On 26/02/2017 21:29, John Rumm wrote:
On 26/02/2017 21:16, DerbyBorn wrote:
John Rumm wrote in
o.uk:
On 26/02/2017 19:17, Murmansk wrote:
I'm soon going to be moving into a new (to me) flat that has a new
combi boiler with an old fashioned wired thermostat. The timer is
mounted on the front of the boiler and is a very crude mechanical
thing with little switches.
Part of me wants to install a Hive system but as a halfway house I'm
wondering about about replacing the basic thermostat with a digital
one - then I could leave the boiler on constant and set some fancy
varying programs via the thermostat - different times and
temperatures on different days.
So basically a standard programmable thermostat then...
Does my proposed setup and sound practical and can anyone recommend a
stat please?
Yup eminently doable. I quite like the Horstman Centaurstat 7. It gives
several time slots per day (up to 6 IIRC) and all 7 days are
programmable independently if you want (or you can copy one day's
settings to any other, or do basic 5+2 day programs)
What about Hot Water - will you leave that on timer - or have a cylinder
thermostat?
The OP mentioned a combi boiler, so that is heated on deamnd.
However if you have stored hot water, then you will need a more
conventional programmer and cylinder stat for that bit.
The oil fired combi boiler I have does have a small store of hot water
which it tries to keep hot. Fortunately it also has an internal on/off
programmer so I can use it with a 1 channel programmable Heatmiser
Smartstat.
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