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[mollayo]

About how much is the monthly gas bill for a Kiturami ondol heater in winter? Do these also run on electricity? I'm so confused.

[mollayo]

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[chris_J2]

If you have floor panels only for heating, save yourself some coin & buy a space heater from Homeplus / Lotte Market. My heating bill went from 15,000 won in September 2007, to 380,000 + in January 2008, using floor panels.

[Yaya]

Watch out for electric heaters, the electric bill can skyrocket if you depend on the electric heaters too much. I remember paying more than 300,000 won just for electricity one winter, and that didn't include the 150,000 won I paid for gas.

[semphoon]

Hello there,

Left house for 4 days and used the 외출 mode (which is supposed to keep minimum temprature I believe). Came back and now there is no hot water or ondol. The wall until says that there is a problem with 연소 (combustion).

Any of you wise folk have any advice?

[Reggie]

The last time I was in Korea, I didn't turn on the heat all winter and the pipes didn't freeze or burst. This time, I'm more concerned since the boiler and washing machine are in a closet with a ton of windows.

My question is for people on here who don't care how cold their apartment gets as long as the pipes don't freeze or burst. What do you do as the bare minimum, but just enough to have peace of mind about the pipes?

[Swampfox10mm]

I believe most ondol have a setting for exactly that case, keeping it just warm enough so that the pipes don't freeze in the actual ondol system. I'd set it at 15 and leave it on there if you don't want to run the heat more than just keeping it from freezing.

[Reggie]

Awesome. Thanks Swampfox10mm.

[m0tbaillie]

Question folks. I have a Kiturami boiler system in my villa.

Currently, the thermostat it uses is a CTR-5000 (which look almost identical to the CTR-1500 found here: http://www.krb.co.kr/english/products/products_view_m9s2.php)

HOWEVER, it flakes out from time to time (resets, heat randomly trips off, and the timer function doesn't work - even my Korean girlfriend has fiddled with it). I was wondering if it was possible to simply buy and replace the thermostat? I asked my girlfriend and she said her father told her I would have to buy an entirely new boiler (!!), which I'm thinking maybe something was lost in translation between her and him, because the boiler was recently replaced by the thermostat is old.

I'd prefer a digital one with programmable functions.. I don't mind paying 50 bucks or whatever it's gonna run me, I just wasn't sure if it would be a trivial replacement or a PITA... any thoughts?

[sketchforsummer]

I just got a new job and a new thermostat came with it. I had no problem getting hot water, but can't work out which button is for the floor heat. Help gratefully received!

http://i48.tinypic.com/34qlnk6.jpg

[PatrickGHBusan]

That pic is a bit fuzzy. The korean letters on the buttons are not really clear.

Perhaps a better pic would get you more responses?

[Lazio]

[lauramoro]

I've been using my ondol for the last couple weeks and i seem to have figured it out after tryig everything. But what worries me is that my water heater is ver loud like it is working overtime, i havent reeived a bill et so that is one concern..but it is also noisy to the point of annouing and i dont think it should be blowing as much ateam as it does. However my floor and water heats up no problem-im scared something is going to blow or my bill will be $$$. My school managment do not speak english so it is very difficult to ask a simple question like this. Anyone have this problem with their ondol?