@retrotecchie every day is a school day when you and @meldrewreborn are around!
@ANN8619 thanks for sharing that link it was interesting to read a bit more about smart thermostats as you say though it would be interesting to hear form someone who actually has one installed.
"Green is the prime colour of the world and that from which it's loveliness arises"-Pedro Calderon De La Barca 🌳
I have a smart thermostat but it's 'smart' in the sense of effective rather than 'smart' in the sense of 'WiFi connected'. It measures both indoor and outdoor temperatures and uses the differential temperature to control the boiler.
Bearing in mind I have biomass and oil heating, it reduces my heating costs by around 20% compared to a standard stat. And with my heating costs already about half of what gas would cost and a quarter of what any form of electrical heating would cost, it saves even more money and reduces my carbon bootprint significantly 👍
Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player. I DON'T work for or on behalf of EON.Next, but am willing to try and help if I can. Not on mains gas, mobile network or mains drainage. House heated almost entirely by baby dragons.
@retrotecchie that sounds like a great set up! I wish we had something like this in our property. We are similarly heated by the baby dragons and in the dark ages we have no boiler (still an immersion heater) here and we have a multi fuel stove that heats up the radiators and the underfloor heating in the kitchen.
The only draw back is that if we run out of wood/coal then we have no heating as they don't come on without the fire 😏 It can also get costly at the moment we pay almost 60p - £1 a kg for coal (depending where we buy it) we are a smokeless area so it also needs to be smokeless coal which is more expensive and of course coal's not so great for the planet but then those logs don't come cheap either!
Last edited by DebF_EONNext; 21 Hours Ago at 15:34.
Depending on the grade of coal, you get about 6 to 9kWh of energy per kilo from coal so worst case scenario works out at about 15p per kWh and best case is about 7p. Which isn't too shabby and a lot cheaper than electric heating. 7p per kWh is on a par with gas once you figure you are saving on the SC. So yes, it seems expensive if you buy half a tonne in one go, but per kWh it's not outrageous at all. Dirty, polluting and inconvenient maybe, but not a financial disaster by any means.
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