Controls and Thermostats

The correct heating controls makes sure that your home sits at a comfortable temperature and does not waste any fuel or heat, and so reduce your carbon dioxide emissions and save loads on heating bills. Kentish Town Plumbers are professionals.If you own an electric storage heating and hot water system, and the storage heaters use off-peak electricity to heat up overnight and release heat through the day, you would need a different set of controls should your house be heated by a system of water-filled pipework and radiators out from a boiler, this is a ‘wet’ central heating system, whether it is gas, LPG or oil burning. The homes complete set of controls should really be a boiler thermostat, a timer or programmer, a room thermostat and thermostatic radiator valves (TRVs).

What You Can Save.
However old your boiler is, the correct controls will let you set your heating and hot water to ‘on’ or ‘off ‘ when you need want, and also heat only the areas of your home you want, and the temperature. A Kentish Town Plumber is a trained boiler fitter. Here are some of the savings you could make in a normal three-bedroom semi-detached house with gas heating. If you were to install and correctly use a room thermostat with thermostatic radiator valves, it could save £70-£150 and 310kg to 630kg Co2 per annum. Fitting a hot water tank insulating jacket will save you around £20-£30 with 90kg – 130kg Co2 per annum a year. Savings can also be made by operating your controls more effectively, like turning down your room thermostat by a degree would save save around £75 and 310kg Co2 per annum.
It is possible to upgrade or fit heating controls and not change your boiler, and it’s a really good idea to give this some consideration, if your controls more than 12 years old. Thermostats for fitting in rooms are Room thermostats, are much more accurate than they were.