Hello all,
I just moved in to a new house with a reasonably old CH/HW setup. I've got a roughly 20 year old (regularly serviced) boiler and a large HW cylinder.
The heating control allows me to program the HW to come on/off twice a day. Initially I have programmed it to come on for a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening.
I noticed that when I went to give my baby daughter a bath at around 4pm (just before the evening switch on) I had relatively little HW.
This made me wonder if the way I have programmed it is the most efficient? Does the system use more gas if I let the water in the cylinder cool throughout the day? Or would it be better to program it to be on during a larger chunk of the day so that the system doesn't have to work as hard to heat the water?
I hope that makes sense. Any advice appreciated
I just moved in to a new house with a reasonably old CH/HW setup. I've got a roughly 20 year old (regularly serviced) boiler and a large HW cylinder.
The heating control allows me to program the HW to come on/off twice a day. Initially I have programmed it to come on for a few hours in the morning and a few hours in the evening.
I noticed that when I went to give my baby daughter a bath at around 4pm (just before the evening switch on) I had relatively little HW.
This made me wonder if the way I have programmed it is the most efficient? Does the system use more gas if I let the water in the cylinder cool throughout the day? Or would it be better to program it to be on during a larger chunk of the day so that the system doesn't have to work as hard to heat the water?
I hope that makes sense. Any advice appreciated