ᐅ Do you turn off the heating completely while on vacation?

Hi,

a quick question. What do you usually do when you are away on a longer vacation? Do you turn off the heating completely? I’m mainly asking in terms of hot water supply. At this time of year, the heating is usually off anyway. But the hot water system keeps running, whether it’s powered by a heat pump, gas, or solely solar. The pumps keep running, which seems pointless when no one is home. And heating water for nobody... I don’t see the reason.

So my question is: what do you do when you go on vacation?

Every modern heating system with a reasonably good control has a vacation mode....

That definitely helps a lot to answer the question for those who don’t have a reasonable regulation, and even less so for the original poster.

@raffa
I always leave it on as it is.
I’m not sure if it’s necessary, but I can afford those few cents for now.

We do too. However, we lower the temperature by a few degrees. That would probably be the manual mode 😉

Best regards, Yvonne

@meister keks

Are you referring to the 10% with old systems without controllers from way back?

The vacation mode is exactly designed for the case the original poster mentioned, so in my opinion, that answers the question... and those who didn’t know about this feature might start using it now...

Who knows, maybe I have such a device.
Next time, I will think of you and look for a vacation mode in the control panel.