Its becoming a struggle.

Had hoped that the afternoon sun and light breeze would provide a decent internal warming day in the critical 2.30pm to 4.30pm period. Sadly it didn't.

By 3pm it had turned hazy and by 4.30pm it was largely cloudy. As a result it limped up to 19.4c from a noon temperature of 18.7c. The cooker came on at 4.30pm and by 6pm after the roast had cooked it briefly topped out at 20.3c. This sort of warmth is not sustainable, it burns gas and money and soon leaks away. Currently 19.5c and on the way down.

A cool week in store. Any afternoon sunshine and brief warming will no doubt soon be lost with a run of single figure minimum temperatures and a fair ole breeze early in the week.

It would be nice to get to October without using the central heating. With such a cool week for late September its doubtful. It will get switched on for an hour boost if the early evening maximum temperature of 18c (64f) is not achieved. At this rate it's looking like Tuesday.

19 up and 17 down this morning - it's not been a cold night, but the wind has done its usual trick of wicking the heat away. (Shame it's seldom as windy in summer!)

17.1 C

18.3c at 6.30am this morning. It will probably be sub 19c when I get home later.

18 up and 16 down this morning, right on the threshold for heating to come on (it's set to 16C). I suspect tonight will see the first time the heating comes on this autumn.

15.3 but it'll soon warm up when the sun rises. Still enough solar hot water for showers and washing up

17.3c this morning at 7am rising to 17.9c at 08.30 as I left the house, the kids had gone to school and my wife had headed off to work. 20c is out of reach now, a brief peak of 19.1c early yesterday evening after we had eaten dinner and washed up.

Its getting close to the central heating getting its first burst of use since 5th May. 

...and we have ignition! 🔥

15.5 down, 16.4 up when I came in from work just now. The heating's set to 16, but only if there's someone in the house - so as soon as I came in, on it went.

12.6 outside and a high of just 13.9, the coldest max since the 3rd May (13.8).

It's the first proper central heating usage of the autumn.

I feel an achievement having lasted longer than you 

The builders tried to  connect our fancy thermostat back up today. Doesn't work.  No idea why.  So further delays to having any heating.  The thing costs about £200 (we got as part of new boiler) as well as being smart/WIFI , tells you the outside temp on the screen too (either via a sensor that you can stick on your house, or using local data, we went for the local data which is quite accurate wherever it comes from , the sensor needed wiring in and would have been on the patio in sunshine) to help work out how hard to heat your home. But to break after 2 years is rather annoying.    Should have gone for a simple old school thing! 

Hah! It's already gone off (didn't take long to raise half a degree), but I suspect it'll be on again overnight - it's the first day in months that indoor temperatures have fallen during the day, even with a little sunshine.

As for the smart thermostats - I had a nose around when mine was being installed last year (there's a law that says with a new boiler you have to have one of a few options, I went for the thermostat option). There were a surprising number of cables needing to be hooked up and the boiler company ended up subcontracting it out to an electrician (who wanted to run a fused spur, but eventually put a "plug top" on it instead).

It's unlucky that yours should have broken, all I can think of is that maybe it's not been wired in correctly? Most boilers have a manual override, but it's not ideal...

As Phil Collins once sang ' one more night'.

Hanging on by a thread here. (or holding off by a thread)...

A peak of 18.0c at 6pm after the cooking of the evening meal. 17.9c now. A 30 minute burst of sunshine through those west facing windows at 4pm just enough to prevent the big switch on.

The self imposed 'ignition trigger' did not occur today as 18c was achieved, even if it was for 15 minutes.

I reckon we'll be in the 16's tomorrow morning.  No amount of afternoon sunshine will prevent turning it on tomorrow.

I am hoping it's wiring , perhaps the wire into the boiler has become dislodged , managed to move my boiler service to tomorrow so hopefully it can be sorted.  I was told there is no manual override on mine, but with some complex command the boiler can go into service mode which gives 10 mins of heat but that is it.  

16.5c this morning, the lowest so far this season. The household is a hive of activity between 7-8am before everyone heads off to work and school. With hoodies and jumpers on the chilliness isn't noticeable. The heating remains off. (for now).

33.5 In the lounge. Will turn the heating off now.

 Good idea! It got down to 14.6°C last night so the heat came on for a bit this morning but not needed now as it is a pleasant 17.6°C cureently.

We have ignition too.

The 6pm high of just 17.1c (hallway) was justification to switch the central heating on. Only few an hour mind. ;)

That hour boost has sent the temperature to 17.9c in the hallway with a general 18c to 18.5c elsewhere around the house.

A toasty 20.2c in the living room.

Similar sort of temps in our house earlier. 17.5c in the upstairs landing, and 16.9c in the kitchen. I love these zesty, refreshing temps, but others in the house do not. 

. My lot have been really tolerant of it all. I'm surprised because by now we would have had the heating on for weeks with the thermostat set to 21c. It's surprising how we acclimatise actually. 

22.5c. The thermostat fixed temp.

16.5c in the hallway with the rest of the house varying between 16.5c and 17.8c this morning. 

Another 1 hour boost this evening is planned.