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Have Gas Heating - What Way to Keep the House Warm?

  • 08-03-2011 10:34pm
    #1
    Kintarō Hattori
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    Hey Folks,

    After having rented with the good lady for 6 years we've finally bought our own place. Every apartment we rented used electric heating so getting used to gas in a fairly energy efficient house is taking some getting used to.

    If you have gas, how do you heat your home? The guy who serviced our boiler told me that a lot of folk leave the heating on low all the time. Is this not wasteful and expensive?

    In our setup to heat the rads upstairs the thermostat downstairs has to be on and consequently heating the kitchen, hallway, living room and downstairs toilet when we're not there. The installer mentioned that the valves on modern radiators aren't designed to be turned on and off reguarly and so wear out quite quickly.

    So for me, having to have the heat on at say 15-20 degrees downstairs in order to heat upstairs seems really wasteful. Is this the norm?


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  • #2
    yoshytoshy
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    Have a look at this thread for peoples ideas ,Link

    If your house is well insulated ,it should heat up quickly enough. There shouldn't be much need to pre-heat the house when your not there.

    Some people have seperate control of upstairs and downstairs ,via a three channel clock. But the norm is that the boiler comes on via standard timer and then the upstairs or downstairs thermostats kick in.
    Most heating systems are designed with large double radiators downstairs and small single radiators upstairs ,this is to allow for heat to travel up through the house.


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