch it on or off (on a timer) and the thermostat lets you set a max.
It seems OK though to be honest.
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Post by elstoof on Dec 15, 2022 17:32:15 GMT
Depends where your thermostat is though right, if there’s no radiator in the same room it’ll be hotter than the displayed temperature in every other room
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Post by dmukgr on Dec 15, 2022 17:46:04 GMT
True enough.
It’s in the kitchen with one radiator but it’s true that the study room is warmer.
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Post by quadfather on Dec 16, 2022 15:34:49 GMT
I've found a way round the cold. I've rearranged meetings where I have to openly speak to people for when I'm in the office for 2 days a week. Rest of the time, I can just plod away on the laptop.
WHICH MEANS
I can do that in the pub. By the fire. Where I am right now!
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Post by henroben on Dec 16, 2022 15:52:59 GMT
I've found a way round the cold. I've rearranged meetings where I have to openly speak to people for when I'm in the office for 2 days a week. Rest of the time, I can just plod away on the laptop. WHICH MEANS I can do that in the pub. By the fire. Where I am right now! Depending on the price of beer that might actually work out more expensive! |
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Post by quadfather on Dec 16, 2022 16:15:59 GMT
Still cheaper to be in the pub than using electric heating! £3.50 a pint, couple of pints over a couple of hours. 7 quid. so about 3.50 an hour I guess.
But, it's a pub and beer!
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Post by Dougs on Dec 16, 2022 18:46:58 GMT
I can imagine coffee shops etc also being stacked with people buying one coffee every few hours.
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Post by elstoof on Dec 16, 2022 18:57:45 GMT
Old ladies using their bus pass to sit on board for 8 hours a day to keep warm, which Rees Mogg finds uplifting
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Post by Dougs on Dec 16, 2022 18:59:28 GMT
Ah yes, forgot about that. It's a pretty damning indictment that I am not particularly unhappy that my mum is in hospital at the moment (now I know she's fine). She's warm, being fed 3 times a day and being well looked after.
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Post by elstoof on Dec 16, 2022 19:21:38 GMT
Never imagined this scenario at all when growing up.
First day with the new meter yesterday, final figures came in at £35. Less than 4 quid was leccy, at least I got to prove to my wife that switching the lights off when I’m still sat in the room was a drop in the ocean
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2022 19:25:31 GMT
Are you sure the meter is right? That works out at over a grand a month.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 16, 2022 19:27:16 GMT
Holy fucking Christ. I suspect mine wouldn't be dissimilar if the stat was on 22/23 as my wife wants. It would basically be running all the time.
I've been monitoring the daily usage on the boiler app, and by dropping the temperature to 16 when it's just me in the house, and then again at 8pm (as opposed to 10pm) seems to be saving 40%. That's definitely worth it imo. Amounts to nearly a fiver a day.
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Post by elstoof on Dec 16, 2022 19:28:14 GMT
Hopefully once this cold spell passes we’ll not be burning as much gas
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Post by elstoof on Dec 16, 2022 19:30:16 GMT
We’re not dropping the thermostat at night, set to 18.5 all day now. Don’t really want the kids dying of strep A. We’ve burned a tenner by the time we get up in the morning
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2022 19:35:45 GMT
I don't think that's how strep works.
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Post by sport✅ on Dec 16, 2022 19:37:55 GMT
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Post by askew on Dec 16, 2022 19:40:10 GMT
That eedjit in the middle is doing sauna all wrong!
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Post by elstoof on Dec 16, 2022 19:41:55 GMT
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Post by technoish on Dec 21, 2022 11:44:55 GMT
Sheeeeeeesht.
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Post by knighty on Dec 21, 2022 12:05:46 GMT
I suspect a lot of people will be surprised. I’m on a meter so monitoring it constantly and despite being an absolute tight arse even when it was freezing I was still using a tenner A day to take the edge off and get it up to 16 ish degrees.
People will start moaning there direct debits we’re too low over summer!
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Post by mikeck on Dec 21, 2022 12:55:12 GMT
My smart gas meter is still not giving readings to Octopus (was set up by British Gas but we were already with Octopus and switched the day we moved in, fuckers taking their time allowing it to become smart for another company) so I'm having to check manually as often as possible. I'm scared to check after having the heating on over the past couple of weeks...
Electricity for the past month was £127 which I don't think is too bad considering I work from home.
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Post by quadfather on Dec 21, 2022 13:44:15 GMT
Just paid my 200 quid bill for this month, so I put the latest meter reading in. Just in credit at 63 quid, which is good considering I've had to blast the electric heating during that cold snap. It's going down in general but not as fast as I thought it would, thank fuck.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 21, 2022 20:07:41 GMT
Revelling in whacking the thermostat up to 22 and having the fire on!
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Post by richardiox on Dec 21, 2022 20:16:26 GMT
Meanwhile I haven't had the temp in our house above 17.5 since the heating season started. Currently at 14.5 and making do. Kind of used to it now.
Treated ourselves to like 4 hours worth of radiators every day last week when it was freezing and were averaging £20/day... Today will come in at about £12. £250 month Cashback for being cold. Kerching
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Post by Dougs on Dec 21, 2022 21:07:25 GMT
It's miserable innit. So nice being warm, I'm sat in a t-shirt, hands and feet aren't vaguely numb. And you've got to remember, for the most part, we are the lucky ones who can mostly afford it.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 28, 2022 9:35:41 GMT
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Post by elstoof on Dec 28, 2022 11:25:14 GMT
When we got the power back on our central heating pump seems to have reset from 3 bars of power to 1. I left it there as the rads seemed to heat up ok, albeit more slowly - but apparently using like half the gas we were paying for previously according to the smart meter?
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