Turning off radiators to heat one room?

windup

Biggles wrote: »

Not if the wall thermostat, which is in the same room, decides to keep the heating running throughout the rest of the house because the kitchen is cold!

A wall thermostat doesn't decide, the owner does - it won't happen if they follow the sensible advice, which is to adjust the wall thermostat (and timer/trv's) properly in order to achieve their aims, not set it at the temperature they want the whole house, or blindly follow what other people on the internet do

The op has trv's, a wall thermostat, and presumably a timer. there is enough control there to achieve what they want, which is to save money by heating fewer rooms

The wall thermostat and the you must get a wireless thermostat diversion is not helping. Everyone seems to have lost sight of the question.

PopeSock wrote: »

I've got gas central heating, and at times only need to heat one or two rooms. I've heard that the way to do this is to turn the radiators in the other rooms off.

I'm trying to save energy on heating, so would turning of all but the lounge radiator - eg putting the dial down to zero -work?

Cardew

windup wrote: »

The aim was to heat one or fewer rooms to save money, if they don't wish to heat the kitchen, or wish to maintain a lower temperature in there, that's totally upto them, and achievable with their current equipment

Whilst I agree with the thrust of your posts on this subject, the difficulty comes if they want to heat the kitchen(or any other room) but not heat their lounge(where wall thermostat and rad without TRV) are situated.


It is surely not uncommon for someone to spend most of the day in the kitchen/study/bedroom and not use the lounge until evening.

windup

It's not a difficulty because the open all the time valve can be turned off or down, and the wall thermostat set to on.

the op's question specified they wanted to turn everything off apart from one or two rooms, the most important of which was the lounge

the kitchen has the wall thermostat, the lounge is two floors above.

everyone's movements and requirements are different, I really don't see any issue. every radiator has a valve, some are trv's, some are not. There is a wall thermostat, there is a boiler thermostat, presumably there is a timer too.

So there is an abundance of adjustment there to suit every need, whether they change at different times of the day or not, if you want to warm up a cold room, because you expect to spend some time in there on a particular day, just open the valve and close it when finished (or use a fan heater). If you don't want to mess around with valves all the time, set rarely used rooms at low-medium on the trv

Biggles

windup wrote: »

The op has trv's, a wall thermostat, and presumably a timer. there is enough control there to achieve what they want, which is to save money by heating fewer rooms

I think the OP understands all that, but is seeking practical advice on how to achieve his aims.

Smiley_Dan

Well I suppose it depends how you define "practical" then!

The least effort is to purchase a more modern zoned system as suggested back on the first page.

PopeSock

windup wrote: »

what do you mean by leaving it low, the normal meaning would be a lower trv or thermostat value, and that is very definitely money saving

If you follow the advice about turning things up, your bill will be higher.

I turned the thermostat all the way down when I wasn't using it, and put it to 15 or 18 when I was using it.

What I meant about leaving things low was putting the radiator in the kitchen on 1, though the catch is that the thermostat is in there.

Zandoni wrote: »

The best and most economical way to use your central heating is this.

A thermostat (preferably wireless) in the main room usually the lounge. All radiators in the room with the thermostat should not have TRV's fitted.

This would be fine normally, as I'm mostly in the lounge in the house, except that in my house the thermostat is in the kitchen.

Smiley_Dan wrote: »

Well I suppose it depends how you define "practical" then!

The least effort is to purchase a more modern zoned system as suggested back on the first page.

I forgot to mention, it's a rental property, so there's no purchasing a zoned system, though I'll keep that in mind for when I buy a house.

Smiley_Dan

If you have no control over purchasing new heating controls then your only option is surely to have to manage this manually.