DIY Project To Zone My House

[Richard at Home]

Good evening and a happy new year to you all

I welcome any comments and feedback to my project I am looking at starting in 2013

now I know all this sort of thing can be done with many of the costly out of the box solutions that probably cost more than the boiler itself

What I am looking at doing is to create a heating system that has at least 3 Zones

I believe I could do this with some changes to the main Pipe work and 3 motorised zone valves and an additional time clock


Reason for project

During the day one member of my family is at home and requires heating to be on for 4 rads in part of the house.

Currently I am heating all the house all day when only part of the house needs to be heated

My daughter-in-law is also at home some times when not at Uni and may need her front room heating.

Now my logic is to have the secondary time clock switching the water flow between parts of the house during the day and in the evenings opening all valves to heat the complete house

Now I know this could also be done with the new wireless digital TVRs but this expense would be significant


I will add to this post as the project develops

If you have any questions or would like to bounce ideas or comments please reply and this may become an interesting post.


Thank you for your time

Best regards

Richard

 

[TBServices]

Hahahaha. This thread just gets better. Should be a easy job for someone of your calibre Richard.

 

[Howsie]

Why in my leaking taps would you want to do that?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

over complicating it for the sake of doing it imho

 

[Howsie]

Putting people lives at risk unnecessarily by the sound of it.

 

[TBServices]

I don't even see how monitoring the boiler stat would be at all beneficial.

In this case the only thing it will tell you is that you've piped and wired your system up wrong and are producing excessive amounts of heat.

 

[AWheating]

the boiler will require interlock for all zones, to work correctly, meet the building regulations and be efficient. Also dont forget your auto bypass if you didnt plan for one.

good luck and please keep in mind that any work on the boiler that breaks into the combustion chain will need a competent person, this is likey to include the removal of its case.

It may be an idea to involve a Heating Engineer for advise but you seem confident you can get it done. Let us know how it works out.

 

[R1CKY]

I think some of you are being a bit harsh on the OP!

Good luck OP, but I'd seriously think about each zone having a stat and timer, if you are going to go through all of this cost and effort, it'd make sense to have time AND temperature control on the zones.

 

[Howsie]

Well it was said many times but the advice ignored.

 

[smhstu]

Why not just turn the rads off that you don't want to heat with the valves on the rads, then turn them back on?

 

[Howsie]

Doesn't involve unnecessary fiddling and the EBUS.

 

[SimonG]

Why not just turn the rads off that you don't want to heat with the valves on the rads, then turn them back on?

Too simple, even tho effective.

 

[Dannyparty92]

Well this is the best Wednesday night iv had in a long time! This thread and Tyrone fiddling with boilers on coronation street! What a night!

 

[Richard at Home]

Hi all hope you all keeping well.

 

[AWheating]

Well this is the best Wednesday night iv had in a long time! This thread and Tyrone fiddling with boilers on coronation street! What a night!

fiddlling with boilers, hes not been sleeping with that fiz again??

 

[Richard at Home]

Turning the rads off and on manually is ok if your at home but when you have 19 its a bit of a pain

 

[dancinplumba]

fiddlling with boilers, hes not been sleeping with that fiz again??

is she not dead ? thats necrophillia isnt it ?

 

[dancinplumba]

Hi all hope you all keeping well.

welcome along

 

[Howsie]

Turning the rads off and on manually is ok if your at home but when you have 19 its a bit of a pain

Can't you hire someone?

 

[Dannyparty92]

No not dead but she could of died due to unqualified soap actors fiddling with the flue. So don't ever attempt any gasworks please please get a gas safe engineer in! .

 

[Dannyparty92]

Richard you seem like a smart bloke can't you design and build a Robot to go turn TRVs off at allocated times programmed into the robots inbuilt time clock?

 

[Dotty]

And do not. Under any circumstances. Any at all. Attempt to connect into your boiler to remotely control the boiler temp. This is your last line of defence before the limit stat.

Professional BEMS companies know this is not to be tampered with. Take the hint.

 

[dancinplumba]

Richard you seem like a smart bloke can't you design and build a Robot to go turn TRVs off at allocated times programmed into the robots inbuilt time clock?

wheres robert gone ?

 

[Richard at Home]

well i could install Programmable Thermostatic Radiator Valve Digital TRV on all the rads as these can all be programmed by day to switch each rad on and off each day

But i think this would have a number of disadvantages

1 it will deliver exactly the same result as my project but done at each radiator
2. you have to buy them all
3 set them all
4 change the batterys ever 6 to 12 months

My project will do exactly the same but will use 2 to 3 motor valves to isolate a bank of specific radiators

No batterys or programming loads of TVRs

Had a look at the pipe work tonight and i believe i will need about 50M of 22mm plastic speed fit barrier pipe about £90

 

[Howsie]

And a mouse

 

[Richard at Home]

We have no plan to control any aspects of the Boiler

This is done with the Valiant time clock and VR65 Control Unit

Thanks

Richard