On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:04:36 -0000, "ARWadsworth"
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"MM" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:07:01 -0000, "ARWadsworth"
wrote:

And you press the switch that costs you more money than heating heating by
oil.

So you reckon I could have got the same amount of *targeted* warmth
(i.e. only where I am at at any given moment) over the past 110 days
from less than a £100's worth of heating oil? Because that is how much
I've spent on top of my usual electricity bill. One hundred pounds.
Less than a quid a day. Do you reckon your CH is costing you less than
a quid a day?

MM

Over the winter months my heating bill was more than a quid a day.
I do not go for the completely unheated house though. I also heat the
hallway, landing and bathroom. I would find it rather unplasant having no
heating on at all in those rooms.

Ah, you see, I don't. I wear a jersey. I grew up in houses without CH.
I am a hardy soul.

My winter heating cost me £130 for 90 days. Of course I might be out of the
house for a lot longer than you or prefer a cooler temperature. The room
stat in the hall is usually set at 17 deg.

The temperature in my hall dropped to 10 deg during the coldest
nights. But I'm only in the hall for a matter of seconds while I walk
to the room I occupy.

Have you thought about a wireless roomstat that you can take around with
you?

Is there such a thing?

By all means use the electric fan for the instantaneous heating when you
first enter a cold room but turn the radiator on. As the radiator heats up
(so seem to have a big time lag) you can then turn the fan off and you can
control your room temperature with the remote stat.

How would the remote stat work anyway? How would I connect it to the
existing CH system? (I think this is all rather "blue sky" thinking on
your part, actually.)

MM