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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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    Friends have a large but well insulated home with gravity circulation and no controls of any kind.

    A wood stove with back boiler heats a single loop of large bore pipe that runs around the perimeter of the upper floor. No radiators, the pipe is the radiating surface.

    To increase heat add more logs and open wider the draught to the fire.

    Average heating demand in the winter is estimated at about 8 kw. No way to measure this but estimated from the log consumption. “Winter” is judged to be about 3,000 hours. Log consumption is about 7 tons per winter. Calorific value of dried logs estimated at about  4.5 kwh per kilo and stove efficiency at about 75%. No great accuracy may be claimed in view of the number of estimates and approximations involved.

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    Friends have a large but well insulated home with gravity circulation and no controls of any kind.

    A wood stove with back boiler heats a single loop of large bore pipe that runs around the perimeter of the upper floor. No radiators, the pipe is the radiating surface.

    To increase heat add more logs and open wider the draught to the fire.

    Average heating demand in the winter is estimated at about 8 kw. No way to measure this but estimated from the log consumption. “Winter” is judged to be about 3,000 hours. Log consumption is about 7 tons per winter. Calorific value of dried logs estimated at about  4.5 kwh per kilo and stove efficiency at about 75%. No great accuracy may be claimed in view of the number of estimates and approximations involved.

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