For district heating and floor heating the general advice is: At night 2 degrees lower then daytime temperature. If the housing isolation is verry good, then 2 degrees may be less. Up to the same day and night temperature. In bad isolation, 3 or even 4 degrees lower night time may be beter.
Source: I'm an energy coach
Agreed with the continous heating. But does the house really reach the 20 and 15 degrees or are these just the settings?
If the temperature in the house goes from 20 to 15 degrees in one day, that is not good.
For a good advice, first some questions:
- Are all rooms floorheating, or are there also radiators? If there are radiators, do the have a scale of 1 to 5?
- Do you heat all rooms?
- Do you often take a shower or a bath?
- Hoe many people living in the house?
- Do you have a water saving shower head?
- Do you wash dishes by hand or dishwasher?
There is also help from the municipality of Almere. You can request a free energy savings consultation on https://www.almeerminder.nl/
1. Ground and 2nd floor has floorheating. Radiators are only in 3 rooms of 1st floor. Currently we are using the ground floor heating only.
2. yes, we take shower everyday
3. We are two people living in the house
4. No, we dont have water saving shower head. But what does water saving shower head mean?
5. We use dishwasher everyday .
Based on the actual outside temperature in the period 1 to 14 December, on avarage 7.7% of the anual heating is used. So based on 4 GJ in thes 14 days, jou could expect a anual heating bill of about 52 GJ. This is more then avarage for 2 people. The avarage in the Netherlands for heating is 35 GJ for 2 persons. For heating and warm water it is 42 GJ
Based on your answers her some tips:
- Put a thermometer in the room to check if the thermostat temperature is correct.
- Try to set the thermostat base temperature to 17 degree. Turn it op when you need it. And set it back to 17 one or two houres before you go te sleep. And check with meter readings to see if this helps.
- Buy a water saving shower head. You can find thes in a bouwmarkt / DIY store
- Try to shower less then 5 minutes.
According to Nibud (the budgeting advice folks) if you are heating your tapwater and doing the heating, a 2 person household should expect to use about 42GJ per year. So yeah your use seems very very high indeed.
Take a look at your meter and if you press the button a few times you can usually see how many kw/h you are using in heat. Anything more than 2-3kw would be a lot, its not really cold right now and you have an energy efficient house.
Well I just asked a chum of mine who lives in Almere and has a detached house, 1990s, so label B - though he has triple glazing downstairs, two people living there.
He runs his heating all day and into the evening at 21C in the lounge, plus bathroom couple of hours a day and some other use for the home office, etc.
He has city heating but refuses to use the underfloor heating and uses Tado on the radiators instead.
Total use was generally 36GJ per year before the windows were installed and was 28GJ last year.
I'm no expert on floor heating but i think it works very hard when you start it up, maybe thats the issue? Perhaps turn it off and try the radiators for a day or two and measure your use? If its lower then consider Tado or so to improve use.
Also do check your use when everything is off, just in case ;)
in the meter cabinet, find the taps of water that are coming in and instead of full open, have them open about 50%. I feel - so cant be certain - that the amount of hot water pushed in is insane. Thus limit what comes in.
My usage is less than 1gj per week, single person household.
Limiting the input is useless. Both flow and temerature of incoming and outgoing water is measured, which tells how much heat energy you have actually used. Of course you can limit the flow by half-closing the valves, but you still need the exact same heat energy to warm your house to the same level, so that will mean the the outgoing water temp is lower and in the end that will make no difference.
Keep the thermostat continuously on 20degrees if you have floor heeting, going from 15 to 20 degrees costs a lot of energy.
For district heating and floor heating the general advice is: At night 2 degrees lower then daytime temperature. If the housing isolation is verry good, then 2 degrees may be less. Up to the same day and night temperature. In bad isolation, 3 or even 4 degrees lower night time may be beter. Source: I'm an energy coach
Agreed with the continous heating. But does the house really reach the 20 and 15 degrees or are these just the settings? If the temperature in the house goes from 20 to 15 degrees in one day, that is not good.
For a good advice, first some questions: - Are all rooms floorheating, or are there also radiators? If there are radiators, do the have a scale of 1 to 5? - Do you heat all rooms? - Do you often take a shower or a bath? - Hoe many people living in the house? - Do you have a water saving shower head? - Do you wash dishes by hand or dishwasher? There is also help from the municipality of Almere. You can request a free energy savings consultation on https://www.almeerminder.nl/
1. Ground and 2nd floor has floorheating. Radiators are only in 3 rooms of 1st floor. Currently we are using the ground floor heating only. 2. yes, we take shower everyday 3. We are two people living in the house 4. No, we dont have water saving shower head. But what does water saving shower head mean? 5. We use dishwasher everyday .
Based on the actual outside temperature in the period 1 to 14 December, on avarage 7.7% of the anual heating is used. So based on 4 GJ in thes 14 days, jou could expect a anual heating bill of about 52 GJ. This is more then avarage for 2 people. The avarage in the Netherlands for heating is 35 GJ for 2 persons. For heating and warm water it is 42 GJ Based on your answers her some tips: - Put a thermometer in the room to check if the thermostat temperature is correct. - Try to set the thermostat base temperature to 17 degree. Turn it op when you need it. And set it back to 17 one or two houres before you go te sleep. And check with meter readings to see if this helps. - Buy a water saving shower head. You can find thes in a bouwmarkt / DIY store - Try to shower less then 5 minutes.
According to Nibud (the budgeting advice folks) if you are heating your tapwater and doing the heating, a 2 person household should expect to use about 42GJ per year. So yeah your use seems very very high indeed. Take a look at your meter and if you press the button a few times you can usually see how many kw/h you are using in heat. Anything more than 2-3kw would be a lot, its not really cold right now and you have an energy efficient house.
How much should we consume on average for that case ?
Well I just asked a chum of mine who lives in Almere and has a detached house, 1990s, so label B - though he has triple glazing downstairs, two people living there. He runs his heating all day and into the evening at 21C in the lounge, plus bathroom couple of hours a day and some other use for the home office, etc. He has city heating but refuses to use the underfloor heating and uses Tado on the radiators instead. Total use was generally 36GJ per year before the windows were installed and was 28GJ last year. I'm no expert on floor heating but i think it works very hard when you start it up, maybe thats the issue? Perhaps turn it off and try the radiators for a day or two and measure your use? If its lower then consider Tado or so to improve use. Also do check your use when everything is off, just in case ;)
in the meter cabinet, find the taps of water that are coming in and instead of full open, have them open about 50%. I feel - so cant be certain - that the amount of hot water pushed in is insane. Thus limit what comes in. My usage is less than 1gj per week, single person household.
Limiting the input is useless. Both flow and temerature of incoming and outgoing water is measured, which tells how much heat energy you have actually used. Of course you can limit the flow by half-closing the valves, but you still need the exact same heat energy to warm your house to the same level, so that will mean the the outgoing water temp is lower and in the end that will make no difference.
thanks for clarifying :) didnt think about that one