Smart heating controls are thermostat controls which can allow you to control and customise your heating demands remotely from your smart phone, tablet, computer or manually.

A smart heating control aims to save energy by increasing and decreasing the temperature as quickly as possible. Smart thermostats try to avoid going above the target temperature by learning how your home heats up, so that the boiler switches off at just the right moment.

Benefits of smart heating controls:

• They are straight forward and convenient to use and can be controlled when out of the house
• You can set the thermostat so it knows when you are on holiday, pausing your normal schedules and automatically resumes when you return home
• The Smart heating can be personalised to suit you and others living in your property by setting a different schedule every day to suit and can be done easily from apps such as Hive and Nest
• You can turn up your heating when its extra cold without even having to leave your bed
• Some smart heating controls have Geolocation alerts and can recognise when you are home, or when you are on your way home so it knows to turn the heating on

The exact savings will be different from home to home but according to data gathered from Tado customers the average energy saving in the UK is 19%. The average annual gas bills in the UK is £572, which could mean savings of around £110 a year. According to Nest, one of the leading smart heating control companies, its UK customers saved between 8.4% - 16.5%

For more information on smart controls, feel free to contact one of our friendly staff today for any advice.