David Hansen wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:35:13 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be benpost
wrote this:-

any advice on what i should do? would it be worth getting a
thermostat installed and having the TRVs removed?

Find the room which warms up most slowly, cools down most quickly,
is not affected too much by direct sunlight and does not have other
forms of heating in it. This is likely to be a room with a north
facing window, but little else can be said about it as it as it will
vary from house to house.

Fit a plain valve to the radiator in this room and fit a properly
connected thermostat in this room. Then the thermostatic valves in
the other rooms will limit the temperatures there and the thermostat
will bring the boiler/heating pump on and off as necessary.




If the rads are staying in the same place, why take them off at all?
It's pretty easy to plaster/paper/paint up to the brackets, and no one
will see the rest.