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The advantage of putting a programmable thermostat in each zone is that they don’t actually turn the heating off, they turn it up and down .


So during the “off” periods a minimum temperature is maintained stopping homes and their plumbing from freezing; and more importantly protecting occupiers from hypothermia should they have a fall or some other problem.


You will get customers saying they just want to be able to turn the heating off, but actually in reality few of them actually want their homes to cool down to the set back temperature.


Some years ago I did electrical work for a central heating company, they supplied delay start programmable thermostats to dome of the customers and I ended up going back and replacing them, not because there was a problem with the equipment, but because people don’t understand how they are using their own heating systems or how their heating systems work.


Basically you end up trying to educate the customers and find yourself struggling to get past their ignorance and misconceptions. If at the end of the day they end up leaving the timers set to constant and turning the temperature up and down, so be it.


When I was doing work for a housing association contractor I was paid to do several call outs because tenants had reported that the economy seven heaters and immersion heaters did not work, just to depend time explaining how to use them, I ended up being an unofficial life skills tutor. But I got paid ?


 Andy B.

The advantage of putting a programmable thermostat in each zone is that they don’t actually turn the heating off, they turn it up and down .


So during the “off” periods a minimum temperature is maintained stopping homes and their plumbing from freezing; and more importantly protecting occupiers from hypothermia should they have a fall or some other problem.


You will get customers saying they just want to be able to turn the heating off, but actually in reality few of them actually want their homes to cool down to the set back temperature.


Some years ago I did electrical work for a central heating company, they supplied delay start programmable thermostats to dome of the customers and I ended up going back and replacing them, not because there was a problem with the equipment, but because people don’t understand how they are using their own heating systems or how their heating systems work.


Basically you end up trying to educate the customers and find yourself struggling to get past their ignorance and misconceptions. If at the end of the day they end up leaving the timers set to constant and turning the temperature up and down, so be it.


When I was doing work for a housing association contractor I was paid to do several call outs because tenants had reported that the economy seven heaters and immersion heaters did not work, just to depend time explaining how to use them, I ended up being an unofficial life skills tutor. But I got paid ?


 Andy B.