A live view · for householders
When does your heating actually run?
A heating bill is one number for the whole year. The year itself is more particular. Below is a typical year for five kinds of British home, simulated hour by hour under the published national method: 8,760 hours, marked wherever the heating runs. Pick the home most like yours and look at the shape of it.
In a typical year, this home's heating runs for
2,098 hours
24% of the 8,760 hours in the year
Each column is one day, midnight at the top. A blue mark is an hour with the heating running.
54
days the heating never comes on
17
days in the longest unbroken summer break
A real home has its own shape
These five are typical homes, and yours is not. Any real home can be read the same way, hour by hour, from public data, before anyone visits. If you look after many homes, the shapes tell you which ones run long, which barely run at all, and which deserve a closer look first. Nothing is needed from you to start.
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