"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Anode wrote:
At present I have a 15years old gas fired non-modulating boiler with a
pumped, vented, system, controlled by a wall thermostat. The controls on
this system will not avoid radiators that are either on and far too
hot, or off.

Surely in most cases it's the temperature of the room that matters?

Thus the radiators cycle between being much hotter than is needed for
just compensating for heat losses from the rooms, producing
unpleasantly hot air around the radiators, and then cycling to a period
of being colder than they need to be.

Are you forced to be that close to the rads? I've got one so close to this
computer I can touch it from the chair, but I'm not aware of heat actually
radiating from it - and certainly not hot air which rises.

That's not to say a modulating boiler isn't a good idea - I shall get one
when it comes time to change mine. But this will be for efficiency reasons
rather than comfort.

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Dave Plowman


It could be just a personal thing, but radiators above a certain temperature
I find unpleasant and best avoided; it seems to be something to do with
breathing in the hot air from around them so I was trying to avoid this in
future alterations. I understand that comfort level is affected by many
factors, including relative humidity and radiant heat emission from walls
and objects in the room, so personal comfort can no doubt be a complex
concept.

Anode.