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Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
The house I live in has underfloor heating downstairs so it needs to be on permanently. You can't have it on timer like you do with standard central heating. Upstairs I have radiators which I have turned down low on the rooms I don't use, plus the hot water is only circulated to them twice a day, and I only have the water for general use heated twice a day too, so I need to have my bath/shower early morning or between 5 and 7. I have the thermostat for the heating set at 12 C at the moment so the heating never comes on. When it starts getting a bit colder I'll increase this to 19C but I'll delay doing this as long as possible. In previous years the thermostat has been set at 21C, sometimes higher when Cal started getting cold. I don't feel it so much though, and actually can't stand it too hot. The insulation in this house is brilliant which helps. Still, because it's a big house I'll be surprised if my leccy bill for the year comes to less than £3k.
Really? We don't have underfloor heating ourselves (we've considered it), however my mum does and hers isn't on permanently.
While it does take a while to warm up and can vary drastically depending on the system, hers usually takes between two and three hours to get up to temp.
In an ideal world, you're meant to drop it down to a lower temp and then boost when required, but I set hers up to start around 4am, and it'll be ready by before 7.
She leaves it on until about 9am-10am, and it comes back on about 4pm for a couple of hours. The residual heat usually lasts for a good few hours.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Must be a different type to mine Phil. I'm only going by what my neighbour (who actually built the house) told me. He has the same system in his house and believe me, if there was a way he could save money on his heating, he would.
I'm with Scottish Power - fixed until Dec 2023. I binned off Bulb j about Sept last year just before they went bust. I'm on Scottish Power's green plan. At the moment the electricity unit rate is 25.421p and 26p per day standing charge. I'm dreading January 2024!
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Very wise Anj. At least you're OK forthe next 15 months. Things may have calmed down a bit by then.
Gwladysover
Player Valuation: £35m
I’m with Octopus fixed until August 2023 : Electric,17.89p per unit, the standing charge is 22.87p per day, Gas 3.11p per unit standing charge is 25.32per day so not too bad at least until next year. We also get the Winter Fuel Payment, one advantage of getting old. lol
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
On another point, the weather at one point by ours was brilliant, real sunshine and blue skies. Driving back on the road to the village a fox ran across the road, entered a field on the opposite side and continued running at a speed that I had slowed down to to see it. Anyway he ended up about 50 ft away from a friends smallholding with a myriad of chickens. Checking later he’d not got into them…sometimes nature is wonderful…..
I have chickens right beside me and their owner keeps 2 Jack Russells to deter any foxes. No chance of them taking a fox on but their yapping would wake the dead at the mere sight of a Basil near them.
Just to make you jealous we have "tin rooves" here and the sound of rain is so soothing it makes you drop off in minutes .Well we did on the last house ! I have just realised this is a tiled roof !!!.
Nice Juliet balcony there fred . It is an ornamental cherry and as said it doesn't fruit edible cherries.
A very cherry ? I must google them.
We have underfloor heating and it took a day to get up to temp after the guy fixed the outside sensor ( the heating pump works on the difference between inside and out) it is water pipes running through the concrete so a bit like a storage heater in that is is slow to resond to changes . Our eleccy bill is around 400€ per month now from 100€ before ,no gas out in the sticks .