In article ,
Mike Tullett writes:
with all the cold weather. It was great in 62/63 in my first year at Uni.
(courting at that time), but a re-run would go down like a lead balloon
with me. I'm fed up with having to watch I don't slip, or that the cars
don't, or having to leave the boiler on at night to stop freezing in one of
the feed pipes. 9 days of frost and snow on the ground is enough for me
now.


My sympathy. Though I'm 61, and slipped over not once but twice on the
Saturday before Christmas, I still haven't lost my own childish - if
irrational - desire for snow.

As for the boiler, I leave it on - and the central heating at about 19C
overnight - not to prevent freezing of the pipes but the freezing of me!
I like it not to be too perishing when I get up. I suppose I really
ought to invest in a time-clock that I could use to switch it on an hour
or so before I get up.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

So John your one of the people unnecessarily adding to the global
warming buy not investing in a time clock for your CH, it's 2009, not
1969 !.
Also don't you think 19 C is too warm for a bedroom ?

Michael in coldish NE FL.

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MahFL writes:
So John your one of the people unnecessarily adding to the global
warming buy not investing in a time clock for your CH, it's 2009, not
1969 !.

I'm afraid that I don't like getting new things much, and the older I
get the less I like them. So I'm generally among the last to acquire any
new gadget (though I did make an exception in the case of the Internet).

Also don't you think 19 C is too warm for a bedroom ?

The thermostat is in the sitting room. My bedroom is probably several
degrees cooler.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article
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MahFL writes:
So John your one of the people unnecessarily adding to the global
warming buy not investing in a time clock for your CH, it's 2009, not
1969 !.

I'm afraid that I don't like getting new things much, and the older I
get the less I like them. So I'm generally among the last to acquire any
new gadget (though I did make an exception in the case of the Internet).

Also don't you think 19 C is too warm for a bedroom ?

The thermostat is in the sitting room. My bedroom is probably several
degrees cooler.
--

I keep mine at 20C in the daytime, controlled by the thermostat in the
living room. Blown warm air, so the vents upstairs are kept closed, which
keeps it around 17C up there. Bedtime, and the thermostat gets knocked back
to 15C, with all the doors left open.. I can't sleep in anything hotter.

jim, Northampton



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On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:36:41 +0000, John Hall wrote:

As for the boiler, I leave it on - and the central heating at about 19C
overnight - not to prevent freezing of the pipes but the freezing of me!
I like it not to be too perishing when I get up.


I suppose I really ought to invest in a time-clock that I could use to
switch it on an hour or so before I get up.

Much better new fangled things than simple time clocks available now
called "programmable room stats". They enable you to set specfic
temperatures for programable periods of the day and/or day of week.
Decent ones allow 6 periods/day and different programs every day of
the week. You don't *have* to have different settings each day, ours
doesn't and it has a "copy" function so set up one day then copy it
to all the others. And some will start the heating cycle the correct
amount of time before the first set point such that that set points
temperature is reached at that time.

If your heating really is on 24/7 I suspect you would see a noticable
drop in your fuel bill after fitting a programable stat and setting a
night temperature of say 15C. 61 maybe still working, heating the
house to 19C during the day, if there is no one there, is wasteful as
well.

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice writes:
Much better new fangled things than simple time clocks available now
called "programmable room stats". They enable you to set specfic
temperatures for programable periods of the day and/or day of week.
Decent ones allow 6 periods/day and different programs every day of
the week. You don't *have* to have different settings each day, ours
doesn't and it has a "copy" function so set up one day then copy it
to all the others. And some will start the heating cycle the correct
amount of time before the first set point such that that set points
temperature is reached at that time.

If your heating really is on 24/7 I suspect you would see a noticable
drop in your fuel bill after fitting a programable stat and setting a
night temperature of say 15C. 61 maybe still working, heating the
house to 19C during the day, if there is no one there, is wasteful as
well.

Thanks for all the info. Now that I'm retired, I'm at home most of the
time. I got into the habit of keeping the house fairly warm for the
benefit of my elderly parents - my father in particular almost always
seemed to feel cold. Now they are no longer with us, I have turned down
the thermostat somewhat.
--
John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps,
like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed
its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps."
Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place"

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:14:20 +0000, John Hall wrote:

Thanks for all the info. Now that I'm retired, I'm at home most of the
time.

Being home most of the time you might not see much saving in fitting
a programmable stat but probably will have an improvement in comfort,
warm first thing, bit lower during the day when you are active, then
higher in the evening and drop back even lower overnight. I certainly
would not go back to a normal room stat and simple time switch now.

I got into the habit of keeping the house fairly warm for the
benefit of my elderly parents - my father in particular almost always
seemed to feel cold.

My Dad does, his feet feel like ice cubes all the time and his hands
feel cold but then he is 95. Don't know what his room stat is set to,
wouldn't be surprised if it was the mid 20's, I melt when I visit...

--
Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

Dave Liquorice wrote:

My Dad does, his feet feel like ice cubes all the time and his hands
feel cold but then he is 95. Don't know what his room stat is set to,
wouldn't be surprised if it was the mid 20's, I melt when I visit...

When my mother was living with me, the lounge thermostat was on 26 generally
but 27 in cold weather.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."