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On 19 Dec, 16:12, chris French
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There seems to be floating about among some people I know online the
idea that keeping the central heating on all the time is cheaper than
turning it off at night. Not sure where it comes from, but seeing as
they all frequent the same/ related e-mail lists, maybe from there.

The basic idea seems to be that it costs more to heat the house back up
in the morning, than to keep it at the same temp.

now I know it depends on things like internal and external temp (we have
a programmable stat set at 12-13 C, it hardly seems to turn on except
when down to about freezing outside from what I can tell),

But in principle it seems rubbish, it must use more energy to keep
something hot, than to let it cool and then reheat., but a couple of
people had been hard to convince, esp. as a 'plumber told me it)

Or is my brain addled?? :-)
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Chris French

ISTR hearing that the story began with experiments on immersion
heaters and was erroneously extrapolated to central heating which is,
of course, completely different.

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so what was the result of the immersion heater and in what way was it
completely different (I agree that it is, I interested in what the tester
thought was the difference)

tim