central heating woes.....question.

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I live in a three storey house. Each rad has a trv thermostat. The wireless wall thermostat is on the middle landing. The upper 2 floors are lovely and warm. The ground floor is baltic all the time as the heating doesnt come on a lot down there as the boiler switches off as per the wall thermostat on the very warm middle landing. What can i do? Disable the wall thermostat? Please help.......the ground floor houses our kitchen and dining room.
 
Close down the TRV'S on the rads so the rooms upstairs don't warm up so quick and the hot water will get diverted to the lower floor with the TRV'S fully open.
 
Heat the lower floors instead of the upper ones. The heat will rise to the upper floors all by itself
 
If you mean priority then yes, when the heat gets to it yes it will switch off but the heat will carry on rising to the upper floors before dissipating.
 
Rebalance the system using the outlet valves on the radiators to make sure the heat is evenly distributed.
 
stick the wireless thermostat in the rooms you want to be warmest and used most, ie lounge, dining room etc. Or just move it into the cold room(s) downstairs, turn down TRV on upstairs rooms.
 
Slam62 said:
Rebalance the system using the outlet valves on the radiators to make sure the heat is evenly distributed.
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This.

Close the upstairs lockshields (not the Tvr) all the way and open them only a quarter. Do the same for middle floor (perhaps a little more open but not much) leave ground wide open.

Remember do this to the lockshield not the trv.
 
You don't need to balance systems with TRVs. They will balance themselves if set to correct temperatures (ie not 5 on all of them)

Op do the downstairs rads even get hot ?
 
Simon said:
You don't need to balance systems with TRVs. They will balance themselves if set to correct temperatures (ie not 5 on all of them)

Op do the downstairs rads even get hot ?
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You should still balances them mate, you don't have to be bang on with trvs obviously but it does help the heat distribution throughout the system.
 
koolpc said:
On the subject of heating, is a condensing boiler really worth installing?
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Yeah but most of the time they do not work ad condensing boilers. The return has to be below 52deg for the boiler to work in condensing mode and ideally lower. Most people just crank the heat dial up to full which negates the condensing part. But they are a bit more efficient compared to an old unit usually.
 
on a side note. I am not a big fan of these wireless thermostats.

I have one in a new 3 bed semi. I set it to 19*c and then it can cut of when it get to within +/-5*c of that temp. but sometimes it will go way up and beyond what the wireless thermostat is set at.

I don't know if it is because sometimes i have the thermostat in the lounge and that is further away from the boiler as seems to work fine when in the master bedroom ( next to small bedroom with boiler in) but then that room is warm but the lounge is not that warm.


Any ideas? could i leave wireless thermostat in master bedroom and turn the TRV down on the master bedroom rad? allowing lounge to get warmer before cut off. I would have thought Wireless thermostats have a good range UNLESS something downstairs is affecting the signal.



Also where IS the best place for a thermostat ideally.
 
Hmm. If the middle landing is warm and that is where the thermostat is it means the heating is never on long enough to heat the ground floor. If i disable this thermostat is the problem not solved?
 
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