Donate SIGN UP

Central heating while away - maybe Builder can answer?

Avatar Image
abstibus | 08:57 Sun 16th Oct 2011 | Home & Garden
5 Answers
If I go away over Christmas and New Year, what temperature should I set my CH at?
Do I need to leave all the radiators I use on?
I live in a three floor stone built Victorian town house.
Many thanks, and apologies if such a question has already been answered.
Gravatar

Answers

1 to 5 of 5rss feed

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by abstibus. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
Iwould think 68 is ample and if you have therrmo xalves fitted turn em down a notch except where there is water ie bathroom and kitchen cus you don't want a freeze up in the old pipes
We have a tall centre terrace Victorian House, and we usually leave ours on 24 hours, with the thermostat set at 15 degrees if we are away (it only runs at about 18-20 degrees anyway when we are here). That means that if it gets really chilly, the heating will click on automatically. We never turn off any of our radiators.
We usually leave ours on 16 when we are away. Just to prevent any burst pipes
Hi annemollie ......... can only repeat what the others have already said. There is a frost setting on TRVs (thermo rad valves). It's a little snowflake symbol. That does leave the house rather too cold though. Not at all good for the fabric of the building in midwinter.

If you have a roomstat, 15 sounds right. If you don't have one, turn the TRVs down to say, 2
If you have neither of these (very unlikely) turn the boiler temp control down to around halfway.
Question Author
Thank you all very much for your advice.
A-M

1 to 5 of 5rss feed

Do you know the answer?

Central heating while away - maybe Builder can answer?

Answer Question >>

Related Questions

Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.