Power saving using the heating panel

[Ole 14]

Hi all!

 

My main reason for investing in home automation was power saving when it comes to heating our house. I have experimented with lower temperatures during the night and day based on what kind of room it is and how much it is usually used and have indeed saved energy.

 

But, I have also experimented with the same in our bathroom, but am unsure as to the benefit of lowering the floor temperature during the night and day in that room. Has anyone tried this with some readings on power consumption over time as opposed to just keeping the bathroom at the same temperature all the time?

 

Regards

[1152 33]

My experience with bathrooms are that based on tiled concrete floors. This limits the authority to quickly adjust the temperature. We use our bathrooms typically early in the morning and late evening before going to bed. As I'm not willing to compromise on comfort/temperature, the time window and the temperature delta I could play with makes insignificant difference in energy consumption and does not justify any complications or lack of comfort during night visits to the bathrooms, (cold floors)...

 

By the way, I do save energy and cost lowering the temperature in the rest of the house, but are rethinking this as well. My other floors are wood and bamboo. I tend to believe the heating effect on these are  increased by a relative long period of high temperature during the morning hours to regain the comfort temperature in the house. This heating season I will keep a constant temperature and expect the cost of this to be marginal. In the long run it may as well be positive.

[ggoetz56 9]

If you don't have additional radiators you won't have any cost effects. I use floor heating for basic heating about 18° to 20° and additional radiator (i.e. towelholder) for raising to 23° in the mornig and 21° in the evening.  The rest of the day these radiators are shut off.

 

In the new part of the house, where this bathroom is placed, we have no cellar so this may be a special situation, but to me regulate the heat with floor heating is not only useless but contra productive. We have to use an outside tempsensor by law in Germany I dismounted this device. So I have only one central gas heater for floor and radiator heating with a thermal exchanger this may be a special situation as well. In some rooms I installed additional heating sources in the floor heating  section and lowered the floorheating temp at all especially since the children are no longer at school and the house is empty for hours (dogs prefer lower housetemp as well).

 

Btw I did a lot of testing and test special situations also yet. With @petergebruers I'm in discussion for heating a bathroom with 2 radiator (1 small and 1 big ) using  FGT-001 and external probe. I can't mange this over 3 years with lc13, euronic spirt,  devolo with and without roomsensor in a satisfactory way.