My plumber recommended that we keep our UFH on 24hours. ....... I have to say I do not subscribe to this theory that if it's on 24hrs it will only call on the boiler when room temperature drops. Sounds so logical in theory. But with 13 stats able to call on the boiler in our house, it's as if there is almost always at least one calling on the boiler at any one time. Plus, you're potentially wasting energy keeping, for example, a sitting room warm from midnight until the following evening even though it's not used. Crazy. And in case someone suggests it, our house is occupied all day with little nippers, so has to be warm all day, and it is with this schedule of heating.
Have done searches but not finding answers in relation to this.
We moved in to our new house in june - had to refill the oil tank 2 weeks ago and we checked it at the weekend and its half gone already - it has used 450litres in 2 weeks!!
We have underfloor heating down stairs & rads upstairs. As we were off work over the hols the UFH was switched on from 9am - 11pm. Upstairs rads were only on for approx 2 hours a day.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me this is not the norm for UFH. To me it means there must be a problem??? Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated on this.
..... compared to experience of houses with radiators (and well insulated ones at that) the heat lasts longer, especially for example in the bedrooms which maintain a comfortable heat all night. In any radiator heated house we had, we always had the upstairs heat coming on before we got up. In our current house, it's just downstairs that gets a small boost in the morning. Hope this helps.
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