With a little know-how people are tuning their home heating to reduce their gas consumption.
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"It's been running for about eight months now and it works perfectly," says Paul Pschierer-Barnfather, who built and installed the device himself. "I should have done this years ago." "When I started turning the boiler down, it probably cut the gas consumption by about 10%," says Mr Pschierer-Barnfather.
"My little sensor system, I could probably put it together for about a tenner," he says. Via Twitter, he's found several people who are willing to try prototypes of his device, which he says he might go on to produce for sale.
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