Thermostat Settings

ZolaBuddy

Thanks for the replies, and especially to the amazingly detailed breakdown by @Bendy_House.
I have a work colleague at Sellafield, who is going to help me buy and install a wireless thermostat, as well as attempt to balance the radiators based on your advice.
Fortunately the weather is slowly improving, but it would be good to get room temperatures correct and the radiators/boiler working to their full potential in an efficient/economical way.
Thanks again

Bendy_House

You are welcome.

That will be a wireless Prog Stat? There are two obvious market leaders - Hive and Nest, both designed to be easy to use - but also others which seem to be well regarded too, such as 'Wiser' (I forget who make them), and I'm sure others too.

If you do NOT have a secondary source of heat in your sitting room, then that's the best place for the 'stat unit. With the weather much improving, you might not get the best tweaks done properly until winter time comes around again! But, as soon as the stat is move to a new location, the rads in THAT room should have their TRVs opened up fully/heads removed so they no longer control the rads. And the hallway TRV can be turned down to its required setting, probably just above '2'.

Then monitor how the system behaves, and carry out tweaks as necessary - you can always come back on here once the CH is being used in earnest again, and describe any issues; there will almost certainly be a 'simple' solution

FreeBear

Bendy_House said: - but also others which seem to be well regarded too, such as 'Wiser' (I forget who make them), and I'm sure others too.

Wiser is made by Drayton (part of the Schneider group) - https://wiser.draytoncontrols.co.uk/how-wiser-works

Reed_Richards

I have the Drayton Wiser; it seems fine except that I don't like the way that their programmable TRVs take precedence over their room thermostats.  I was put off by some other makes which claim to be self-teaching because I want to control the heating myself.

BUFF

Bendy_House said:

You are welcome.

That will be a wireless Prog Stat? There are two obvious market leaders - Hive and Nest, both designed to be easy to use - but also others which seem to be well regarded too, such as 'Wiser' (I forget who make them), and I'm sure others too.

Tado is also worth a look imo.