Heating thermostat
 

Just wondering - do you program yours to change temps during the day/night?

We're here all day, so it's on all day long, but I was wondering if I should program it to cool down at night when we're asleep to save a bit of fuel costs (gas)?

At the moment I have it set to 71oF all day/night and don't change it....

Admittedly, the temperature isn't as severe down here, so only gets to about -10oC overnight.

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Yes. Ours is new and Celsius-enabled so I now understand what temperature we're setting. We keep the house at 19C during the day (OH is in and out all day long, youngsters don't keep regular school hours yet) and down to 16C overnight. That's about 66 and 61 in old money. Our shiny new furnace/thermostat has a brain that works out how many degrees of heating/cooling you need to reach the next set point, and fires up early so that the temperature is reached at exactly the time you want to reach it. So I set the temp to 19 for 6.00am when the alarm goes off, and the furnace kicks in about 15 minutes before that.

I'd add that some of our neighbours think our house is unreasonably cold and I'm a cruel-hearted cheapskate; conversely I find theirs unbearably warm most of the winter. They can always put on an extra sweater when visiting us; I'd raise a few eyebrows if I removed layers beyond the bounds of decency. Even so, 21.5C (71F) seems pretty warm to me.

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No. It's more efficient with radiant heated floors to maintain a constant temperature.

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v good point - it depends on the heating system.

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That sounds clever - ours appears to have the ability to be programmed, but I have no instruction manual (rented house), so haven't been bothered to spend the time working out how to program it thus far. It's also in farenheit, so it took me a while to work out what the Celcius equivalents were (too lazy to google).

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I'm impressed with our new one. The c.1985 piece of junk it replaced was supposedly programmable. I think it was probably state of the art in its day - you could theoretically programme in a "comfort zone" range of temperature and it would automatically switch between heating and cooling as required by the changing of the seasons. But every one of the technicians we had in to service the old system or to quote for the new one took a look at it, scratched their head, and said words to the effect of "never seen one like that before. No idea how that's supposed to work." The previous owners left us a (well thumbed) user guide, but we never got beyond setting a temperature and leaving well enough alone for 2 years!

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That's where I'm at right now - I know how to switch it between Heat and Cool and to set a temp, but haven't ventured into programming it.... Now winter is starting to set in, I was thinking that it's going to be keeping the house toasty, when we're all tucked under the covers, so might be worth turning it down a touch overnight...

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Ours is an 'intelligent' system too - the 'puter monitors outside air temperature, determines whether it's rising/falling/constant and then decides whether the water tank will need filling and/or heating according to the demand levels it's learned we use.

Our hot water on demand furnace is supplemented by a water tank that is interchangeable between faucet water demand, and radiant heating demand. Means we never have more water being heated than we need.

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You went to boarding school, didn't you?

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God, is it that obvious?

/fondly remembers cold showers after early-morning cross-country running training...

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17 degress at night ( and day if we are not in ), 20 degrees max when we are in.

Funny how my wife complains it is cold at 20 degrees in the winter but if the house was 20 degrees in the summer, she would be looking to whack on the air-con.

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I shall now call you Tompkinson.

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I have the thermostats set to 12 or 15c in every room and it still gets too hot, especially at night. They seem to love overheating every room here though, been in some other peoples places and they must be set to 25c :blink:

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Has your furnace ever actually turned on?

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At those temperatures you would not survive the winter in most other parts of Canada unless you all wore parkas, woolly caps, gloves and snow pants inside.