Hi all,
When they installed the standard gas-fired, hot water central heating in my
3-bed semi, the plumbers insisted that my large lounge radiator should not fitted with a TRV, because it needed to be permanently open. I was surprised that the boiler (Ideal Logic 24) doesn't have a built-in bypass, but the installation manual confirms that it doesn't.My lounge radiator is the biggest radiator in the whole house, since the lounge is the biggest room by far. I rarely use the lounge! I spend most of my time, when at home, either in my small upstairs study or in my smallish bedroom.
I guess I must be wasting a lot of money heating the lounge when heat is not needed there. With my (admittedly scant) knowledge of heating theory, I would have thought it would make sense to have TRVs on ALL the rads, and a bypass curquit added at the boiler, just in case all the TRVs ae closed simultaneously at any point in time. Am I correct?
If so, can anyone recommend a simple/cheap/effective and reliable bypass circuit to add to the above combi?
Many thanks,
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