When does your Heating usually go on?
23-10-2025, 21:17
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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A few minutes I'd say. Do your radiators start to heat up instantly?
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Maybe a daft question, but do have TRVs fitted to all the radiators, apart from the one with the thermostat in?
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23-10-2025, 21:20
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
Manual trvs all round except from the radiator that loops. Why do you ask?
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23-10-2025, 21:39
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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A few minutes I'd say. Do your radiators start to heat up instantly?
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Pretty much yes, something my old old boiler never did, atleast that I can remember as it was 28 years old.
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23-10-2025, 22:09
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
This is a fascinating thread. I'm totally gripped.
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23-10-2025, 22:36
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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This is a fascinating thread. I'm totally gripped.
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it's definitely heating up
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23-10-2025, 23:00
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
Mine has been just overhauled last week by a new firm and it's been coming on the last 3 nights. I'm toasty warm at the moment.
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24-10-2025, 10:25
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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What's your thermostat temperature set at? Mine is set to 20c.
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20c is kind of low, mines set at 22c this evening and it's comfortable with a jumper on although the outside weather isn't helping as it's dodgy as hell, but I don't walk around in skimpy shorts like you said you do.
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I've had to increase the desired temperature. 20c was far too cold this morning. I've put it on 21c which seems good right now.
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24-10-2025, 10:34
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
Wife put heating on yesterday, still can't see it needed.
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24-10-2025, 11:49
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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Manual trvs all round except from the radiator that loops. Why do you ask?
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Most older installations I see had not been upgraded to TRVs, but a few had them fitted in the same area as the main thermostat. Luckily, their boilers had not exploded or spurted hot water as they had inbuilt pressure relief loops.
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24-10-2025, 11:59
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
I had the whole system upgraded around 10 years ago. New double radiators everywhere except bathroom, hallway and one in the front room. Two doubles are not allowed in the same room. New manual trvs, valves.
Do you have a delay between when your DT4 calls for heat and your boiler fires up? Also does your boiler temperature reach high levels? Mine is acting strange, a delay and boiler temp is in the 40s 
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24-10-2025, 12:18
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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I had the whole system upgraded around 10 years ago. New double radiators everywhere except bathroom, hallway and one in the front room. Two doubles are not allowed in the same room. New manual trvs, valves.
Do you have a delay between when your DT4 calls for heat and your boiler fires up? Also does your boiler temperature reach high levels? Mine is acting strange, a delay and boiler temp is in the 40s |
Oh all these headaches we're now getting with super efficient heating systems.
sadly no more of "it's a bit chilly love, shove another lump of coal on the fire"
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24-10-2025, 13:16
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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Oh all these headaches we're now getting with super efficient heating systems.
sadly no more of "it's a bit chilly love, shove another lump of coal on the fire"
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Ah, the "good old days’…
We had things then we don’t have now - you know, like Diptheria, rickets, smog…
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/g...lled-thousands
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In December of 1952, a thick smog descended over the city for four days, sickening many and killing at least 4,000 people.
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Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be… 
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24-10-2025, 13:48
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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Oh all these headaches we're now getting with super efficient heating systems.
sadly no more of "it's a bit chilly love, shove another lump of coal on the fire"
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well that's how it works here, i have a sold fuel stove [does great roasted chestnuts]
my neighbour has a wood burner, he fuels it with scrap wood he picks up here and there for free, i think he was burning some wood he got from the fish dock last night as it smelt like he was smoking kippers
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24-10-2025, 14:02
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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Ah, the "good old days’…
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You're right Hugh, things we had then that we don't have now . .
Crap Politicians
Union Strikes
Football Hooligans
Regular public transport (unless striking)
Industry
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Dentists 
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24-10-2025, 15:51
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Re: When does your Heating usually go on?
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I've had to increase the desired temperature. 20c was far too cold this morning. I've put it on 21c which seems good right now.
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Sounds like it's working correctly now with the temperature.
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