We had horrible winters last year moved to the new house, found it gets cold very quickly and still end up paying very high gas bills. I've to sort this out fully before winter and according to my research I think I’ve to do following:
1) Insulate Loft: because I noticed upstairs gets cold before downstairs (will cover this in a separate thread)
2) Control Heating
It's a worcester (i think its greenstar 24Ri) boiler fitted couple of years ago located in the kitchen with two tanks in the loft and cylinder in the airing cupboard. There's no display on the boiler it has just a knob to control burner I believe and there's no temperature marks on it. Old style manual programmer is in the airing cupboard upstairs where you can set just two durations to turn on the heating which works for both hot water and heating which is very annoying.
All i need is a room thermostat to control temperature so that we don't have to worry about turning the heater on/off and also the programmer where i can program heating/hot water separately with multiple durations.
I'm thinking to get a digital programmer with thermostat in it to be fit in the airing cupboard, i believe this would do everything or do I’ve to get separate programmer and separate thermostat to this job? Also is it a big job or any plumber can do it?
Many Thanks
Faraz
1) Insulate Loft: because I noticed upstairs gets cold before downstairs (will cover this in a separate thread)
2) Control Heating
It's a worcester (i think its greenstar 24Ri) boiler fitted couple of years ago located in the kitchen with two tanks in the loft and cylinder in the airing cupboard. There's no display on the boiler it has just a knob to control burner I believe and there's no temperature marks on it. Old style manual programmer is in the airing cupboard upstairs where you can set just two durations to turn on the heating which works for both hot water and heating which is very annoying.
All i need is a room thermostat to control temperature so that we don't have to worry about turning the heater on/off and also the programmer where i can program heating/hot water separately with multiple durations.
I'm thinking to get a digital programmer with thermostat in it to be fit in the airing cupboard, i believe this would do everything or do I’ve to get separate programmer and separate thermostat to this job? Also is it a big job or any plumber can do it?
Many Thanks
Faraz