Recent content by razorhazor

Hi, I agree with you, the hot water is certainly using the gas more than the CH but I guess the point is that the time to take 2 showers and run a small bath is alot less than having the heating on, so we are noticing that the CH is sapping more gas than the water. I've made a couple of...

Two adults and one child, I worked out the 25p by entering the meter readings into an app I have for my iPhone, it uses my Kw/h cost and a conversion ratio of 31.5 from the meter reading to Kw/h.

ok, I'll give that a go thanks. We have TRV's on the rads upstairs and most of them are turned off as the heat tends to contain upstairs in the evenings. Hot water is absolutely fine.

If it helps, I've ran through a BTU calculator I found online: http://www.radcalcs.com/ and total BTU's for the house is 48379 which apparently works out at 14.17Kw.

Thanks for the quick response again. It doesn't take long at all, literally a couple of minutes. I've checked the D.0 setting and its 24Kw which I think is the default setting, I've seen a few posts mention dropping that value, any suggestions what to?

thanks for the quick response. So this morning I started the boiler from cold, unfortunately I took the two readings over 19 minutes, but that equated to: (9516.5-9516.4)*322 = 32.2Kw Does that help, or is the 19 minute gap too large?

Hi, I live in a rented house and we have a Vaillant EcoTec Plus 831 installed. I've noticed that Gas bills are coming in very high since we've had the heating on, the house is a 3 bed semi 5 large rads, 2 small rads and 2 towel rail heaters. With the heating on for an hour with Rad...