Myself and MBH have just moved house, and the property we're now in
has a Gledhill Boilermate 2000 thermal store system. The question
relates to the how the CH system is supposed to work.

There are 12 radiators, a towel rail, and a wall-mounted thermostat.
The house was built in 2003.

The radiators in the lounge and the four bedrooms are fitted with
Myson 'two-way' TRVs. The lounge also has a living-flame gas fire. The
thermostat is in the hall, the radiator of which does not have a TRV.

The question is, how is one supposed to set up and run the system?

For the TRVs to be effective, they would need to be set to shut off at
a lower temperature than the thermostat, otherwise the system would
operate under the control of the thermostat, making them redundant.
But one normally runs the lounge at a higher temperature than the
hall, yet with this system this can't happen.

Although the living-flame gas fire could be lit, which would shut off
the TRVs due to the temperature rise in the lounge, this still leaves
the issue of the bedrooms, where the TRVs would only function if set
to a lower temperature than the hall.

Any comments or advice gratefully received...

TIA

TF

Terry Fields wrote:
Myself and MBH have just moved house, and the property we're now in
has a Gledhill Boilermate 2000 thermal store system. The question
relates to the how the CH system is supposed to work.

There are 12 radiators, a towel rail, and a wall-mounted thermostat.
The house was built in 2003.

The radiators in the lounge and the four bedrooms are fitted with
Myson 'two-way' TRVs. The lounge also has a living-flame gas fire. The
thermostat is in the hall, the radiator of which does not have a TRV.

The question is, how is one supposed to set up and run the system?

For the TRVs to be effective, they would need to be set to shut off at
a lower temperature than the thermostat, otherwise the system would
operate under the control of the thermostat, making them redundant.
But one normally runs the lounge at a higher temperature than the
hall, yet with this system this can't happen.

yes it can.

If you keep the door to the living room shut ;-)


Although the living-flame gas fire could be lit, which would shut off
the TRVs due to the temperature rise in the lounge, this still leaves
the issue of the bedrooms, where the TRVs would only function if set
to a lower temperature than the hall.

Any comments or advice gratefully received...


what makes you think that teh hall temperature is the same as the bedrooms?


TIA

TF

Terry Fields wrote:

Myself and MBH have just moved house, and the property we're now in
has a Gledhill Boilermate 2000 thermal store system. The question
relates to the how the CH system is supposed to work.

There are 12 radiators, a towel rail, and a wall-mounted thermostat.
The house was built in 2003.

The radiators in the lounge and the four bedrooms are fitted with
Myson 'two-way' TRVs. The lounge also has a living-flame gas fire. The
thermostat is in the hall, the radiator of which does not have a TRV.

The question is, how is one supposed to set up and run the system?

For the TRVs to be effective, they would need to be set to shut off at
a lower temperature than the thermostat, otherwise the system would
operate under the control of the thermostat, making them redundant.
But one normally runs the lounge at a higher temperature than the
hall, yet with this system this can't happen.

Although the living-flame gas fire could be lit, which would shut off
the TRVs due to the temperature rise in the lounge, this still leaves
the issue of the bedrooms, where the TRVs would only function if set
to a lower temperature than the hall.

Any comments or advice gratefully received...

TIA

TF
All you have to do is to match the output of the hall radiator to the
heat loss in that area. Pinching off the water flow to the hall radiator
could mean that the hall rarely meets its target temperature set by the
stat allowing plenty of heat for the rest of the rooms according to
their individual TRVs
Experimentation needed.

Bob

In message , Terry Fields
writes

Myself and MBH have just moved house, and the property we're now in
has a Gledhill Boilermate 2000 thermal store system. The question
relates to the how the CH system is supposed to work.

There are 12 radiators, a towel rail, and a wall-mounted thermostat.
The house was built in 2003.

The radiators in the lounge and the four bedrooms are fitted with
Myson 'two-way' TRVs. The lounge also has a living-flame gas fire. The
thermostat is in the hall, the radiator of which does not have a TRV.

The question is, how is one supposed to set up and run the system?

For the TRVs to be effective, they would need to be set to shut off at
a lower temperature than the thermostat, otherwise the system would
operate under the control of the thermostat, making them redundant.
But one normally runs the lounge at a higher temperature than the
hall, yet with this system this can't happen.

Although the living-flame gas fire could be lit, which would shut off
the TRVs due to the temperature rise in the lounge, this still leaves
the issue of the bedrooms, where the TRVs would only function if set
to a lower temperature than the hall.

Any comments or advice gratefully received...

Are boilermate currently trading?

I know that they went down and heard that they had started up again.

I would check on their current status. Their pcbs contain an obsolete
chip which has a habit of blowing up (literally - blows the top off the
chip)

If they are not currently able to supply you with this very overpriced
pcb (over £200), if it goes down, you are knackered

A bit of a bugger a week before xmas ...

--
geoff