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One control for electric heating?

Hi, I'm currently renovating a house, with no gas. It's 1 bedroom, 1 reception, kitchen, bathroom & porch.

I have:- Elec radiator in living room & bedroom, towel radiator in bathroom, underfloor heating in kitchen (and a wood burner in the living room).

I've seen individual thermostats & timers that can be used on each heater, but is there any kind of system that controls all electric heaters from one control unit? It's not really a problem setting timers on each, but it'd be much nicer just doing it on one!

Thanks in advance.

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  • basill
    basill Posts: 1,422 Forumite
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    edited 14 November 2016 at 10:00AM
    I am all electric as well. After seeing a demonstration setup I have been looking at Lightwaverf.
    Once you have bought the control hub you just add a wireless thermostat, switches for each heater and control them from an app.
    Once the heating is sorted you can add lighting controllers and remote controlled wall sockets and automate everything :-)

    All the parts are available at Amazon.

    B
  • Thanks! That looks pretty good. Not cheap though, from what I can see for each electric radiator you'd need an £80 switch, plus the master hub at £90.

    So for my 1 bed house it'd be nearly £500 just to control it... before thinking about lights, sockets etc.

    I'm not overly fussed about wifi control, just being able to have 1 timer to control 5 heaters would be preferable.

    I appreciate your post though, thank you!
  • Kiran
    Kiran Posts: 1,554 Forumite
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    Are all the heaters on the same circuit? If so can you not run them on a din rail timer in the consumer unit?


    http://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/categories/timers-din-rail-mounted-timers


    Before certain people chime in, this should be installed by a qualified spark!
    Some people don't exaggerate........... They just remember big!
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