Ours comes on around 5am until 9am, then again for an hour or so early aternoon then is on from pm til pm. If it's a particularly cold night as it has been the past couple of nights - snow has made it to the mountains outside then we leave it on all night. Our heating is run off our oil tank so we just buy our heating oil as and when we need it. In answer to Don36ymo. If we are in it is on!
Usually 6am-8am and when we rtn 4pm - midnight Cleaning What does your cleaner do in 2 hours? Of course, it's a different story if you have a large photovoltaic solar array or your utility company uses renewable energy.
Cause: Those big pieces of glass get so darn cold. They must be the reason your house is so drafty. Effect: You could spend a lot of money to only take care of part of the problem. Windows must be installed properly to avoid drafts, gaps and leaks.
Moreover, more heat is typically lost through poorly insulated walls and ceilings than through windows. Effect: Your energy bills will still be higher than necessary if you don't start with cheaper, smaller upgrades to improve the energy efficiency of your home , such as caulking around windows and doors and adding insulation. Cause: You want the sleekest, most energy-efficient furnace available because it will be the most cost effective as well.
Effect: You may end up replacing an oversized furnace with another albeit more efficient oversized furnace. The U. Department of Energy reports that most U. Again, insulate and weatherize to maximize efficiency, then get the smallest system that will comfortably meet your heating needs. Also make sure you hire an HVAC professional to install it.
Cause: Incandescent bulbs give off more heat than light, so they must be warming up the house. In fact, one German entrepreneur is marketing incandescent bulbs as "heat balls" to skirt EU laws against the old-style bulbs. Search forums. Members Current visitors. Log in. Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. How many hours a day do you have your heating and water on for? Thread starter zAndy1 Start date Dec 7, Just wondering how many hours a day people tend to have their hot water and heating on for on average? Mainly interested in examples where the house is empty during the day say between 8. I'm wondering if we have ours on too long and might try reducing the hours we have ours on for to see if I notice any difference really.
I think our heating comes on at 7am and goes off at 8. I know it's going to depend what time you leave home for work and what time you get home etc but mainly interested in average hours people have the boiler set to come on and go off really. The truth is that it requires more energy to keep the house at its normal temperature than to heat it back to that temperature after dialing the thermostat down. Heat naturally moves to places where it's cold.
So if your heat is up, it is constantly moving from the inside of your house to the outside, even if your house is well-insulated. A home loses energy more slowly once the temperature inside drops below normal levels. The longer the house remains cold, the more energy it saves compared to the energy lost that comes when the heater is humming along at its normal temperature [sources: Department of Energy , Sierra Club ]. The same principle holds for home cooling purposes.
The higher the air temperature rises above typical levels inside the house, the slower it loses energy. The slower it loses energy, the easier it is to re-cool the home when you get out of bed or return at night [source: Department of Energy ]. That doesn't mean you should shut the furnace or air conditioning unit off entirely before you leave your house, especially if you're going to be gone for a while. When a house gets too cold, it puts the pipes at danger of freezing.
When it gets too hot, condensed air can do a number on wood floors, cabinets and other surfaces [source: Martin ]. If you're looking for a sweet spot, keep the thermostat at about 68 degrees F 20 degrees C when you're home and drop it down to about 55 degrees 13 degrees C before you go out or go to bed. The same goes for cooling costs: Keep the house warmer than normal when you're not home and try to leave the thermostat at around 78 degrees F 26 degrees C otherwise [sources: Department of Energy , Sierra Club ].
According to the U. Department of Energy, a family that sets back its thermostat by about 10 to 15 degrees for eight hours a day while sleeping or out of the house can save 5 to 15 percent a year on home heating costs. Working the thermostat is an important first step to maximizing energy efficiency, but there are also a number of other things you can do to cut down on home heating and cooling costs without sacrificing too much comfort.
First, make changing temperatures easier by investing in a programmable thermostat. This technology allows users to schedule heating levels to automatically rise when they wake up or come home at the end of the day. Most of the devices also let users to store and repeat daily settings and can be changed manually when necessary [source: Department of Energy ]. Programmable thermostats are less helpful — and may actually prove more costly — for people who rely on heat pumps to warm their homes.
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