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Heating thermostat and building regs ?

aligarjon

Hi guys, maybe slightly off topic.  I have been asked by a customer to relocate her heating thermostat in a new build.  I haven't seen it yet so don't know the full picture but she says it is located in her attic room and doesn't shut off when they want  because it doesn't get warm enough or the rest of the house stays on because it's colder up there, so i am presuming it's a 3 storey house.  It seems a bit odd to me on the face of it, especially as it's June.  i thought each floor should have its own zone and thermostat to comply with building regs, is that correct.  This is just a standard wet system with radiators.

 

 

Gary

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    Most old ladies living alone don’t heat the spare bedrooms and the other rooms they don’t use daily, they are of an age where you went to bed with a hot water bottle and lots of blankets and don’t always heat the bedroom they do use much.

    The reason the room stat was traditionally fitted in the hall that when the central heating was installed the open fire or gas fire was retained in the living room and if that was lit it knocked the central heating off. You don’t need a high temperature in the hallway so it’s not a good location for the stat, the mother in law is in a three story house and the boiler never shut down, it just kept cycling because all the heat from the hall radiator was lost into the upper floors.

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    Most old ladies living alone don’t heat the spare bedrooms and the other rooms they don’t use daily, they are of an age where you went to bed with a hot water bottle and lots of blankets and don’t always heat the bedroom they do use much.

    The reason the room stat was traditionally fitted in the hall that when the central heating was installed the open fire or gas fire was retained in the living room and if that was lit it knocked the central heating off. You don’t need a high temperature in the hallway so it’s not a good location for the stat, the mother in law is in a three story house and the boiler never shut down, it just kept cycling because all the heat from the hall radiator was lost into the upper floors.

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