Alex321
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Central Heating - on yet?
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briantrumpet
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Because they stop letting their mothers buy their underwear?
Alex321
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That isn't a reason.
I've just ordered a load of loft insulation. Had some plumbing done which necessitated pulling the old insulation out in an area of the loft and it was just a couple of inches of manky grey itchy stuff. I'm planning on gradually working my way through the whole loft ( moving the boxes the kids left " temporarily " a few decades ago ).
Had a leak from a cracked roof tile recently and have just installed a Shelly water detector which also monitors the temperature. This set me off on a winter project and I now have wireless thermometers in all the bedrooms plus the kitchen and living room. The thermometers were only about £9 each, have a large display and keep a record of high / low plus humidity. These app is pretty good too, it gathered and graphs all the data over time and the info from the individual thermometers are visible on one screen.
Had a leak from a cracked roof tile recently and have just installed a Shelly water detector which also monitors the temperature. This set me off on a winter project and I now have wireless thermometers in all the bedrooms plus the kitchen and living room. The thermometers were only about £9 each, have a large display and keep a record of high / low plus humidity. These app is pretty good too, it gathered and graphs all the data over time and the info from the individual thermometers are visible on one screen.
Have you a link please?
mjr
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And rather than fix that problem with multiple thermostats and a decent controller, UK residents keep beggaring about with timers and doing what didn't work properly last year. 🤦
Oh well, it's not like heating costs hundreds of pounds a year(!)
briantrumpet
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That network of thermometers with app is really cool.
For some reason Amazon doesn't have a link that I can find in the app. They are " Govee " brand. I also have the miniature bluetooth version without a screen. That originally lived in the hedgehog house but I repurposed it when the new fridge freezer was getting too cold and freezing the lettuce and cucumber in the chill draw. I wrapped it in cling film and moved it between shelves and compartments over a period of several days so I could compare the display in the fridge to the true temperature.
Cheers chap. I was actually looking at those ones.
Alex321
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If we were having the heating system replaced completely, then we would get a different control system, as you suggest.
It really isn't worth the hassle and cost of doing so on an existing system IMO. We have thermostatic valves on the radiators, which allows us to control the heat in each room separately. I don't know what you mean by "doing what didn't work properly last year"? It worked just fine for us last year, and I expect it to this year.
We also have a non-condesning boiler, with a hot water storage tank in the airing cupboard, but with solar panels, that means we can turn off the boiler completely from around April - September, with the hot water coming from an immersion heater powered by excess solar. We turned the hot water back on last week, I don't expect to be wanting the heating on for a few weeks yet. I'm still comfortable sleeping with just the duvet cover, we tend to put the heating on around the same time I start wanting a duvet inside the cover, which is usually late October.
I had a Netatmo wireless thermostat, but that died a death after 3-4 years - I have replaced it with a Tado thermostat, that connects a controller to the boiler via wires (Just replaces an existing wired thermostat - and we did ourselves) and then you have a separate part that connects into your router, or a repeater in your house - you then connect this to your wireless, and hook it up to the app.
The thermostat is wireless, so we can move it to wherever we want - ie if we have the stove on in the main living room, we might move it into a different room, so the rest of the house doesn't become like a fridge.
I have mine set pretty simply, especially now with working at home, but you can set them up as complicated as you want iirc, but the interface is pretty good.
I think weekdays are all the same, weekends the heating just stays on a bit later, and drops to something like 18 overnight iirc.
I can also bump the thermostat temp up or down for a set period of time, or until the next schedule change - from anywhere via the app.
The other bonus is that you can drill down into any day, and it will show you a 24 hour graph, and within that graph you can see what the temperature was at any given time, and then also if the boiler was on, whether it was at power level 1, 2 or 3 - it's pretty good at throttling off the power as it approaches the desired temperature.
I think it gives you a summary for how long the boiler has been on for a given day, week, month etc etc,
The thermostat is wireless, so we can move it to wherever we want - ie if we have the stove on in the main living room, we might move it into a different room, so the rest of the house doesn't become like a fridge.
I have mine set pretty simply, especially now with working at home, but you can set them up as complicated as you want iirc, but the interface is pretty good.
I think weekdays are all the same, weekends the heating just stays on a bit later, and drops to something like 18 overnight iirc.
I can also bump the thermostat temp up or down for a set period of time, or until the next schedule change - from anywhere via the app.
The other bonus is that you can drill down into any day, and it will show you a 24 hour graph, and within that graph you can see what the temperature was at any given time, and then also if the boiler was on, whether it was at power level 1, 2 or 3 - it's pretty good at throttling off the power as it approaches the desired temperature.
I think it gives you a summary for how long the boiler has been on for a given day, week, month etc etc,
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presta
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A roomstat's required by building regulations, or at least it was when I had my new boiler in 2017.
Mo1959
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I’ve still got storage heating so it’s very expensive. I’ll try and hold off putting it on until at least next month.
I sometimes put the dehumidifier on and it keeps the air warmer.
I sometimes put the dehumidifier on and it keeps the air warmer.
Alex321
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- South Wales
So far as I can see, the requirement is for either room thermostats, or TRVs (Thermostatic Radiator Valves). Though the recommendation is to have both.
