Boiler/Radiator Thermostat

Tiber

I have recently had a Worcester Greenstar combi boiler installed and although the instruction manual tells me to set the central heating control on the boiler to "the maximum rated temperature of the central heating system" - not that I have the faintest idea what that is - and then set each of the individual thermostatic radiator valves as required, the engineer who installed it said that I should just turn each radiator thermostat to maximum.

That doesn't seem quite right to me and I would think that the manufacturer's instructions are the one's I should follow. However, as I know sod all about heating systems I could be totally wrong.

Can anybody on this forum tell me what settings I should be using? I have a six room flat with high ceilings. The boiler is in the kitchen and the radiator in the bathroom is the one without a thermostat. All the other radiators have a thermostat on them and can be turned from "1" to "6".

The boiler has a dial on it that ranges from a snowflake (!), then "1" to "6" and then to "Max".

There is no room thermostat.

At the moment I have the radiator thermostat in the sitting room set at "max" and all the other rooms at about "3".

The boiler thermostat I have set to "5", although I have no idea what actual temperature this relates to.

Also, why are thermostats built into radiators? Surely the radiators are always going to be the warmest place in any room and therefore not the best place to have your thermostat. I don't want the heat going off when the radiator's warm, I want it going off when the whole room is warm.

Hopefully somebody will enlighten me.

Thanks.

aelitaman

Set the boiler to what ever temp you want 1 to 5. The higher the number the hotter the water the quicker the rooms will heat up from cold. Snowflake is the frost setting for when the boiler is not in use but installed outside and there is likely to be minus temps, the boiler will keep the water in it above freezing to ensure no damage is done to the bolier (useful for when people go on hols)

Use the TRV's (thermostatic Radiator Valve) to set each room to the temp that you want. It does not matter where they are in the room or near the radiator because if the TRV turns the radiator off before the warm is at the correct temp just turn the TRV up and vice a versa if the room gets to hot.

Canucklehead

Tiber wrote: »

I have recently had a Worcester Greenstar combi boiler installed and although the instruction manual tells me to set the central heating control on the boiler to "the maximum rated temperature of the central heating system" - not that I have the faintest idea what that is - and then set each of the individual thermostatic radiator valves as required, the engineer who installed it said that I should just turn each radiator thermostat to maximum.

That doesn't seem quite right to me and I would think that the manufacturer's instructions are the one's I should follow. However, as I know sod all about heating systems I could be totally wrong.

Can anybody on this forum tell me what settings I should be using? I have a six room flat with high ceilings. The boiler is in the kitchen and the radiator in the bathroom is the one without a thermostat. All the other radiators have a thermostat on them and can be turned from "1" to "6".

The boiler has a dial on it that ranges from a snowflake (!), then "1" to "6" and then to "Max".

There is no room thermostat.

At the moment I have the radiator thermostat in the sitting room set at "max" and all the other rooms at about "3".

The boiler thermostat I have set to "5", although I have no idea what actual temperature this relates to.

Also, why are thermostats built into radiators? Surely the radiators are always going to be the warmest place in any room and therefore not the best place to have your thermostat. I don't want the heat going off when the radiator's warm, I want it going off when the whole room is warm.

Hopefully somebody will enlighten me.

Thanks.

Good evening: see advice here

Canucklehead