Chief123
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25 is too high mate. You’ll be getting smashed on gas usage cost.On this, if I were to put my thermostat at say 20 degrees rather than 24, would the radiators still get warm and would I feel any impact? Aware that this comes across as a very stupid question but I have always just turned it up to say 24/25 degrees for the heating to be 'on' and then turned it off once the house is warm enough.
Around 21 degrees is comfortable. However, the way it works is your thermostat will normally have a thermometer inside it which is used to measure the temperature in that particular room. If you’ve set it to 21 and it falls below that, then the central heating will come on and switch off automatically to maintain a temp of 21.
The key thing is placing the thermometer in a sensible location. If you put it it in a really cold room which isn’t the average temperature of your house, then it’s going to think your whole house is freezing and remain on until that room gets warmed up.
The whole point of the thermostat is to control your heating coming on and off when needed to maintain a set temperature. If you put it to a temp that it never can get to, then that’s the same as just putting the central heating to “on” manually regardless of temp.