Heating tips

Le_Petit_Lapin · 9 Jan 2009 at 14:00

Tips?

Don't put sand in your oil tank.

Goksly · 9 Jan 2009 at 14:13

Watch out they can be right gits. Folks are with NPower. Original bill was £45 a month but it got up'ed to £110 a month. Obviously they weren't happy - phoned up and after ages haggling, got it cut to £90 a month. 2 months later they have changed it to £43 because excessive money was being paid. Wtf...

5punk3monk3y · 9 Jan 2009 at 14:32

[DOD]Asprilla;13243218 said:
If you've got v****ble thermostatic valves on you radiators I don't see why you have a thermostat as well. Having both is pointless and possibly counterproductive.

building regs require it but as you said it is pointless

the trick is to take the head off the TRV in the room with the roomstat in it

to the OP get one of these you will save a fortune http://www.honeywelluk.com/product.aspx?r=ws&p=2448 about £90 quid + vat

it also comes with a night set back mode which will reduce the temp overnight for you as stated earlier in this thread

also a standard programmer that turns on and off in blocks wastes gas because the boiler never senses room temps efficently even with a roomstat as the programmer overides the stat where as a programmable roomstat as linked above never actually turns the boiler off so to speak. Instead it only turns the boiler on when required ( generally to heat up the house by 1deg ) which is a lot more efficent that the old mechanical programmers

St0rmer66 · 9 Jan 2009 at 14:47

5punk3monk3y said:
building regs require it but as you said it is pointless

the trick is to take the head off the TRV in the room with the roomstat in it

to the OP get one of these you will save a fortune http://www.honeywelluk.com/product.aspx?r=ws&p=2448 about £90 quid + vat

it also comes with a night set back mode which will reduce the temp overnight for you as stated earlier in this thread

also a standard programmer that turns on and off in blocks wastes gas because the boiler never senses room temps efficently even with a roomstat as the programmer overides the stat where as a programmable roomstat as linked above never actually turns the boiler off so to speak. Instead it only turns the boiler on when required ( generally to heat up the house by 1deg ) which is a lot more efficent that the old mechanical programmers

I'm pretty sure the building regulations state that you must have "at least 2 temperature controlled zones". A TRV in a room counts as one of these, so as long as you have at least 2 rooms with TRV's you are meeting the regulations. I could be wrong, but I'm sure that's how it's worded (and many people assume that it means you HAVE to have a room thermostat).

In any case, you shouldn't have a TRV in the room with a room thermostat anyway

. So taking the head off it would be one way of solving that potential problem.

5punk3monk3y · 9 Jan 2009 at 14:58

St0rmer66 said:
I'm pretty sure the building regulations state that you must have "at least 2 temperature controlled zones". A TRV in a room counts as one of these, so as long as you have at least 2 rooms with TRV's you are meeting the regulations. I could be wrong, but I'm sure that's how it's worded (and many people assume that it means you HAVE to have a room thermostat).

In any case, you shouldn't have a TRV in the room with a room thermostat anyway . So taking the head off it would be one way of solving that potential problem.

no mate all rads need TRV's and all properties now need room stats ( new dwellings from 01 )

existing dwellings - its an option BUT it is recomended the TRV's be fitted in bedrooms and that a thermostat be fitted in the property also (if your going to drop the system just to fit bedroom TRV's then put them on all rads )