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Domestic CH - to zone or not to zone...
Hi all.
Any CH design guru's aid me in my small dilemma please? I have a 1960's mid terrace Wimpy (spit) three bed house. It had no CH at all untill a couple of years ago when I put a new combi boiler in [1]. I also put a couple of rads in. It was not a complete system, DHW was what I needed mostly. Now the time has finally come to finish the job. The dilemma is whether to zone off the rear two rooms upstairs. The bathroom and bedroom 2 are north facing and in winter they can be much colder than the rest of the house. The thremostat and timing controls are in the open plan lounge; see description below. If the lounge is nice and toasty, then the thermostat will not be telling the boiler to fire up. Therefore the water in the pipes will not be heated and under circulation. No matter how far the TRV's in these rooms open they will recieve no heat. Thoughts: If I put a zone in to supply heat for these rooms its a lot more pipework and electrics to try and hide. If I'm doing these two rooms why not all of them. If I do all of them am I going to lose heat when the upstairs is off and downstairs is leaching up? What else? Layout is... Front is facing south, rear north. 1 mile from the sea. Front door opens directly to the living room. Ground floor split into just two rooms: - a living room to the front - a dining room / kitchen to the rear Open staircase from the living room to a landing. Off the landing at the back is the bathroom and bedroom 2, (my 5yo sons.) Off the landing to the front is bedroom 1 (ours) and bedroom 3 (used as a study.) Radiator with no TRV in the lounge as the controls are here by the stairs. Radiators with TRV's in all other rooms. Heated towel rail in bathroom. Thanks for any eyeopeners. Mike. [1] Worcester Bosch Greenstar R35HE Plus. What a mouthful. As a part of putting in a new kitchen, losing an airing cupboard and a wall and associated HW tank and plumbing. |
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