Hello all,
i am hoping that someone on here can help me out with my dilemma....
i am looking for some help to understand what is going on with my boiler (ideal mexico 9 yrs old)
moved in to my house (which is 9 yrs old) on November and have found that i am using lots of gas to heat the house. I expected it to be greater as its a 5 bedroom house, but the usage seems excessive as since january we are using at least 80 units per week. I had set the hot water to be on twice a day for 2 hrs in total as i dont need too much hot water and i have the heating off during the night and also during the day when no one home.
I had a friend who works for scottish gas come out and check my boiler, all seemed fine but he said the boiler was set at maximum 100,000 btu's i think he said. so he set it to the minimum and told me to see how it goes and that the lower setting should burn a lot less gas. after 1 week at this setting i find i am using the same amount of gas.....
so to cut a long story short I am trying to understand why i am still using the same amount of gas after the boiler setting has been turned from max to minimum?
thanks in advance
peter
i am hoping that someone on here can help me out with my dilemma....
i am looking for some help to understand what is going on with my boiler (ideal mexico 9 yrs old)
moved in to my house (which is 9 yrs old) on November and have found that i am using lots of gas to heat the house. I expected it to be greater as its a 5 bedroom house, but the usage seems excessive as since january we are using at least 80 units per week. I had set the hot water to be on twice a day for 2 hrs in total as i dont need too much hot water and i have the heating off during the night and also during the day when no one home.
I had a friend who works for scottish gas come out and check my boiler, all seemed fine but he said the boiler was set at maximum 100,000 btu's i think he said. so he set it to the minimum and told me to see how it goes and that the lower setting should burn a lot less gas. after 1 week at this setting i find i am using the same amount of gas.....
so to cut a long story short I am trying to understand why i am still using the same amount of gas after the boiler setting has been turned from max to minimum?
thanks in advance
peter