A public view · for householders
What does a year of heating look like?
A heating bill is one number for the whole year. The year itself is more particular. Below is a typical year for five typical homes, worked 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 modelled 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. Swipe across to see the whole year.
54
days the heating never comes on
17
days in the longest unbroken summer break
What this view shows, and what it does not
- Each ribbon is a typical example of its type, worked through the published method. It is not any real home, and not a measurement of one.
- The weather year is the method's standard London year, so the shape is a southern English year; a colder place heats longer, and your own year will differ.
- Real homes spread far wider than five typical examples. Across the 107,336 real Nottingham homes in the city view, the median modelled heating year is 3,592 hours and one home in ten runs past 5,175. A typical example is a starting point, not your home's figure.
See your home's 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. Leave a postcode and we will send back your home's year.