Pancake Posted 27 January, 2016 Share Posted 27 January, 2016 Right, due to me being a lazy git I've never sorted out the thermostat and controller on our boiler after it was fitted. It still has the crappy mechanical timer (big wheel with little clicky bits to say when it comes on) and we never had a thermostat fitted in the house (so heating is on or off on the boiler, only control is the temp on that). Anyone here itk in the plumbing game who can spell out my options? What I would really like is a electronic timer on the boiler (pretty sure you just pop the old one off and it's a simple plug in connector) and some sort of wireless thermo we can move round the house and maybe control via an app or some other funky modern shizzle. Cheers in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 27 January, 2016 Share Posted 27 January, 2016 you have it in a nutshell except that a replacement plug in programmer might not fit the hole, depends on how old the boiler is perhaps? You really dont need a programmer though, if you get a programmable room stat, wireless options available, then that controls your heating requirements and obviously the hot water is heated only when required anyway. So forget about a programmer, there really is no need. If you want the Hive or similar remote options then of course that is going to cost you more. Worth thinking about TRV's on your rads too perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 27 January, 2016 Share Posted 27 January, 2016 Why not just get radiator thermostats fitted? You can control temperature in every room then, cheap too. http://www.screwfix.com/p/honeywell-traditional-white-chrome-trv-15mm-angled-lockshield/9449h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 27 January, 2016 Author Share Posted 27 January, 2016 you have it in a nutshell except that a replacement plug in programmer might not fit the hole, depends on how old the boiler is perhaps? You really dont need a programmer though, if you get a programmable room stat, wireless options available, then that controls your heating requirements and obviously the hot water is heated only when required anyway. So forget about a programmer, there really is no need. If you want the Hive or similar remote options then of course that is going to cost you more. Worth thinking about TRV's on your rads too perhaps? Cheers Noods. Might have been my stupidity but I assumed you would need a new fancy programmer to work with a fancy moveable thermo. Not the case? How does it come with the boiler then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 27 January, 2016 Author Share Posted 27 January, 2016 Why not just get radiator thermostats fitted? You can control temperature in every room then, cheap too. http://www.screwfix.com/p/honeywell-traditional-white-chrome-trv-15mm-angled-lockshield/9449h Have them on some but the ay team others are connected (in line not f&r iirc what the builder said) and putting them on would cause the ones further along the line to stop if one at the start closed off? Make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 27 January, 2016 Share Posted 27 January, 2016 Why not just get radiator thermostats fitted? You can control temperature in every room then, cheap too. http://www.screwfix.com/p/honeywell-traditional-white-chrome-trv-15mm-angled-lockshield/9449h because thats not good practise. You would usually fit or place the stat in the hallway for example, therefore you have a good temperature to gauge and leave that rad open (which acts as a bypass too). If you just install trv's and no main stat, theoretically you are going to have different rads coming on at different times, unless you go back to the programmer route. At the end of the day, you would not see a new or renewal installation fitted without a room stat of some sort, which suggests that just fitting trv's is not right. By the way, you can cheaper options than the Shi tefix option above, if you want a price etc. (only on materials) let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 27 January, 2016 Share Posted 27 January, 2016 Have them on some but the ay team others are connected (in line not f&r iirc what the builder said) and putting them on would cause the ones further along the line to stop if one at the start closed off? Make sense? er, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 27 January, 2016 Author Share Posted 27 January, 2016 er, no. Ha, that's why I'm not a plumber. [emoji106] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted 30 January, 2016 Share Posted 30 January, 2016 Do you have a room thermostat? If so you can just swap that out for a digital programmable room thermostat. If you haven't then you need the on boiler programmer. Ideal do one for most of their range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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