I am now gaining the rewards of building our own home brick by brick and adding twice more insulation than required at the time.
We installed (new at the time) hot water underfloor heating pipes in the floors, with shower room and bathroom with it built in the walls as well
.
There was no gas when we first designed the property 30+ years ago so we put in an open fire with wraparound boiler plus large water heat store for the hot water and central heating.
A gas main was put in our lane in our village about 10years ago so I put in a Condensing boiler and took out the heat store.
The open fire (about 10 to 15% efficient
)was in use in the winter time until about a month ago, since then I have installed a Multi-fuel Stove (85% Efficient
) that I lit for the first time two days ago, what a difference of the heat it gives out
all with free wood from trees I have cut down and dried.
I have been having the gas boiler on 2 Hours in the evening and a half hour boost in the morning.
With this new stove it looks like I will be turning down the time the gas boilers on for.
Going back to Eric's first post, Yes I do '
change the boiler temperature', but my system is totaly different to the norm.