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Simple TRV solution with thermostat other side of the room?
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There's a room in my house thet gets too hot, even in cold weather if the sun is on large french windows and flat roof.
Reason is, the radiator has a modern TRV fitted. But its thermostat is built into the valve so the radiator is hunting for its localised temperature. Also not looking for a phone contrlled one where the thermostat is still in the TRV. What I'd like for this room is a thermostat in a suntrap part of the room controlling the radiator.
Can't find anything but expensive and complex hub based solutions online. Did see one TRV with a thermostat on a long wire but that's unacceptably messy. Any nice simple wireless solutions out there?
Reason is, the radiator has a modern TRV fitted. But its thermostat is built into the valve so the radiator is hunting for its localised temperature. Also not looking for a phone contrlled one where the thermostat is still in the TRV. What I'd like for this room is a thermostat in a suntrap part of the room controlling the radiator.
Can't find anything but expensive and complex hub based solutions online. Did see one TRV with a thermostat on a long wire but that's unacceptably messy. Any nice simple wireless solutions out there?
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You could close down the radiator’s other valve so that it’s only open a bit, which would slow everything down and give the existing TRV time to adjust without hunting. Would mean that the room takes longer to warm up though..0
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I'd go with the long wire, and find some creative way to hide it. Cordless things are inevitably unreliable, as there are now so many on the same frequency.0
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I was just thinking, someone should invent a TRV with an infrared sensor that measures the temperature of the rooms walls not that of the air inches from the rad itself.0
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Depending on the pipe layout, you may be able to fix a conventional TRV further along the pipe away from the radiator.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0
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Would this sort of thing do it - TRV with remote sensor https://www.myson.co.uk/products/remote_sensor_heads.htm (other makes are avaiable). Unfortunately most of them seem to have capillary tube sensors, i cant find one with a remote electronic sensor
You can also get TRV head with electronic sensors like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Radiator-Thermostat-Programmable-Thermostatic-x/dp/B01N35O95F (as before other makes are avaiable).
There doesn't appear to be anything on the market which consists of just a wireless TRV and wireless thermostat, most of them seem to require a wifi hub or similar which starts to ramp up the costsNever under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers0
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