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Am I using much heating compared to others?

  • 25-02-2020 8:53pm
    #1
    Heres Johnny
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    Got a climote installed recently and I can see history on my smartphone...

    Last 2 weeks history is

    17 hours living room ( this means downstairs or zone 1)

    15 hours bedroom (upstairs, zone 2)

    7 hours water

    2 of us living here, both work daytime office hours

    Just wondering are we using more or less than the average couple?

    No particular reason, I know there's no accurate answer, apart from maybe wondering is my house energy efficient (it's a b3 on the ber register)


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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,189 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    We've had heating on 40 to 45 hours a week for the last few weeks.

    There is no way to compare to other people imo. Too many variables. There is almost always someone in my house day and night. I'd rather have it warm enough to walk around in t-shirt rather than have to wear a sweater. Someone else might have an empty house for 8 or 10 hours a day. They might prefer to wear more clothes & use less heating


  • #3
    John.G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭John.G


    Heres Johnny wrote: »
    Got a climote installed recently and I can see history on my smartphone...

    Last 2 weeks history is

    17 hours living room ( this means downstairs or zone 1)

    15 hours bedroom (upstairs, zone 2)

    7 hours water

    2 of us living here, both work daytime office hours

    Just wondering are we using more or less than the average couple?

    No particular reason, I know there's no accurate answer, apart from maybe wondering is my house energy efficient (it's a b3 on the ber register)

    You are averaging (heating) only 16 hrs/week or 2.3 hrs/day which seems extraordinarily low IMO, to get a accurate figureof your energy consumption is quite easy if gas fired, just read the meter, oil is far more difficult to measure but my 1000 litre tank is exactly 1 litre/mm so quite easy to calculate, certainly over a one week period.
    I have my heating enabled 15 hrs/day, more at weekends, for 7/8 months of the year and consume ~ 15,000 kwh/year, I average ~ 83 kwh/day oil consumption during this cold month or 5.5 kwh/hr to keep my house at 21/22C. This figure also includes hot water.


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