General Chat

Never been known to still have the central heating on in June

We operate I t by having it on all the time but putting the thermostat down at night so it only kicks in when the temperature drops

Usually we switch it off in May by turning off the the pilot light and closing down the vents, it's a warm air system ,

Been a bit too chiily up to now to shut it down :-(

We never turn ours off!

If the indoors temp is the same or higher than the room stat, the boiler won't come on. That part is on a timer with a morning and evening setting.

The last day we're sure it came on was the 2nd June - the day everyone thought was colder than Christmas! It may have fired up for a few days after then.

Ours hasn't been on since the middle of May. It doesn't have a thermostat, although the individual radiators do. The boiler has a timer, but most of the time I over-ride it and operate the thing manually.

Our house also has 3' thick walls and the only insulation is in the roof. It holds the heat in the winter (it comes up through the floor from the downstairs flat) and is cool in the summer.

Mine is on constant, but only 3 downstairs radiators are ever on - I turn the thermostat up and down, depending on whether I'm cold, or the washing needs drying!!

I had it on for warmth on Thursday :-(

1930's end of terrace, brick partition walls, insulated outside walls (but so long ago it's probably 'dropped'), double glazing!!

Mind you, I live on top of a hill. It can be gloriously hot here, and freezing cold in town - or vice-versa. Town is in a basin, I'm sure the wind whips up through the basin :-(

We are like DetEcTive - we never turn ours off but just rely on the thermostat working. It is only this last week that our radiators have not come on. Up until then we needed the heating to warm up the place as it has been so cold but this last week we have had some lovely weather and have been able to have the back door open all day for the last few days (in north east England).

Kath. x

It's been bl**dy cold down South - so much rain there's been flooding - and judging from the smell outside Te*co's today a bit of the worst sort of 'drainage' trouble :-(

I went to a fete today - the thunderstorm was amazing :-S

Oh - and I'm sat here in jeans, socks a shirt and a fleece.

we have blown air ventral heating in the older part of the house, from a naturak gas furnace.

We oeprate that on the thermostat in the dining room. We NEVER turn off the pilot light on the furnace .......... we did do it the first year we were in this house, but then we had to call in the gas people to turn it back on. Since then, the advice is to leave all natural gas pilot lights ON all year round.

Another 3 rooms in the house have individual electric baseboard heaters, each with a theromostat. We operate those independently of each other and from the reast of the house on an "as needed in that room" basis.

We actually turned all thermostats to their lowest level in part of April, and much of May, but the gas furnace and this room's baseboard have been turned on every day for the last 11 days :-0 The furnace has been kept on for most of the day, but I've been able to turn the heating down in this room because it faces south, and we've had sun on several days .............. with large windows, the room quickly warms up in the afternoon. It's been turned back on again on at least 6 evenings though.

This is also the latest that we've had the heating in either format working.

I had a warm air (ducted) heating system years ago. It was inefficient, I couldn't get parts for it when necessary. It was a cold house that one. But now, after having had a Baxi back boiler unit in the previous house I have a combi boiler in this one. :-)

We have mains water so no indoor water tanks,.the hot water is by a multipoint in the kitchen
The warm air heating was put in with house build and it has been updated with a bigger boiler and extended .it is very efficient and keeps the house warm.not letting the house get cold seems to be most efficient way

My combi boiler is switched on and off by a wireless thermostat in the corridor outside one of the bedrooms. The boiler also comes on when you open a hot tap.

Our combi boiler was serviced and then repaired 3 times in less than a month.

It was back in May whilst we were experiencing a couple of weeks of really warm weather.
The first 2 callouts, immediately after the service involved a leak from the boiler

The 3rd breakdown, immediately after the leak was repaired, involved the timer and thermostat
It broke in the ON position and for almost 3 really warm ( rather hot) days, we couldn't get the darned heating to turn off !

Can be a famine or a feast for these service people :)

Run your central heating pump now and then briefly in the warm spells
because you find they've seized up with silt when you need them in the winter.

Well our is serviced every year around. June . We have the heating unit and the multipoint done at the same appointment .

Hubby came home from hospital bedbound so had a hospital bed in the lounge early oct
The heating had been working ok so the house was warm for him,

Bee thing then in the second week decided to pack up,. fortunately we have gas fire in the lounge so,with a bit of tweaking the bed around we were able to have the fire on with hubby In his hospital bed well away from it

Our engineer came out ASAP and did lots of tests an identified what,seemed to be the part needed and two days later he came back and installed i

It only lasted two weeks before,it failed again. Turned out to be the motherboard that had to be replaced

The failure couldn't have happened at a worse time . Thank goodness we had the gas fire backup, so hubby was kept warm

our house is incredibly warm in winter when the blown air central heating is on. It is a common type of heating over heating, run by a natural gas fired furnace in the basement.

A lot may depend on where your vents are placed in the rooms.

It's been very cold here. Well, cold for us! Living in a sub-tropical place, we're used to being warm.

Last night, for the first time ever, we switched on the RCAC in our bedroom!


On Sunday morning at 4am I was outside (don't ask!)..... and the thermometer read 4C. :-(

why were you outside at 4 am on a Sunday morning????




I just had to ask :-D

to read the thermometer

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I suppose that is as good a reason as any



I have a temperature sensor outside in the shade, and the receiver and reader are inside the house, so I just have to walk into another room

I have just arrived at my daughter's house or should I say ...ice cave.!
She is having new windows and doors fitted and Its my day to be here for the fitters.
They are working on back and front door today and Im in the living room with the internal doors closed.....and I've turned the heating on.

Its always cold in this house and if it doesn't warm up soon I''m off to sit in the car instead.
At least its got heated seats. Brrr :-(

You used to be able to buy and install a frost protection thermostat.
It made the circuit in the event of a cold snap.
It meant you didn't have to leave your boiler on running up a bill.