Home heating - thermostat or switch?

spida

We were always taught at school about thermostats, how turning them up doesn't make you hotter faster because of the way they work.

What I never realised until having my own home was that I wouldn't be using a thermostat anyway.

I can't be sure exactly, but I think if I were to have my heating on all the time and use the thermostat to regulate temperature, I'd be spending a fortune on heating. Instead, when it's cold I give the heat a blast to warm the place up for a few minutes/half an hour, and wear a jumper.

My place is insulated, but is old too, so might be a C rating. But surely that is common. So my question is, does anyone not in an A Rated house actually USE The thermostat as the sole means of controlling the heat on/off?

Wearb

A lot of people do just that

They have the thermostat set for different temperatures during different times of the day and the A different regime at weekends.

Some would have eg 22.00hrs until 06.00 at 14C (effectively that would be off except in extreme weather). The other times would be different for different zones (depending on if they were occupied during the day or only evenings).

windowcills

Stat all the way, dont let your rooms get too cold, turning on heating for an hour will warm the air, but not the walls, furniture, mattresses, back of wardrobes ,and it will heat some rooms more then others causing damp and mould, and health issues

a stat in the hall with feather the boiler on and off (like cruse control maintaing your speed) this allows every part of your home to get heated by the rads and by the heat moving from one room to the next through walls and open doors

If you have a condensing boiler set it to the lowest setting

if you dont have heat you have nothing