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Energy saving controls

Whether homes are using gas, oil, LPG or electricity, the right heating controls and knowing how to set them correctly will help to get the best from the system. And could also help save money on fuel bills.

In the UK, dwellings create about 27% of the nation’s carbon emissions and, of these, around 75-80% can be attributed to home heating. As energy costs and environmental concerns increase, the need arises to re-evaluate all methods of preventing fuel wastage.

Heating our homes is an essential life-supporting requirement but we have a duty to ensure that our boilers fire only when necessary, and that home temperatures are maintained at the minimum levels commensurate with desired comfort. All previously acceptable areas of energy-wastage, however small, need to be eliminated.

This requires advanced automatic heating controls and, in some cases, different control techniques. The latest energy-saving controls include programmable room thermostats that allow different room temperatures to be set for different periods throughout each day, programmers with optimum or delayed start functions and new control modes such as chrono-proportional to replace the traditional On/Off method.