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The "old school approach",tried and tested,cheap,manual intervention required but if savings of £45 per month is achievable then worth a second consideration.
How big a job is it to implement multiple zones?
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TRVs have a use in a house also, but the installers needs to remove the blind he wears to provide controls that are effective
My preference is to instal good/ be it expensive, controls that do not need constant manual adjustment to achieve desired setting. Such a control system will emulate personal preference and run the boiler to that choice setting.
Having to adjust a TRV constantly to heat the room is akin to having a full function programmer but using it as on/ off switch. Further more, there is inherent temperature undershoot as well as overshoot that prompts the user to constantly manipulate the TRVs. Fully TRVed system, nil room thermostat means system not BC compliant. Central heating is there to preheat the area occupied, what is the point of getting out of a warm bed in the morning and then make ones way to selected radiators, set the TRV to desired point and then run the boiler to start heating.
Give me good controls that give be level of heat automatically as and when I need it.
My preference is to instal good/ be it expensive, controls that do not need constant manual adjustment to achieve desired setting. Such a control system will emulate personal preference and run the boiler to that choice setting.
Having to adjust a TRV constantly to heat the room is akin to having a full function programmer but using it as on/ off switch. Further more, there is inherent temperature undershoot as well as overshoot that prompts the user to constantly manipulate the TRVs. Fully TRVed system, nil room thermostat means system not BC compliant. Central heating is there to preheat the area occupied, what is the point of getting out of a warm bed in the morning and then make ones way to selected radiators, set the TRV to desired point and then run the boiler to start heating.
Give me good controls that give be level of heat automatically as and when I need it.
Manual TRV cannot shut down the system when desired temperature has been achieved
You can be as clever as you want to be, but ordinary TRV will not control the boiler
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Fitted the starter kit on a 25 year plus combi,which had no external controls.
Previously the summer/winter switch was used to control heating,the user set up the controls to his requirements and he states it has also ironed out the heating rapid cycling.
Dont know about any savings on gas consumption,to early to tell.
So they can be very useful.
Previously the summer/winter switch was used to control heating,the user set up the controls to his requirements and he states it has also ironed out the heating rapid cycling.
Dont know about any savings on gas consumption,to early to tell.
So they can be very useful.
Seriously?
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I thought he was just a grumpy old man, the Jeremy Clarkson of builders
He's certainly no expert.
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