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The thermostat is set to a schedule to go off at 7pm and on at 7am.
The heat generated from 7am to 7pm is plenty for the night until it comes back on at 7am.
I am surprised at how many people keep their temps in the high 60s/70s at night!
I am in New Hampshire and when I am home and up the thermostat is kept on 68. The house feels very warm at that temp.
At night I turn the thermostat all the way down to 56. The second floor (where the bedrooms are) is probably a few degrees warmer due to heat rising. If I'm sleeping in the guest room, which I choose to do sometimes as it's much cozier than the huge master bedroom, I close the vent in that room, otherwise it gets WAY too hot. I have to sleep in a cold room.
I have to admit the downstairs feels cold at 56 when I come down after waking up, but it heats up pretty fast.
We live in SC currently. Our downstairs unit is a natural gas-fired furnace. Occupied it is set at 67 and unoccupied at 62. Our upstairs unit is a heat pump and I leave it at a constant 66 for the winter.
Your boiler wasnt set up to maintain a minimum and maximum water temperature? Unless your aqua stat was bad?
Firstly water can gravity feed if there is nothing preventing it from flowing, it's slow action but none the less it works. Just a quick tip here if you have a system zoned with pumps it might have a flo control valve on it that only allows the water to move in one direction. If your pump breaks you can open that up and it will gravity feed the system. If you have one these the lever on the top needs to be turned counter clockwise many turns to open it:
This system was zoned with valves though, a call for heat would open the valve and start the pump. Since it's a single pump system if another zone is calling for heat then you're pumping heat into both rooms if the valve is stuck open regardless of what the thermostat is calling for. The other zone was the entire house so it would run a long time and then even after it stopped running it's still gravity feeding.
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And how was it set last night? Does yours slowly raise the temp in the morning about an hour before you get up? For example mine has the option to either jump up a few degrees in ther morning using AUX or use a recovery mode to slowly raise the temp over a few hour period so not to use AUX.
Low 60's daytime, low 50's overnight - I HATE to be hot at night. (I do admit though that w/the cold wave we've been having, I've bumped daytime up to mid 60's sometimes)
Haven't turned on the heat yet.... nor the AC... one of the joys of living in SW FL in the "winter".
Now during the summer- AC is set at between 78 and 85.
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The other zone was the entire house so it would run a long time and then even after it stopped running it's still gravity feeding.
