Central Heating - on yet?

[johnnyb47]

I've call the sheep in out from the field.Ive got two sitting each side of me on the sofa watching Coronation Street keeping me warm 🤣🤣🤣

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I've call the sheep in out from the field.Ive got two sitting each side of me on the sofa watching Coronation Street keeping me warm 🤣🤣🤣

And now you are covered in grease and stink. 😁

 

[lazybloke]

Still no heating here, and currently 19.5 C in my hall, but the house will get much colder once the warm weather ends.
Just spent a few weekends upping the loft insulation to 30cm, so hopefully that will keep things comfortable , but the solid exterior walls will still leach heat out of the house.
Have identified some downstairs areas to draft-proof too.

Have been doing some research on external insulation/cladding, so that might be a future DIY project - at least a small trial section.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

How is Turkey?

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[MrGrumpy]

Still no heating here, and currently 19.5 C in my hall, but the house will get much colder once the warm weather ends.
Just spent a few weekends upping the loft insulation to 30cm, so hopefully that will keep things comfortable , but the solid exterior walls will still leach heat out of the house.
Have identified some downstairs areas to draft-proof too.

Have been doing some research on external insulation/cladding, so that might be a future DIY project - at least a small trial section.

I’m live in a fairly modern house , built mid 90s however it’s large and doesn’t hold heat in. Our loft was fully floored down the middle and up the sides by previous owners. The insulation is nowhere near enough , so I’ll be doing a bit of dismantling and throwing more in insulation down the sides .
I’ve done a bit of draught proofing my front door . Finally I may need to look at this later but we fitted new radiators in our kitchen, tall and slim . They chuck out pretty good heat and even whilst off !

Whilst I type this I’ve just noticed youngest has left the iron on all friggen night !!

 

[Mike_P]

On this morning to take the nip off; extra 55p of gas used.

 

[ianrauk]

Still not on in the sunny south east of Englandshire. Still have windows open at night.
But getting close to turning on that switch.

 

[si_c]

I’m live in a fairly modern house , built mid 90s however it’s large and doesn’t hold heat in. Our loft was fully floored down the middle and up the sides by previous owners. The insulation is nowhere near enough , so I’ll be doing a bit of dismantling and throwing more in insulation down the sides .
I’ve done a bit of draught proofing my front door . Finally I may need to look at this later but we fitted new radiators in our kitchen, tall and slim . They chuck out pretty good heat and even whilst off !

Whilst I type this I’ve just noticed youngest has left the iron on all friggen night !!

Unfortunately boarding the loft has two impacts, often the amount of insulation is reduced but also it tends to be compressed underneath the boards, which if it is the lower cost glass fibre type reduces the efficiency. There are a couple of ways to fix this, unboarding and adding the insulation back is one way, the current recommendation is at least 230mm IIRC of glass fibre roll.

The second way is to change the insulation type, PIR board has a much better insulation factor than the regular insulation (about twice as effective for a given depth) so cut and fit it between the joists and then fill any gaps with expanding foam and reboard the loft. That's not cheap though depending on the size of the loft, a 12'x6' board will set you back at least £50.

Our loft is badly insulated, a lot of the insulation was put down poorly and doesn't cover evenly and in a lot of places is heaped up in the corner, there are also board piled up in various locations as well as polystyrene boards in random spots as well. One of my jobs for next year is to lift all the insulation, put fresh insulation down the centre and then board it over properly and then to put PIR between the roof timbers as a second insulation layer. It won't be quite as effective as a mount of thick insulation above the ceiling but it will give some usable loft space which we don't at present have and improve the thermals a bit.

We have quite a few PIR boards left over from when we insulated the walls upstairs before moving in, so it's a relatively low cost option for us as we already have some of the materials.

 

[fossyant]

Unfortunately boarding the loft has two impacts, often the amount of insulation is reduced but also it tends to be compressed underneath the boards, which if it is the lower cost glass fibre type reduces the efficiency. There are a couple of ways to fix this, unboarding and adding the insulation back is one way, the current recommendation is at least 230mm IIRC of glass fibre roll.

The second way is to change the insulation type, PIR board has a much better insulation factor than the regular insulation (about twice as effective for a given depth) so cut and fit it between the joists and then fill any gaps with expanding foam and reboard the loft. That's not cheap though depending on the size of the loft, a 12'x6' board will set you back at least £50.

Our loft is badly insulated, a lot of the insulation was put down poorly and doesn't cover evenly and in a lot of places is heaped up in the corner, there are also board piled up in various locations as well as polystyrene boards in random spots as well. One of my jobs for next year is to lift all the insulation, put fresh insulation down the centre and then board it over properly and then to put PIR between the roof timbers as a second insulation layer. It won't be quite as effective as a mount of thick insulation above the ceiling but it will give some usable loft space which we don't at present have and improve the thermals a bit.

We have quite a few PIR boards left over from when we insulated the walls upstairs before moving in, so it's a relatively low cost option for us as we already have some of the materials.

We've actually found two of our bedrooms are much warmer since boarding the last half of the roof over these two rooms. Can't leave the heating on much past 6:30pm as the rooms remain really warm.

Only issue we've got is son leaves his window wide open all night so that's dragging any morning heating out. Might just switch his radiator off.

 

[tyred]

No need for heating yet. I've only got 23 blankets on my bed.

 

[Gwylan]

Still no heating here, and currently 19.5 C in my hall, but the house will get much colder once the warm weather ends.
Just spent a few weekends upping the loft insulation to 30cm, so hopefully that will keep things comfortable , but the solid exterior walls will still leach heat out of the house.
Have identified some downstairs areas to draft-proof too.

Have been doing some research on external insulation/cladding, so that might be a future DIY project - at least a small trial section.

Interesting, how will you measure the effectiveness of the cladding?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

We don't like warm bedroom so we have the thermostat on the upstairs radiator turned down very low

Only the lounge really gets warm -plus the kitchen when cooking is done

When I moved in the first thing I did was upgrade to double glazing - especially the rubbish patio door
made a huge difference - unless it is the depths of winter we only need the heating on for an hour or so - myabe twice a day

 

[GuyBoden]

My wife keeps putting the CH on for an hour or two in the evenings, it's not even cold yet, so I've turned the boiler rad temp down and shut off most of the radiators.

 

[derrick]

It won't go on until it gets cold.

 

[MrGrumpy]

We've actually found two of our bedrooms are much warmer since boarding the last half of the roof over these two rooms. Can't leave the heating on much past 6:30pm as the rooms remain really warm.

Only issue we've got is son leaves his window wide open all night so that's dragging any morning heating out. Might just switch his radiator off.

Got the same problem here! In fact I told him to camp in the garden if he likes that cool !