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[omega3000]

Either way, turning the heating off when not required will give you lower bills than leaving it on to avoid the house cooling down.

I always thought that but we've tried both and it's actually cheaper for us to leave it on But we have started to turn the stat down a little (if we remember ) when we're out. Mind you... It's not often the house is empty for more than a couple of hours anyway

The wood burner gets lit of an evening (better do that in a minute) and that then takes the temp up to what SWMBO wants and keeps the heating off until the early hours of the morning when the temp has dropped enough for the stat to fire it up again

It seems we get more colder winters of late , maybe i should seriously think about opening up the fire place again . That wood burner giving me ideas but we live in a smokeless zone so not sure its possible to burn wood  maybe only smokeless coal 

[Lazydocker]

Either way, turning the heating off when not required will give you lower bills than leaving it on to avoid the house cooling down.

I always thought that but we've tried both and it's actually cheaper for us to leave it on But we have started to turn the stat down a little (if we remember ) when we're out. Mind you... It's not often the house is empty for more than a couple of hours anyway

The wood burner gets lit of an evening (better do that in a minute) and that then takes the temp up to what SWMBO wants and keeps the heating off until the early hours of the morning when the temp has dropped enough for the stat to fire it up again

It seems we get more colder winters of late , maybe i should seriously think about opening up the fire place again . That wood burner giving me ideas but we live in a smokeless zone so not sure its possible to burn wood  maybe only smokeless coal 

Although I don't live in a smokeless zone I tend to use smokeless coal when I want extra heat... Which reminds me, I must get some in!

[Taxi_Driver]

Either way, turning the heating off when not required will give you lower bills than leaving it on to avoid the house cooling down.

I always thought that but we've tried both and it's actually cheaper for us to leave it on But we have started to turn the stat down a little (if we remember ) when we're out. Mind you... It's not often the house is empty for more than a couple of hours anyway

The wood burner gets lit of an evening (better do that in a minute) and that then takes the temp up to what SWMBO wants and keeps the heating off until the early hours of the morning when the temp has dropped enough for the stat to fire it up again

I think it actually depends on your heating system.....

For example.....if i go around my parents house, who have a nearly new gas boiler and some of the rads are energy efficient ones and they turn the heating on.....within about 10 mins the rads are really hot (too hot to keep your hand on).

So in this case, I can see only having the boiler on when needed would be most efficient way.

In my house where the boiler is 30+ years old and roars away for at least an hour before its got the rads hot and only then when its got the water upto temp it then switches off/on due to thermostat.

In my case, its probably using more gas to let the boiler go cold and then let roar away again for another hour to get the water temp back up....   

[Vamps]

Either way, turning the heating off when not required will give you lower bills than leaving it on to avoid the house cooling down.

I always thought that but we've tried both and it's actually cheaper for us to leave it on But we have started to turn the stat down a little (if we remember ) when we're out. Mind you... It's not often the house is empty for more than a couple of hours anyway

The wood burner gets lit of an evening (better do that in a minute) and that then takes the temp up to what SWMBO wants and keeps the heating off until the early hours of the morning when the temp has dropped enough for the stat to fire it up again

I think it actually depends on your heating system.....

For example.....if i go around my parents house, who have a nearly new gas boiler and some of the rads are energy efficient ones and they turn the heating on.....within about 10 mins the rads are really hot (too hot to keep your hand on).

So in this case, I can see only having the boiler on when needed would be most efficient way.

In my house where the boiler is 30+ years old and roars away for at least an hour before its got the rads hot and only then when its got the water upto temp it then switches off/on due to thermostat.

In my case, its probably using more gas to let the boiler go cold and then let roar away again for another hour to get the water temp back up.... 

Same here, that's why  we found it better to leave it on, turning the stat down during night and day, when no one in, if we get any sun at all it soon warms up the front of the house, so that is a bonus, even in winter..

[Sir Tigger KC]

If your house catches the sun during the day it makes a world of difference.    I have a house where in the winter, when the sun is low in the sky, it goes behind a hill after about 10am and it's like a morgue if the heating's been off!!! 

[Lazydocker]

Either way, turning the heating off when not required will give you lower bills than leaving it on to avoid the house cooling down.

I always thought that but we've tried both and it's actually cheaper for us to leave it on But we have started to turn the stat down a little (if we remember ) when we're out. Mind you... It's not often the house is empty for more than a couple of hours anyway

The wood burner gets lit of an evening (better do that in a minute) and that then takes the temp up to what SWMBO wants and keeps the heating off until the early hours of the morning when the temp has dropped enough for the stat to fire it up again

I think it actually depends on your heating system.....

For example.....if i go around my parents house, who have a nearly new gas boiler and some of the rads are energy efficient ones and they turn the heating on.....within about 10 mins the rads are really hot (too hot to keep your hand on).

So in this case, I can see only having the boiler on when needed would be most efficient way.

In my house where the boiler is 30+ years old and roars away for at least an hour before its got the rads hot and only then when its got the water upto temp it then switches off/on due to thermostat.

In my case, its probably using more gas to let the boiler go cold and then let roar away again for another hour to get the water temp back up.... 

Same here, that's why  we found it better to leave it on, turning the stat down during night and day, when no one in, if we get any sun at all it soon warms up the front of the house, so that is a bonus, even in winter..

Yep, ours is an old oil burning boiler and takes ages to get the house up to temperature. That said, if we leave it on then it only runs for about 10-15 minutes (at the most) at a time and then only about 6-8 times a day instead of 2 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the evening

Plus, one of us is home most of the time so we don't like it getting too cold during the day

[aaronjb]

I have a fancy dancy wireless thermostat thing with the 'on' temperature set to 20C and the 'off' temperature set to 17C, so it never lets it drop much below about 16.5C; although that does mean the heating runs quite a lot since the house has absolutely sod all insulation..

Oh and I turn the 'off' stat up to 18C when I'm working from home, otherwise I freeze my rocks off in the north facing office.