Youāll have to let us in on your secret on how you are achieving that. Weāre all expecting to be paying twice as much as last year.
I have no secret at all; I think getting the service on the pump has helped as he fidgeted with some of the settings on the water heater in tbe hotpress.
As well as that, I started turning down the stats slightly (from 21 to 20) in the living areas at night time during winter so as not to have the pump trying to heat rooms with nobody in them at night. Sometimes the fan used to be spinning outside at 1 in the morning, which is not what I wanted.
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Stats at 21?! La di fuckin da!
Only you can answer that. Unless there was a witness of course.
21Ā° ?
Iāve mine running at 14Ā° all summer
Not to be pedantic, but traditional slates, such as Blue Bangor slate, are an order of magnitude more expensive than fibre cement slates (which fade over time and look shite). Tiles are a different product entirely.
Tesla Solar Roof is another option.
Why not turn them down to 20, full stop? And bedrooms down to 19 or 18 even?
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Ditto. Iāve me room stats off (ie. on frost protection mode) since April. Itāll be the middle of September before I turn them back on. Thatāll be 5+ months without central heating, which is good going I reckon.
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I mean in winter time. I have them all down around 15 at the moment
That will be the plan this winter. Told the missus to get some warm hoodies if she doesnāt like it
We have a wood burnjng stove anyway if needs be
I have the stats going at 5 every summer. Relatively new build. Underfloor. Air to water. Well insulated. No need whatsoever to have them any higher.
I donāt think it makes much difference what you have it at once it is lower than the room temperature and there is no call to the pump to heat the water in the underfloor pipes.
I was recommended not to turn off the underfloor manifold alright.
I see Electric Ireland have a plan on smart meter that gives you free electricity from 0800 to 2300 on Saturday or Sunday.
A savvy EV driver could literally be driving for free. If you take an EV battery of say 65kwh * 80% assuming you avoid using the top and bottom 10% * an average rate of 25c per kWh youād be looking at getting ā¬13 of free electricity for your car every Saturday.
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A colleague of mine does this. She has an Opel EV (which I donāt think has an amazing range) and charges it every Saturday at home (for freeā¦well, it hikes up her weekday rateā¦) and does a hape of washing etc.
The weekly charge is plenty for the amount of driving she does.
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Yes, very important to leave the water flowing through it and never to turn it off.
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How do you manage ventilation? open windows during the day etc?
Is it much of a job to get heating rezoned?
Iāve a couple of rooms that are now in the wrong zone, so Iām losing the benefit of having them zoned at all.
Youād be as wellā¦
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Thatās pretty much it tbh, Iāve toyed with the idea of retrofitting the ventilation system but do I really want to spend 6k on something I wonāt see much benefit of. Carbon monoxide alarms were installed throughout the house during the build. Have you MHRV and would you recommend if so ?
My heat pump is only running to heat water