I'm surprised you need your heating on at that level all the time @Fire. Is your house badly insulated?
Having it set to a flat temp doesn't mean it is constantly running.
Mine is set at 19C all the time. How much time it actually runs, I couldn't tell you, it switches to the thermostat and it's in a shed and makes no noise. My guess would be it runs about an hour a day at the moment in the wee small hours (based on how much electricity we use and how the temperature drifts during the day). We have underfloor heating so it there's no sudden temperature change between on and off, either, or that clicking sound the pipes make with radiators as it comes on. It just does it's thing and we leave it to get on with it. That is how it goes with a heat pump, tiny tweaks rather than abrupt steps
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Raisingirl,am assuming that is because your pump is in a shed, because obviously there has been a lot written and spoken about heat pumps recently, saying how noisy the fans are. We had back boilers behind gas fires in our last houses. We have a fairly new boiler here,hubby installed new rads,all the pipes are lagged,no noise. My daughter was convinced her house was haunted, because of the gurgling, wheezing,etc. My phone actually decided your MUM was in the shed, perhaps she's operating the pump!
We do something a bit different as we have a system that controls the temp in each room, so we only heat the room/s we are in. Yes we have to pre-plan a bit, but it can be set remotely using a smartphone. Prior to that system we moved the thermostat from the hall to the main living area, otherwise we were heating a hallway (prone to drafts from opening the front door and heat being lost up the stairs) for no reason. Why are thermostats in hallways often??
I have a portable, wireless thermostat which is great. It measures to half a degree so I can control heat in the room I'm in, though not attached to internet or phone. I have radiator therms which are set low in rooms I don't use much. For one person in a small house the system works pretty well.
We have the system, like others, where it's 'on' all the time, just triggered by thermostat settings. We have six settings over each 24 hour period, and each day can be different. So it's generally 15 or so overnight, 18 or 19 during the waking hours, but with adjustments made for when we're usually home or not, and cooler during the day when we're more likely to be moving around and keeping warmer. The cooler overnight temperatures kick in at different times on different days, eg later at the weekend. It was a lot more variable pre-covid, but now there's almost always someone home, and OH is sat still at a computer for work etc.
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We find because the heating goes off two hours before we usually go to bed then the temperature stays warm enough not to bother having other settings before it comes on in the morning.
In warmer months we just turn the thermostat down so the heating doesn't come on at all, regardless of the settings on the boiler clock. But I do remember to adjust the clock when they go forward or back.
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Mine is set at 19C all the time. How much time it actually runs, I couldn't tell you, it switches to the thermostat and it's in a shed and makes no noise. My guess would be it runs about an hour a day at the moment in the wee small hours (based on how much electricity we use and how the temperature drifts during the day). We have underfloor heating so it there's no sudden temperature change between on and off, either, or that clicking sound the pipes make with radiators as it comes on. It just does it's thing and we leave it to get on with it. That is how it goes with a heat pump, tiny tweaks rather than abrupt steps
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...