"Mike Hibbert" wrote
Hi all,

We have a Combi boiler ... which has a heat setting on it.
There are TRV on all the rads (except the bathroom - I assume to stop the
boiler overheating if the TRV's shut off) , but we dont have a room stat.

Are the TRV's really temperature controlled or do they simply reduce the
amount of water the rad can get? If that is the case, then with no room
stat, the only way I can control the overall temperature is by the boiler,
so I have to go into the garage and turn it down/up. Is this a normal set
up?

Normally I would leave the heating on 24*7 during the winter and control it
via the room stat so it would get to a reasonable temp and then switch off,
but now if I leave the heating on the boiler tuns all the time (this must be
expensive!!) and the bathroom is like a sauna.

This is almost if not exactly the same as my setup.

There's no room stat and I control the overall temperature via the
control on the boiler (which for me is in the kitchen).

I have TRV's on all the rads, including now the recently installed
towel rail, however, I don't turn off any of the TRV's.

Maybe i've done wrong by TRV'ing the last radiator, but I don't know
whether the lack of a room stat is an issue. I suppose it'd save
visiting the boiler !

I tend to whack the TRV's on max and keep the boiler on low rather
than the reverse.

Cheers,

Paul.