Following my previous post in this forum regarding installing an additional forum, I would like to follow a suggestion made that I should install a remote room thermostat.
My current room thermostat, located in a bedroom, when it calls for heat it is wired to simply switch on the central heating pump and, when the desired temperature is reached, it switches the pump off. The boiler keeps on working and the temperatures in other rooms are controlled by radiator thermostatic valves on each radiator.
I am happy with this simple system, although I appreciate that it may not be the most cost efficient and I would be reluctant to incur the extra capital outlay to upgrade the system with motorised valves etc.
I'm about to have new radiators installed in the lounge, the room having previously been heated only by a gas fire. I would now like to add a wireless room thermostat and to be able to move it around until I find the optimum location for it.
All the wireless thermostats that I see advertised seem to do much more than I need, including setting the heating to come at different times with different temperatures etc. All I really want is a simple, but remote, one that will control just the pump like my existing one.
Could somebody please suggest/recommend a simple wireless thermostat that will do what I need i.e. switch a pump on and off. Also, could you give me some idea of how this would be wired in - I would like to retain my existing room thermostat for the time being until I'm happy with the behaviour of the new system.
As I've mentioned in another post, my plumber, who is about to install my extra radiators doesn't have faith in the reliability of wireless thermostats so I can't ask him for suggestions and I'm sort of on my own in selecting and installing a wireless room thermostat.
My current room thermostat, located in a bedroom, when it calls for heat it is wired to simply switch on the central heating pump and, when the desired temperature is reached, it switches the pump off. The boiler keeps on working and the temperatures in other rooms are controlled by radiator thermostatic valves on each radiator.
I am happy with this simple system, although I appreciate that it may not be the most cost efficient and I would be reluctant to incur the extra capital outlay to upgrade the system with motorised valves etc.
I'm about to have new radiators installed in the lounge, the room having previously been heated only by a gas fire. I would now like to add a wireless room thermostat and to be able to move it around until I find the optimum location for it.
All the wireless thermostats that I see advertised seem to do much more than I need, including setting the heating to come at different times with different temperatures etc. All I really want is a simple, but remote, one that will control just the pump like my existing one.
Could somebody please suggest/recommend a simple wireless thermostat that will do what I need i.e. switch a pump on and off. Also, could you give me some idea of how this would be wired in - I would like to retain my existing room thermostat for the time being until I'm happy with the behaviour of the new system.
As I've mentioned in another post, my plumber, who is about to install my extra radiators doesn't have faith in the reliability of wireless thermostats so I can't ask him for suggestions and I'm sort of on my own in selecting and installing a wireless room thermostat.
