Zoned Heating and Heating Controls

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Zoned Heating & Heating Controls

Traditional heating systems generally tend to be set to turn on at pre-determined times during the day or night, heating the water and supplying any radiators that happen to be turned on at that time. While they generally work very well, they can be wasteful in terms of heating rooms that may not be being used – such as bedrooms during the day or downstairs rooms at night time.

Similarly, we often turn on “the heating” purely in order to have a quick shower or bath, forgetting that many of the radiators are still open – thereby again wasting energy and driving up costs. With the best will in the world, we’re not always going to go round the radiators and manually turn them off or shut off the radiator feed at the cylinder.

With Zoned Heating Controls you have much better control over which parts of your house you want to heat at any given time, resulting in a much more efficient – and cheaper to run, system.

Your heating: On / Off Controls

These will typically comprise of a room thermostat and a ‘programmer’ which controls the boiler. The thermostat will both set the desired room temperature and monitor the rooms’ actual temperature. It will turn off the boiler when the room (or rooms) has reached the desired temperature, and turn it back on when the room temperature drops.

Programmable Room Thermostats

Programmable Room thermostats will also you to set different temperatures for your room(s) at different times of the day. You may (for example) want to wake up in a warm bedroom but keep it a little cooler at night. Or you might want to maintain a warmer house over the weekend when it’s fully occupied than you would during the week when you’re out. These systems can also independently control when the water is heated for tap / shower use (as opposed to being heated for radiators etc).

These programmable thermostats are now wireless making it easier to install these controls even on existing systems.

Advanced Heating Controls

We supply and install the industry leading Vokera boilers. These boilers lead the way in heating your home in the most cost efficient manner possible. This is how it works [taken from the Vokera website]:

The very latest innovation is built in Opentherm technology, Vokèra boilers have this technology built in as standard allowing the Vokèra Wireless Opentherm Protocol control to maximise your energy saving in the home.

The output flow temperature is just enough to maintain the required room temperature, which enables much lower return temperatures in comparison to a standard programmable room thermostat, enabling the condensing boiler to be held in condensing mode as much as possible. When the condensing boiler is in condensing mode it is at its most efficient.

With standard controls, the boiler is programmed to come on when the temperature drops below the set temperature and off when it rises above it. This constant ‘on-off’ cycle is inefficient as the boiler has to keep firing up. It is like a car being most fuel efficient when being driven at a constant speed and less efficient if it slows down and accelerates, effectively this is what the Vokèra OpenTherm protocol control and Vokèra boiler achieves.

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Zoned Heating and Heating Controls

Zoned Heating & Heating Controls

Your heating: On / Off Controls

Programmable Room Thermostats

Advanced Heating Controls