Hi, I moved to a house recently where it is installed with city heating system. As I understand from past records, the original house had only radiators that were fed by a thermostat-controlled heat exhanger with a pump to circulate hot water. One of the previous tenants installed under-floor heating which has its own pump. However this has no thermostat on its own (or at least I couldn't see one). Also this doesn't get water directly from the city heating water inlet. Instead it gets hot water only from the original heat exchanger which already supplies to radiators. Therefore I have two following problems:
1. The floor heating pump is only manually controlled - "I" have to turn it on or off. If I forget to turn off, it runs round the clock.
2. Even if I leave the floor heating pump on for long, it is also possible that it has been only circulating cold water under the floor, if the thermostat the controls heat exchanger was set at temperature less than room temperature.
Here are my questions:
1. Is it a usual (or one of the usual) way(s) how an under floor heating system is added to existing radiator heating system?
2. Is it okay, to leave the under floor heating pump to stay on throughout winter? I can certainly understand it is a continuous wear to the pump. But may be it is possible that these pumps are designed considering such usage?
3. Do I need to check anything closer because my description of the heating system seems illogical to you? May be the floor heating pump is also controlled by the thermostat but I am not checking that correctly?
4. Assuming the problem I described so far is correct, do you think there are some easy-yet-clean fixes I can try?
TIA
1. The floor heating pump is only manually controlled - "I" have to turn it on or off. If I forget to turn off, it runs round the clock.
2. Even if I leave the floor heating pump on for long, it is also possible that it has been only circulating cold water under the floor, if the thermostat the controls heat exchanger was set at temperature less than room temperature.
Here are my questions:
1. Is it a usual (or one of the usual) way(s) how an under floor heating system is added to existing radiator heating system?
2. Is it okay, to leave the under floor heating pump to stay on throughout winter? I can certainly understand it is a continuous wear to the pump. But may be it is possible that these pumps are designed considering such usage?
3. Do I need to check anything closer because my description of the heating system seems illogical to you? May be the floor heating pump is also controlled by the thermostat but I am not checking that correctly?
4. Assuming the problem I described so far is correct, do you think there are some easy-yet-clean fixes I can try?
TIA