skint and no heating

[noseall]

I see the forum bullies are active.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I see the forum bullies are active.

Yes, today at 7:47 AM.

 

[transam]

I see the forum bullies are active.

Yes Noseall you are still active

 

[G1zm0]

You got that free (taxpayer-funded) heat pump organised yet?

its a 7.5.grant and still has 4k to pay.

 

[ericmark]

I look at the cost of central heating to run, and the cost of a small oil filled radiator and the like, and it does seem central heating is an expensive way to heat a room. I pay around £800 a year for oil, only used for half the year, so £800/26 = £30 a week, or £4.40 a day.

If I assume 8 hours working and 2 hours travelling then want room warm for 14 hours, at 30p/kWh that means a 1 kW heater on for 14 hours and we break even.

 

[ericmark]

By change I came across this Channel 4+ documentary by Guy Martin. It starts by as with most talking about insulation and draft proofing, then it starts to get into the nitty-gritty of humidity. We are told the ideal relative humidity (RH) for a home is generally recommended to be between 30% and 50%, and to heat the home keeping below the 50% limit, we need to either except some drafts, or fit heat recovery unit of some type, or use a dehumidifier.

I tried fitting an extractor fan with a humidity switch in my fathers bedroom when we fitted a step in shower in the room, it did not want to switch off. Once the sensor gets wet, it is not sensing the air any more, but drying out, and once the relative humidity hits around 85% we start to get water forming on the sensor, so the sensors basic stop working at 85%.

Getting the house more humid is easy, add some plants, but making it less humid is hard.

 

[johnny2007]

By change I came across this Channel 4+ documentary by Guy Martin. It starts by as with most talking about insulation and draft proofing, then it starts to get into the nitty-gritty of humidity. We are told the ideal relative humidity (RH) for a home is generally recommended to be between 30% and 50%, and to heat the home keeping below the 50% limit, we need to either except some drafts, or fit heat recovery unit of some type, or use a dehumidifier.

I tried fitting an extractor fan with a humidity switch in my fathers bedroom when we fitted a step in shower in the room, it did not want to switch off. Once the sensor gets wet, it is not sensing the air any more, but drying out, and once the relative humidity hits around 85% we start to get water forming on the sensor, so the sensors basic stop working at 85%.

Getting the house more humid is easy, add some plants, but making it less humid is hard.

Sometimes the boss puts the heating at 20⁰ and humidity in the house goes below 50%.
My throat starts getting dry and I cough, hot flushes, burning feeling on my feet and dry eyes.
Maybe it's because I grew up in a coastal town, but I think best humidity level in the house is around 65% and temperature at 18⁰.

 

[ericmark]

Utility room 12.9°C at 64% relative humidity, and flat 16°C at 51% RH, but heated rooms 18.7°C at 49% RH (my bedroom) and 22.1°C at 41% RH + 23°C at 48% RH (my living room) both in the same room. Plus 20.5°C at 51% RH the hall. How accurate the Bresser, Wiser, and Nest units are I don't know.

But the question is more down to when the %RH is too high.