I suspect you have solid walls……but if cavity then having insulation pumped in will make a massive difference…if done properly. Don’t know if you can get a grant for this?
Um, what's a smart/learning control system?
control system that ‘learns’ your usage pattern, how the house behaves in terms of heat retention (or not!) and adjusts itself accordingly, as well as reading outside temperature movements and receiving weather forecasts via interwebs and factoring those in. They really do work - no point in heating the house when the forecast is outside temperatures will increase and do the job for you! Many also monitor House occupation via mobile phone movement and adjust themselves automatically when you leave the house and when you are on the way home.
You can ask your provider to organise an independent check if you think it's over reading.
Ours is set to 18 degrees from 0800 to 1200 and 1600 to 2100. When I come in from walking my pup in the evening, I generally knock it down to 17; for some reason, the house seems to be warmer in the evenings.
We have a Hive and I tend to turn our heating down from the app if we're both out. Not heard of a smart system that tracks us via phone signal though.
Great idea. I read the meters every Saturday and we seem to be using an average of about five units of gas per day (34-ish per week)You can ask your provider to organise an independent check if you think it's over reading.
Electricity meters: independent testing of accuracy
What you can expect if you request a meter test.www.gov.uk
It might be more efficient to have the heating on all day rather than the four hour gap. Definetely worth experimenting.
, that is incredibly efficient running alongside the smart control system.
Cylinder stat, strapped to cylinder.
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It‘s all brick, 1903 built.
Prohibitively expensive. The sheer size of the place for one thing and the outside is rendered.
Heating is gas and no EV. As for solar panels, and I’m only guessing here, but I don’t think the orientation of the house is any good for siting of them, we’re more or less north/south.
I’ve changed the Hive for the heating to be on 17 degrees from 0800 to 2130, see if that makes a difference.It might be more efficient to have the heating on all day rather than the four hour gap. Definetely worth experimenting.
our heating is not set to come on at all in the morning, today I knocked it on manually to 17c when we were ready to settle down around lunchtime for the day. Below is what that looks like in terms of energy usage I.e. boiler worked flat out to get the house to 17c and then barely ticking over to maintain it.. …hence my comment re possibly more efficient to leave the heating on all,day (if you must!). That is with a five year old Valliant boiler, the ‘BMW’ of boilers
the green bar is how hard the boiler is working, the solid line the required inside temperature and the dotted wiggly line is actual indoor temperature
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Might seem like a silly question but are you on a fixed tariff? as the price of gas and electricity have risen tremendously the last few months which could be why they have increased your direct debit
I was going down the solid wall insulation route as I have done a fair bit, not a clue about the cost though as I was just the monkey drilling a million holes, its very effective though
Not at all. We’re on a fixed tariff until September 2024, an apparent special rate for previous customers of GNE (who went bust early last year). Back in October we were £187 in debit and now we’re £261 in debit. I guess they want to recover their money now and wait til we’re in credit in the summer before they review it again.
