Away over Winter

[slid_away]

Hi All
I'm away for a week over winter and looked up advice on the net to see what I should be doing to avoid any burst pipes.
I'm going to leave the heating on around 13-15 degrees but a lot of sites have said to leave your loft hatch open too.
I think It will be just as cold in there now (while we are here) as it will be if we are not here, so I can't see the reasoning in it. It's not as if I have heating in my loft when I'm here anyway?
Do I really need to do this??
Cheeers

[buildersmate]

The (so called) logic for leaving the loft hatch open is to avoid the potential for the cold water tank freezing. The issue is that with houses having much more insulation in the joists, the cold water tank's temperature is closer to the ambient temperature outside than a few degrees above it.
However, you might not even have a cold water tank in the loft - these days many modern houses don't.
I wouldn't waste heat up to the sky unless you both both the tank AND you leave in an area where the day time temperature regularly keeps below freezing by day - which probably anywhere means north of Newcastle..

[slid_away]

Thanks for that Buildersmate. My coldwater tank is in the loft but heavily lagged. Just thought the loft would remain the same temp whether I was away or not so didn't see the point.

[hallj1]

See my question 'ceiling collapse'.I had the CH on with an empty property but still had a disaster.Perhaps draining all water down would work better,then the tank would be empty and could turn CH off.