central heating

[claire28]

is it cheeper to leave your central heating on all day

[sarah_louise]

Of course not.

[Toureman]

Of course not !

[claire28]

What i mean is....if you have it on for longer at a lower temp. Is it cheeper than having it on high for a shorter time.

[gucciman]

old style or conventional boilers and combi-boilers use most energy/gas when heating the radiators up from cold and then using less energy to maintain the temperature.
if you have a room stat fitted and your home is well insulated and you keep your doors and windows shut then it could be cheaper to leave the heating on all day at a lower temperature.
we do advise that with an old style system with a hot water tanks it is cheaper to leave the water on all the time rather than heating up from cold.

[avoss]

i have a new combi boiler and leave it on all day but at a reasonable temp,turning the room stat up or down whenever i like. is this cost effective?

[gucciman]

i would have thought so. i have seen some of the digital wireless programmers on the new worcester boilers and there pre-set programs drop the temperature down at night to a comfortable sleeping level rather than turning it off altogether.

[avoss]

welli have to turn it down manually for overnight. usually down to 15 degrees or so. roughly the same when i go out. saying all this, ive had my gas bill for a week and `havent got round` to opening it yet!!

[avoss]

hi claire28, just opened the red one! quarterly gas bill �150! thats �12.50 per week! same with the leccy. (2 bed old/high ceilings terraced) i think thats ok?