In this paper, we describe patterns of residential heating based on data from 255 homes in and around Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, spanning August 2016 to June 2018. We describe: (i) the room temperatures achieved, (ii) the diurnal durations of heating use, and (iii) common diurnal patterns of heating behaviour. We investigate how these factors vary between weekdays and weekends, over the course of the year, by external temperature, and by room type. We compare these empirical findings with the simplifying assumptions about heating patterns found in the UK’s Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP), a widely-used building energy performance model. There are areas of concurrence and others of substantial difference with these model assumptions. Indoor achieved temperatures are substantially lower than SAP assumptions. The duration and timings of heating use vary substantially between homes and along lines of season and outdoor temperature, whereas the SAP model assumes no such variation. Little variation is found along the lines of weekday vs. weekend, whereas the SAP model assumes differences, or between living space and other rooms, consistent with the SAP. The results are relevant for those interested in how SAP assumptions regarding household heating behaviours and achieved indoor temperatures concur with empirical data.

在本文中，我们根据 2016 年 8 月至 2018 年 6 月英国苏格兰爱丁堡及其周边地区 255 个家庭的数据描述了住宅供暖模式。我们描述了：(i) 达到的室温，(ii)加热使用，以及 (iii) 加热行为的常见昼夜模式。我们调查了这些因素如何在工作日和周末之间、一年中、外部温度和房间类型之间发生变化。我们将这些实证结果与英国标准评估程序 (SAP)（一种广泛使用的建筑能源性能模型）中关于加热模式的简化假设进行了比较。这些模型假设存在一致的领域和其他实质性差异。室内达到的温度大大低于 SAP 假设。供暖使用的持续时间和时间因家庭而异，并且随着季节和室外温度的变化而变化，而 SAP 模型假设没有这种变化。在工作日与周末之间几乎没有发现差异，而 SAP 模型假设存在差异，或者生活空间和其他房间之间存在差异，与 SAP 一致。这些结果与那些对 SAP 关于家庭供暖行为和实现的室内温度的假设如何与经验数据一致的人感兴趣。