Thermostat

matelodave

Petriix said:

I'm pretty happy with my Netatmo thermostat. I initially bought it 5 years ago in a rented property but took it with me when I moved. The app and web based control and statistics are really useful.

You can set an away mode and specify your return time and the house will be up to temperature for that time. My favourite feature is being able to limit the length of any manual boost period: if someone cranks up the thermostat, by default it reverts to the programmed temperature after 1 hour (or whatever you specify.

It was a simple DIY installation.

I reckon £150 for a a bit of a toy is a lot of money and I guess it would take more than a few years to recover the cost in energy savings.  The physical installation is no different to installing a Programmable Thermostat.which also reverts back to the programmed temperature after someone has a fiddle.
I'm not really convince of the benefit of spending another £100 except that you can show off the app on your phone when you are down the pub.
I'm a real gadget freak and a smart thermostat is probably pretty close to the last thing I'd squander my money on - just my opinion you understand

Starcity83

macman said:

Heating in a rental property is not an optional extra, and should have some way of controlling it properly.
What else has your LL skimped on? Do you have a GSC, EPC, EICR, How to Rent booklet, deposit protected? Absence of any of these means that the tenancy is unregularised.

The property is managed by an estate agent so I got all necessary documents. I was told that a thermostat wasn’t essential as I do technically have heating. 

Starcity83

Nearlyold said:

Starcity83 said:

macman said:

Why are you paying to install a programmer in a rented property: it's the job of your LL to do this. Every CH system should at least have a basic room 'stat. 

I’ve read that if the radiators have certain valves on then they don’t have to provide a thermostat?. I’ve only been in the flat two weeks and the landlady doesn’t want to do anything. I asked for a plug installing as there was no where for me to plug the washer in. The electrician came and said he would do they but had to consult the landlady, she told him to cut off the plug and make a small hole in the counter top. So my new washer had the moulded plug taken off and replaced with a generic one.

It is sort of possible to have no room stat and just rely on Thermostatic Valves on the radiators to shut off them off when the target temperature controlled by the valve is reached - combined with the boiler stat cutting the heat when the water goes above a certain set temperature. Its usual to leave one radiator with no Thermostatic valve fitted (to act as a bypass) and/or have a pressure adjustable bypass valve fitted. 
Do your radiators have any Thermostatic valves?

Yes all the radiators have thermostatic valves apart from the bathroom which is strangely warm considering I don’t have the heating on. 

Petriix

matelodave said:

Petriix said:

I'm pretty happy with my Netatmo thermostat. I initially bought it 5 years ago in a rented property but took it with me when I moved. The app and web based control and statistics are really useful.

You can set an away mode and specify your return time and the house will be up to temperature for that time. My favourite feature is being able to limit the length of any manual boost period: if someone cranks up the thermostat, by default it reverts to the programmed temperature after 1 hour (or whatever you specify.

It was a simple DIY installation.

I reckon £150 for a a bit of a toy is a lot of money and I guess it would take more than a few years to recover the cost in energy savings.  The physical installation is no different to installing a Programmable Thermostat.which also reverts back to the programmed temperature after someone has a fiddle.
I'm not really convince of the benefit of spending another £100 except that you can show off the app on your phone when you are down the pub.
I'm a real gadget freak and a smart thermostat is probably pretty close to the last thing I'd squander my money on - just my opinion you understand

It was £130, but yes, around £100 more than a programmable regular thermostat. It's hard to quantify how much it has saved me (if anything) because, feasibly, I could have manually achieved a similar level of control without it; apart from the occasional time I've been able to remotely turn the heating off when out. However, the convenience is more than worth the cost. It's a paradigm shift to be able to control the heating from wherever you are rather than having to go to the thermostat.