Electric Heating Systems

The amount of wasted energy throughout every home is enormous. Without realising it, you're wasting energy and therefore money by all sorts of methods. Whether it's leaving a television on standby, or having poor insulation throughout the home, everything adds up to an amount which over the course of the month, or even a year, would be very noticeable and beneficial not only in terms of saving money, but also in terms of saving energy. One important, yet often overlooked area, is the way in which your heating works in the home.

While having a highly efficient boiler and heating system in your home is great, it's worthless without heating controls providing some intelligence between when the heating is turned on or off, and what temperature it should be running at. Having a hugely efficient boiler running on it's own for twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, will be wasting a huge amount of money. Therefore it's a good idea to invest in a heating control system, allowing you to specify when the boiler turns on and off - it's of no use to have the boiler heating your home if you're not around to see the benefits. If you're at work, the boiler can switch off, and then switch back on again just in time for when you get home.

You can also have heating controls to work depending on temperature, thus turning your boiler on only when you really need it. Once the temperature dips to a certain level, the heating controls will turn on the boiler once more, to heat up the house. The boiler would then turn off once the home reaches an appropriate temperature. As soon as the temperature drops off again, the boiler starts up, and so it goes on.
Ultimately both methods save you energy, and both will save you money, even with the investment of purchasing a boiler heating control panel to begin with.