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How to save gas using your central heating boiler.

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hi welcome everyone so today we're
00:00:05.059 00:00:05.069 looking at what if you were condensing
00:00:07.670 00:00:07.680 central heating boilers and that's quite
00:00:09.470 00:00:09.480 a lot of us these days because after
00:00:11.680 00:00:11.690 2007 it's kind of mandatory to have a
00:00:15.010 00:00:15.020 condensing boiler so this is for both
00:00:19.040 00:00:19.050 come bees and floor-standing boom
00:00:22.310 00:00:22.320 mounted F&E system boilers you've back
00:00:26.540 00:00:26.550 in that covered again with boiler first
00:00:28.910 00:00:28.920 that so the other day or music follow me
00:00:31.490 00:00:31.500 know that I did a video employers and
00:00:34.130 00:00:34.140 what tempted to set the boiler out now
00:00:36.709 00:00:36.719 me are set mine flat out but I want to
00:00:39.560 00:00:39.570 have to be reminded by one of my
00:00:41.299 00:00:41.309 subscribers thank you Apache you know
00:00:43.639 00:00:43.649 you are who said you know you're kind of
00:00:46.220 00:00:46.230 forgetting that condensing boilers I'll
00:00:48.229 00:00:48.239 make that way to try and save you money
00:00:50.450 00:00:50.460 on your beyond and you're certainly not
00:00:52.310 00:00:52.320 going to probably do that by running it
00:00:53.869 00:00:53.879 flat out so he is right I had forgotten
00:00:56.420 00:00:56.430 about is so awful actually yeah we
00:00:59.240 00:00:59.250 better bring mister for so I'm gonna go
00:01:01.490 00:01:01.500 through this now what a condensing
00:01:03.500 00:01:03.510 boilers gotta be set fairly accurately
00:01:05.359 00:01:05.369 if you want to save money most people
00:01:08.960 00:01:08.970 know that the normal setting for boilers
00:01:10.789 00:01:10.799 is usually 70 degrees for eating and 60
00:01:15.230 00:01:15.240 for hot water but as you can see that
00:01:17.960 00:01:17.970 white boil it isn't there's no numbers
00:01:19.910 00:01:19.920 there's no 70 or 60 or anything else
00:01:21.980 00:01:21.990 just a a doll I mean I must admit I've
00:01:24.710 00:01:24.720 got a eco set in there Andy which is
00:01:27.380 00:01:27.390 sort of for mine to be set there and
00:01:29.810 00:01:29.820 that should give me the right
00:01:31.370 00:01:31.380 temperature what I say but the thing is
00:01:33.740 00:01:33.750 there's lots of variables coming you
00:01:35.960 00:01:35.970 could have an underpowered boiler you
00:01:37.850 00:01:37.860 could have an overpowered boiler you
00:01:39.469 00:01:39.479 could have added radiators you look at
00:01:41.569 00:01:41.579 some away which all means that this
00:01:44.780 00:01:44.790 temperature gauge you don't quite know
00:01:46.999 00:01:47.009 where the proper setting is to get the
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00:01:52.130 00:01:52.140 so let's look at a condensing action
00:01:53.690 00:01:53.700 again first and what it means basically
00:01:56.749 00:01:56.759 the condensing is using flow heat
00:02:00.999 00:02:01.009 condensing down and reusing that to kind
00:02:04.670 00:02:04.680 of save you money on your heating cost
00:02:06.889 00:02:06.899 you're kind of using the flue gas heat
00:02:09.260 00:02:09.270 and it comes into a little pot and
00:02:11.090 00:02:11.100 container runs away down a condensing
00:02:13.010 00:02:13.020 pipe but the action of that is to really
00:02:15.290 00:02:15.300 improve the performance of your boiler
00:02:17.660 00:02:17.670 now to do that improvement the actual
00:02:21.260 00:02:21.270 boiler pipes the return pipe that goes
00:02:24.200 00:02:24.210 round your centrally and you have a flow
00:02:26.180 00:02:26.190 goes off ran their ads you have a return
00:02:28.370 00:02:28.380 pipe come back and that return pipe has
00:02:31.040 00:02:31.050 to meet and I do a temperature that
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00:02:37.460 00:02:37.470 54 or below it's not working so well at
00:02:40.100 00:02:40.110 all and if it goes above 55 56 max then
00:02:44.390 00:02:44.400 you're not getting any benefit from your
00:02:46.850 00:02:46.860 condensing boiler hence the saving you
00:02:49.070 00:02:49.080 thought you were getting you're not
00:02:50.690 00:02:50.700 getting so how can we act we kind of
00:02:53.360 00:02:53.370 measure this return temperature well for
00:02:55.550 00:02:55.560 something very simple and I'm going to
00:02:57.020 00:02:57.030 show you it now this is it yes it's a
00:03:00.350 00:03:00.360 little strap-on pipe thermometer you can
00:03:04.070 00:03:04.080 see what a pipe fits on the back this
00:03:06.050 00:03:06.060 what was spring fits around the back
00:03:07.520 00:03:07.530 what are we gonna do I'm going to attach
00:03:10.160 00:03:10.170 this to the return pipe on my boiler
00:03:13.040 00:03:13.050 then finally we can see when we get
00:03:15.920 00:03:15.930 actually somewhere close to the 55
00:03:18.350 00:03:18.360 degrees I'm not saying it will be dead
00:03:20.060 00:03:20.070 dead accurate but you little get a
00:03:21.920 00:03:21.930 better idea of where you are from that
00:03:24.650 00:03:24.660 return temperature so that your boiler
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00:03:30.350 00:03:30.360 this thing costs about four quid or so
00:03:32.390 00:03:32.400 on Amazon I'll give you a link on
00:03:34.880 00:03:34.890 description if you want one they're
00:03:36.650 00:03:36.660 cheap as anything and I think it's good
00:03:39.080 00:03:39.090 you know why you've saved you a lot of
00:03:40.700 00:03:40.710 money so I'm going to strap this to my
00:03:42.110 00:03:42.120 return now we'll see in action there
00:03:44.960 00:03:44.970 then we have our thermometer on the
00:03:46.910 00:03:46.920 return pipe they're strapped on nicely
00:03:49.210 00:03:49.220 how'd you know those the return pipe
00:03:51.530 00:03:51.540 about pipes in there yes there is true
00:03:54.290 00:03:54.300 usually is the one if he could have
00:03:56.360 00:03:56.370 feeling lube attached it goes into also
00:03:59.060 00:03:59.070 the floating we has a gauge or net
00:04:01.670 00:04:01.680 pressure gauge which is good up there
00:04:03.020 00:04:03.030 and and usually as well if you read it's
00:04:07.220 00:04:07.230 about getting it right is that there
00:04:09.590 00:04:09.600 will be two pipes obviously the flow and
00:04:11.570 00:04:11.580 return if you want to find out which one
00:04:13.400 00:04:13.410 is which you could wait to the boilers
00:04:15.500 00:04:15.510 cold turn the heating on and the one
00:04:18.349 00:04:18.359 that gets hot first and be the flow pipe
00:04:20.630 00:04:20.640 the return will be the cool one
00:04:22.820 00:04:22.830 always ease so you know straight away
00:04:24.770 00:04:24.780 that that one is the return as it is
00:04:28.129 00:04:28.139 online sometimes are even written on the
00:04:30.679 00:04:30.689 top of the boiler underneath there which
00:04:32.689 00:04:32.699 one is flow return etc and you can see
00:04:35.749 00:04:35.759 music - 22 mil hype there's one out of
00:04:39.409 00:04:39.419 twenty two mil part this one here which
00:04:41.179 00:04:41.189 is the condensing pipe that I was on
00:04:43.339 00:04:43.349 about earlier in the video that takes
00:04:45.020 00:04:45.030 the condensing water away to a drain
00:04:48.429 00:04:48.439 right so we switched the boiler on I'll
00:04:51.260 00:04:51.270 set it flat out again just cuz I wanna
00:04:53.450 00:04:53.460 get it really going up there get some
00:04:55.070 00:04:55.080 heat up there and we'll see what the
00:04:57.140 00:04:57.150 gauge turns to so I have to thank Apache
00:04:59.930 00:04:59.940 for this little tip really because I've
00:05:02.119 00:05:02.129 forgotten all about it the whole point
00:05:03.830 00:05:03.840 of convey was with the condensing thing
00:05:07.070 00:05:07.080 is to save you money so once I get out
00:05:09.980 00:05:09.990 the heat I'm gonna see whether this is
00:05:11.990 00:05:12.000 sitting on me sitting for me is around
00:05:14.420 00:05:14.430 about right for the temperature to reach
00:05:17.269 00:05:17.279 255 the magic number so really what you
00:05:21.409 00:05:21.419 do with this thing then is you're gonna
00:05:23.360 00:05:23.370 try different things to see what's the
00:05:26.059 00:05:26.069 best for our boiler in our house in our
00:05:27.980 00:05:27.990 situation with the way our exiling
00:05:30.200 00:05:30.210 darted up exactly what we're trying to
00:05:32.689 00:05:32.699 do here is eat might not actually be
00:05:34.939 00:05:34.949 right for me because I might have a lot
00:05:37.519 00:05:37.529 more Reds on here might be drawing more
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00:05:41.119 00:05:41.129 actually it might be here somewhere a
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00:05:45.709 00:05:45.719 it may be down a little bit more fall I
00:05:47.990 00:05:48.000 know who well I dunno that's probably
00:05:49.879 00:05:49.889 the 70 degrees that he's recommended by
00:05:52.999 00:05:53.009 most boiler manufactures say he'll this
00:05:55.040 00:05:55.050 give you a rough guide but to actually
00:05:56.959 00:05:56.969 get that 55 degrees to get a magma
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00:06:02.529 00:06:02.539 depending on what you've got how many
00:06:04.999 00:06:05.009 radios you've got a stretched your
00:06:06.649 00:06:06.659 system is or over powered boiler might
00:06:09.050 00:06:09.060 be this is not entirely accurate and
00:06:13.089 00:06:13.099 anyway I can possibly see of trying to
00:06:16.010 00:06:16.020 get some accuracy he's by putting a
00:06:18.469 00:06:18.479 thermostat on that return pipe and
00:06:20.659 00:06:20.669 seeing what the temperature means when
00:06:22.189 00:06:22.199 it goes back in the boil and seeing
00:06:23.890 00:06:23.900 it's actually at the point that Creek
00:06:26.439 00:06:26.449 Jill I said yeah
00:06:28.390 00:06:28.400 there's anything happening now so right
00:06:31.570 00:06:31.580 why I've decided as it's going to take
00:06:33.760 00:06:33.770 some time messing around trying to get
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00:06:36.969 00:06:36.979 I'll call it a day there cuz it's gonna
00:06:39.100 00:06:39.110 be very a video fuse to mess around with
00:06:41.710 00:06:41.720 and play with your stat they're getting
00:06:43.840 00:06:43.850 it right and getting attempt to set
00:06:45.430 00:06:45.440 right I'm pretty certain I'm gonna need
00:06:47.409 00:06:47.419 to Pollak reading about the middle here
00:06:48.909 00:06:48.919 somewhere but it's going to need a
00:06:50.529 00:06:50.539 couple of weeks of running and getting
00:06:53.020 00:06:53.030 it exactly where you want to say snow
00:06:55.900 00:06:55.910 think that could be able to do straight
00:06:57.100 00:06:57.110 away you're gonna delete it go let it
00:06:59.290 00:06:59.300 count bag and keep running it over a
00:07:01.060 00:07:01.070 couple of weeks so rather than wait for
00:07:02.890 00:07:02.900 is to go up there now I'm gonna give it
00:07:04.600 00:07:04.610 a test of time in a couple of weeks and
00:07:06.370 00:07:06.380 then I'll get back to you and I'll show
00:07:07.960 00:07:07.970 you exactly will be wearing my doll I'll
00:07:10.330 00:07:10.340 ended up to get that magic 55 decrease
00:07:14.189 00:07:14.199 okay so it's just a little tip usual
00:07:17.230 00:07:17.240 place for my stuff you know where to go
00:07:18.640 00:07:18.650 so thanks very much for watching guys
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