my gas boiler usage

hago123

Hi,
I am living (1 person) in an apartment, where the heating and cooking is powered by natural gas.
Until Feb 2019, I felt that my bills are quite high and to reduce that,
i started turning off the boiler manually during night and when I leave to work.
So basically i end up using it for 2 hrs a day. And now, I find that I am not consuming more gas as expected.

My questions are:
1) Is it ok to turn the boiler on and off manually every day? Will it cause any damage to the property or the boiler?
2) Also, in the past when I left it ON, i see that it runs every few hrs to keep the water warm and in turn consume more gas. Am I right?

Please clarify.

Regards
Hago

Force Carrier

Try the plumbing forum. Also upload a picture of your boiler.

homer911

1, Yes, No
2. Yes

I'd say most people would run their heating on a timer, or a manual 1 hour boost when needed

Atlantic Dawn

Are they meter readings or estimates on the bill?

dudara

Force Carrier wrote: »

Try the plumbing forum. Also upload a picture of your boiler.

Please don't tell people to post in another forum. We often end up with duplicate threads as a result. Instead please use the Report Post function to alert a moderator that the thread should be moved.

Moved to the Plumbing & Heating forum

dudara

hago123

Force Carrier wrote: »

Try the plumbing forum. Also upload a picture of your boiler.

Ok I will.
my boiler is Immer gas boiler. Will upload a picture tonight.

hago123

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Are they meter readings or estimates on the bill?

Both. I am with Flogas. They do estimates and I submit meter readings once in a while.

hago123

So my boiler looks like this: