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*Snot a joke: my sister's last house had two separate boilers for some odd reason. I suspect it may have been divided into flats at some time or other.
We actually already have two boilers One is a combi / water heater that takes care of the kitchen and utility and third toilet/ shower room. Then we have an old school money chomping behemoth that does the central heating and two more bathrooms
Mine has this ingenious temperature controlled switch, meaning I don't have to worry about switching it on at the start of autumn, it just stays on all year and does nothing when it's warm.
It's technically on but only to make sure the towels are warm and dry in the morning - windows are all still open and the summer duvet is definitely still the right choice.
The rate of energy loss is proportional to the temperature. Ergo, you are losing (and therefore replacing) more energy when the tank is hot than when it cools right down and you bring it up to the same temperature again.
Though I doubt the tank is part of your central heating system, the same principle applies to the rooms in your house.
WDS.
In theory yes, if you had a perfectly insulated house, but you don't and so you are constantly replacing the heat that's being lost from your house to the outside via the walls, roof, doors, windows etc
To prove it to yourself you could try taking a meter reading, keeping your heating on for a week then taking a reading and then do the same with your boiler timer settings (assuming weather remains approximately constant)?
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