Mobile Room Thermostat?

[Daljit]

Hi

I have a baby in the flat and find her room is colder than the hall, where the thermostat is situated. We keep doors closed at night, and despite lowering the TRV in the hall, there is still a noticeable difference walking into her bedroom. [flat is a listed building ie nice to look at, but freezing to live in]

So am thinking about buying a radio-controlled thermostat which i can move from the hall (during the day) to the baby's bedroom at night. Can anyone recommend something that will do the job?

thanks

Daljit

 

[I am bonkers]

Hi

I have a baby in the flat and find her room is colder than the hall, where the thermostat is situated. We keep doors closed at night, and despite lowering the TRV in the hall, there is still a noticeable difference walking into her bedroom. [flat is a listed building ie nice to look at, but freezing to live in]

So am thinking about buying a radio-controlled thermostat which i can move from the hall (during the day) to the baby's bedroom at night. Can anyone recommend something that will do the job?

thanks

Daljit

[DLMURL]http://www.tfc-group.co.uk/assets/graphics/static/STT%20RF.pdf[/DLMURL]

 

[migoplumber]

try first raising the temp on the the thermostat, to say 25 degrees, and toning down the trv's in other rooms.

 

[WHPES]

Failing that, the Honeywell CM927 would do your job.

 

[I am bonkers]

try first raising the temp on the the thermostat, to say 25 degrees, and toning down the trv's in other rooms.

Dangerously hot if the baby's room got to that temperature. Bad practice having TVR where the wall thermostat is located.

 

[geoff2ey]

Hi Daljit:

I think you could first check that all is OK with your CH system so try the following:
Ensure system switched on and wall programmer set for CH at the time you test it.
Turn off the rad in the hall with the TRV and let the boiler run until all other radiators are hot.
Give it a while to stabilise the temperature in the bedroom and rest of accommodation.
If bedroom does not get warm enough you don't have a thermostat problem you need more heat. If the bedroom rad is hot all over then it is just too small for the room. Otherwise the rad is blocked / airlocked / or system needs a clean out to make it work better. Bigger rad is a solution if all else fails and you have spare boiler capacity or can turn off a radiator somewhere else to compensate. Call a CH engineer to come and advise you. Rad and/or system may be undersized especially with outside corner bedrooms and single glazing.
Just a thought, if the system is a bit undersized, in cold weather you might have to leave it on all the time, otherwise the boiler never "catches up" during its "on" period if starting with a freezing house.

All the best

Hi

I have a baby in the flat and find her room is colder than the hall, where the thermostat is situated. We keep doors closed at night, and despite lowering the TRV in the hall, there is still a noticeable difference walking into her bedroom. [flat is a listed building ie nice to look at, but freezing to live in]

So am thinking about buying a radio-controlled thermostat which i can move from the hall (during the day) to the baby's bedroom at night. Can anyone recommend something that will do the job?

thanks

Daljit

 

[migoplumber]

cant see how 25 degree's is dangerously hot for a baby, then again i dont have one so wouldnt know, my water bed is set at 30 degrees and i sleep very well in it.

i agree trv next to thermostat is bad practice, however if OP's set is incorrect to start with buying a radio controlled jobby wont improve things. that was the point i was trying to get across.

 

[I am bonkers]

cant see how 25 degree's is dangerously hot for a baby, then again i dont have one so wouldnt know, my water bed is set at 30 degrees and i sleep very well in it.

i agree trv next to thermostat is bad practice, however if OP's set is incorrect to start with buying a radio controlled jobby wont improve things. that was the point i was trying to get across.

Taken from [link] Cot death and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Keep your baby at the right temperature.

• The ideal room temperature for your baby is 18°C (a range of 16 to 20°C is acceptable).

Probably best solution under the circumstances is to use a remote stat in the bedroom. This will be far more accurate than a TRV.

 

[Paul Barker]

Taken from [link] Cot death and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Keep your baby at the right temperature.

• The ideal room temperature for your baby is 18°C (a range of 16 to 20°C is acceptable).

Probably best solution under the circumstances is to use a remote stat in the bedroom. This will be far more accurate than a TVR.

The cheap remote stat linked to is quite poor. I have used them when they were the only cheap one available a few years back.

The Salus one is better in practice and also similar price.

You can't get BG to fit them anywhere else but in a hall, or half way up the stairs is another favourite of theirs.

I had to fit heating for a blind lady with modern insulated dwelling tiuny hall. Her interfering ex bg relative said it must be put in the hall. I said I don't agree but he's your relly so if you prefer to follow his advise ok.

Next thing you know I'm being paid to move it to the lounge.

It was utterly useless in the hall in that instance, as it sounds like it is in yours O.P..

 

[Bernie2]

Its a case of programming.

It seems BG where programmed to put the thermostat in the coldest spot in the house, years ago.

Assumed to be the hall, probably because it was suspected to have the most air changes, with the space being uncontrolled, unlike a room which you can go in and shut the door.

The thing is, as you have found out. What if the hall is not the coolest in the house or somebody has installed a nice rad there to heat things up.

It then get's hot in the hall and its freezing in other rooms.

But BG it seems may still be using the old program

I put ours in the living room where we sit the most, then when you get hot you can just shut it off.

If we want other rooms warm we just turn it up and turn the living room rad down.

Don't like trv's, waste of money to me.

Ohh! Alright I am an older person, brought up when men and women put a cardigan on when they where cold, not turn up the heat.

Ahh! The good old days!

Your joking it was freezing!!!

But then the gas bills where smaller and we never spewed CO2 all over the place, except when we went to work in the steel mills, cotton factories and the like. Now we ain't got any jobs hardly let alone CO2 spilling places of work.

So if your on the dole tell them your being "green"

 

[I am bonkers]

The cheap remote stat linked to is quite poor.

The Salus one is better in practice and also similar price.

Take issue with you on that score. Have lived with the Towerstat RF for 2 yrs....faultless. Google the Salus and you'll find plenty of complaints.

 

[migoplumber]

i shall put that in me book of things i didnt know, and when i have me own kid,he shall have his own stat in his room. in fact it will be wireless and he can have it in his cot with the instructions. better to start him off learning quickly... he's gonna make a good apprentice.

seriously tho, thanks for that bonkers.

 

[I am bonkers]

i shall put that in me book of things i didnt know, and when i have me own kid,he/she shall have his/her own stat in his/her room. In fact it will be wireless and he/she can have it in his/her cot with the instructions. Better to start him/her off learning quickly... He/she's gonna make a good apprentice.

Seriously tho, thanks for that bonkers.

You're welcome

 

[Paul Barker]

Take issue with you on that score. Have lived with the Towerstat RF for 2 yrs....faultless. Google the Salus and you'll find plenty of complaints.

Sorry I haven't lived with either, I only fit them. Haven't had a problem with either for reliability but the Salus has better programming functions.

Salus motorised valves are rubbish I would never fit another one of those, but I haven't had an issue with any of their controls.

OK I just Googled the RT500 and didn't find a problem. What are you referring to?

 

[Daljit]

Thanks for all responses.

I reckon i need to increase the radiator size in the bedroom. I recently switched to a condensing boiler with out changing the rads. I seem to have got away with this in most rooms but probably not the baby room.

cheers

Daljit