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tado smart thermostat

  • 28-11-2015 10:26pm
    #1
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭


    hi

    just saw on the bargains thread that tado have 10% off till tomorrow. i've been thinking about getting a smart thermostat for a while now so now might be the time! i have a townhouse built in 2008 with a heatline gas boiler. it has three switches/timers on it for the underfloor downstairs (which has three thermostats - for the living room, hall and kitchen), the upstairs rads, and the hot water. we also have an immersion tank upstairs.

    is this something that would be of benefit and would it be hard to install?? our underfloor can be hard to get right and if its sunny the day after having it on the house can be stifling! i just want to make sure it can work alright with our system as i'm pretty clueless when it comes to the plumbing and heating side of things!


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  • #2
    Walter Becket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭Walter Becket


    Underfloor usually has enough thermostatic controls.
    I've a customer who recently moved onto a house with underfloor the house was cold so I set at the the stats and explained the system. As always with underfloor heating I said "it's intended to be left on the whole time" and we had the conversation about that costing more and in the end I said as I always say about underfloor "it's a Rolls Royce it costs more to buy and run than other systems but heats the house very well". Your post reminded me of what happened when he moved in. The house heated up slowly and then got too hot so he turned it off it got a bit hotter and when it got cold he turned it on it got a bit colder before starting to heat up again. My point is that the system should be set up correctly and left on. The room stats would allready have turned off by the time he turned off the whole system by letting the house get too cold before turning the system back on he prevented the system from working the way it should and of course by letting the slab get cold again it tuck ages to get the house warm again. I know it is difficult for people to leave the heating on all the time it goes against the grain so if you are using a timer with your underfloor heating my advice is have it on for at least 6 hours a day every day. If you let the slab cool down too much it takes ages to heat up and is likely to over shoot the mark making the house too hot.
    Sorry if I didn't really answer your question.


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