Well my old thermostat was neatly hidden behind some furniture so what did I do to keep warm these last 18 years with the old boiler.
To start with I set it at 21 degrees C as room temperature is about 25. I was still cold so I set it at 25 degrees C. I am still cold I kept checking on the old thermostat to see if the heating had stopped.
I was uncomfortable. I thought let me see at which setting I would be happy. I set it at 36 degrees C. I am still cold. So I kept increasing it until I found my ideal temperature which was 45 degrees C.
Now to warm my flat 24 hours a day at that temperature is expensive. So what to do?. I made sure the heating was off during the periods I was not at home. Then to switch it on when I had arrived.
The boiler at this setting would switch on and within a short moment, up the temperature in the room and when I was leaving I would switch the boiler off again. This made my heating cost bearable. So to keep warm. I hid my thermostat after setting it to 45 degrees C. Then operated a manual operation to switch it on and off when it’s required.
Now with Hive my thermostat is set at 19 degrees C. When I am in or out and I can check on this at work, still set at 19 degrees C.
When I get back home I have a nice warm flat and lots of piping hot water. I could raise the temperature via the thermostat or remotely on my phone. Easy peasy and cheap too.
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