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This is a bit long winded but need to describe before asking my question..sorry
Had central heating fitted as I had electric heaters before. I have a very small one bed house the whole of downstairs is open-planned i.e. galley kitchen into front room with stairs. Downstairs has one radiator. The room thermostat is placed towards the top of the stairs on a wall just below the railings for the landing. Directly in front of the bathroom. I have a small radiator on the landing, towel rail in the bathroom and a radiator in the bedroom, this one has a temperature value on it.
I have Potterton Performa 30 HE combi-boiler
Honeywell T6360B1028 Room Thermostat fitted.
Timeswitch is a Siemans RWB7
My problem is that downstairs doesn't get warm, upstairs gets v. warm, so the boiler stays on constantly, which isn't ideal as its going to be costing me a fortune in gas.
The room stat doesn't automatically come on when the temperature drops below or turns off once its above the temperature. Where the room stat is situation there is cold air coming across the carpet on the landing directly across the thermostat, which could be the reason it doesn't turn off but not the reason for it turning on. I woke up one morning expecting the heating to be on (timer) when I realised I forgot to click it on to 20 (it was on 19), so it didn't come on, when I looked at my thermometer it was 16.5°.
Could it be the case that the room stat is not in the right place? I just want to be able to have the heating on and kept at a regular heat without the boiler on constantly, I'm using the room stat as a on/off switch to regulate it. It means I can never go out without turning the heating off first.
I hope someone has a solution.
This is a bit long winded but need to describe before asking my question..sorry
Had central heating fitted as I had electric heaters before. I have a very small one bed house the whole of downstairs is open-planned i.e. galley kitchen into front room with stairs. Downstairs has one radiator. The room thermostat is placed towards the top of the stairs on a wall just below the railings for the landing. Directly in front of the bathroom. I have a small radiator on the landing, towel rail in the bathroom and a radiator in the bedroom, this one has a temperature value on it.
I have Potterton Performa 30 HE combi-boiler
Honeywell T6360B1028 Room Thermostat fitted.
Timeswitch is a Siemans RWB7
My problem is that downstairs doesn't get warm, upstairs gets v. warm, so the boiler stays on constantly, which isn't ideal as its going to be costing me a fortune in gas.
The room stat doesn't automatically come on when the temperature drops below or turns off once its above the temperature. Where the room stat is situation there is cold air coming across the carpet on the landing directly across the thermostat, which could be the reason it doesn't turn off but not the reason for it turning on. I woke up one morning expecting the heating to be on (timer) when I realised I forgot to click it on to 20 (it was on 19), so it didn't come on, when I looked at my thermometer it was 16.5°.
Could it be the case that the room stat is not in the right place? I just want to be able to have the heating on and kept at a regular heat without the boiler on constantly, I'm using the room stat as a on/off switch to regulate it. It means I can never go out without turning the heating off first.
I hope someone has a solution.