Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

Nice.

Further idea - massive duct from behind ASHP fans into house = air con.

profit?

It’s a Samsung that has cooling mode apparently. Not sure how effective freezing radiators and dining room floor will be in summer but it’ll be fun to give it a go.

It works surprisingly well on underfloor. Cooling the whole floor properly chills the house. Nicer than air con I’d say, in the same way underfloor heating feels nicer than blown air, it’s kinda less stuffy.

I’m not sure rads would work very well, I think the benefit is taking the heat out of the floor slab, but it won’t hurt.

Noice, looking forward to testing it out as the planet melts.

Who's got the heating on now? Current agreement is only the bathroom UFH in the morning, but pressure is building for turning on properly. Might be OK to hold out this week while the weather stays mild I hope.

I've put it on twice in the last two weeks for 30 minutes each time for child illness reasons. Otherwise it's still in summer mode.

The last week we've been putting it on about 7pm until about 9pm to warm the bedrooms (we're in Scotland). I left it on last night until 2am...#golfclub - result being the 4 year old slept for nearly 12 hours. Either a coincidence or actually she's been waking up as she's so cold and coming into our room to warm up in our bed.

My wife has now suggested we leave the heating on longer so...shit going to get expensive.

me, it's been around 6c at night here in glasgow last few nights. Only for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening.

I'm experimenting with flow temps from the boiler as we just got a bunch of new rads in. Want to see how low I can get it while still getting rooms warm - currently at 60c which is working fine but I think lower would be better and would allow for the condensing feature to work better too.

why not just get better/thicker blankets? AFAIK the science on sleep is that a colder room is actually better (so long as the body's core heat is ok under a good blanket)

She has her duvet, plus a quilted blanket and then this fleece thing, much more and she might not be able to move/get out of bed (maybe that's what I should aim for 😊). I'm all for saying its a coincidence but it's going to cost ALOT of money to prove that as we'll need to trial with heating on for a few days to get to statistical significance.

Nah, too soon. Turned it on to test it the other day for half an hour when it got a bit chilly but it's 18 outside right now!

(Being in Scotland or child illness are valid exemptions, obvs)

It's 14°c in Edinburgh right now but with a vicious wind. I'm pretty chilly sat indoors, but I'm not putting heating on just yet. We had a nice fire last night which warmed the living room up nicely.

USB heated vest is a bit of a life saver

I'm tempted by one of these. What did you find the sizing like?

I got a UK large which is actually labelled a 2XL, but it's not. I'd say if you want it close fitting stick to your real size, but better to go up a size I reckon.

Heat exchange pumps. That's the norm in Europe for the last 10-15 years and because most of England at least never gets as cold as back home in winter, down to -15 and less - it would cost costs peanuts to heat both the house and water here as they run better when not as cold. Never understood why they never took off here, could be (no more) cheap gas prices.

I'm installing one on a 225 year old stone built property, 3500 square feet, no insulation apart the loft. 15k investment, but with 5k gas bill per year if I lived there all year.....Next door B&B with a restaurant and 12 apts had two installed and their heating bill went down by 80%.

You can still get EU/gov grants for them, no idea if you can do same in UK since Brexshit.

You can get a £5k grant if it's replacing a gas boiler.

so we shouldn't be draft proofing now?

You should be draftproofing but you also need controlled ventilation

We had a nice fire last night which warmed the living room up nicely.

May also cool down the rest of the house, ironically, by drawing muchos cold external air, as the fire drives hot air up and out of the chimney, causing the rest of the house to breathe in external air to replace it.

Open fires are aout 20% efficient at heating a room. Burners, the opposite or better. If you are going to have pyrotechnics in your house, get a burner.

i toyed with putting on long trousers for the first time since the start of summer last night but the shorts remained on, with the spanish plume arriving i'm hoping the shorts can now stay till at least november.

open the windows it's 18c outside ( if you are in london that is ). it's like free central heating !

I've had long-johns on since the start of the month, and they'll likely be here until April :D

I have retired the shorts for joggers, eyeing up some of those heat tech pile lined joggers from Uniqlo that someone posted for the winter months

Had a look at those but legs don't really get cold and I reckon my knackers would overheat. Have got heat tech tops though and considering going for the 'ultra' version for this winter.

You've got Long John's what on?

Main trouble I find is cold fingers. Can't wear gloves as I'm typing/using a mouse.

Fingerless gloves/wrist warmers?