central heating

[jb123]

I recently ask about where to position my roomstat as my upstairs was colder than down stairs, which never happend before with my old system, which did not have a roomstat. I have now fitted the roomstat which is wireless in the hall. I have changed the valve in the lounge to trv instead of the open locked valve.
The valve in the hall is a trv which i have turned down to setting 1 this now seems to have even the temperatures upstairs to down stairs .at the moment this seems to work ok ,but i have been told a trv valve should not be fitted where the roomstat is fitted any ideas thanks

 

[doitall]

Don't worry about it if it works.

 

[assured heating]

T he room that has the roomstat in it should not have a trv on the radiator because they will work against each other either keeping youre heating on to long or switching it off efore the house has warmed up!
Just take the trv head off the valve that will sort it

 

[bengasman]

You will get a nice gasbill, you have effectively shorted your roomstat, so the boiler works as if you had only a timer and no roomstat.

 

[londonboy]

The way I read it JB123 has balanced the radiator (using the trv) and has found the best place to fit the roomstat to evenly heat the house.

Unless of course he has set that radiator so low it doesnt heat at all.

 

[bengasman]

...Unless of course he has set that radiator so low it doesnt heat at all.

Unless the settings on his trv are 0.2 0.4 0.6 etc, in stead of 1 to 5, that is exactly what he did.