Boiler - no thermostat

danlewi2

phill99 wrote: »

Your landlord is under no obligation to provide a thermostat.


he has to provide means of space heating and hot water. How its controlled is not his issue. So don't get to hung up on this.

never said they were obligated - even if we pay for it ourselves we still need approval to have it fitted.

AdrianC

A room 'stat is a fairly blunt instrument. It simply turns the whole heating on or off when that one room meets the temp requirement.


Do you have thermostatic rad valves? If so, they're actually better - as well as being easier to fit - they turn each rad on or off individually when the room they're in is up to temp, so you can control by room instead of the whole property. One radiator (usually a bathroom towel rail) should not be thermostatically controlled, so that you don't get the situation where the boiler's trying to pump but nothing's open, so there's no flow.


Without any thermostatic control, the heating will simply be on the whole time the timer says "on" - but you can, of course, manually over-ride that timer to turn it off when you're too warm.


Remember, the boiler won't usually be burning the whole time the heating's on. If the return flow hasn't lost much temp, then the burner won't ignite.

pinkshoes

Thrugelmir wrote: »

How efficient is the boilier though?

35 year old cars still run if maintained properly.

The boiler isn't as efficient as a modern one but works perfectly well.

Older ones were built much better so we would rather not scrap it!

TrickyDicky101

pinkshoes wrote: »

The boiler isn't as efficient as a modern one but works perfectly well.

Older ones were built much better so we would rather not scrap it!

My mother's boiler was fitted in 1978 and is still going strong. It may be inefficient but the cost of a new boiler would blow away any savings she might make on gas costs.