Warming the bathroom

I've not got any programmable TRVs, but I thought their "smartness" was just setting their open/close temperature at different times throughout the day? Not that the TRVs had a method to call for heat to the boiler?

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Andy Burns
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Back in the 1970's I had one of the big Aladdin table lamps that I used for dinner parties (before I got the rise and fall lamp, of course). It chucked out a useful amount of heat.

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newshound

When you set them up you can specify a heat on demand setting. This is what enables you to heat only those rooms you require, as I said before we are tending to use our back reception room and we can ask Alexa to boost the heat for that room without any other radiator or the thermostat calling for heat. Likewise if in bed and wanting to read after the the normal shutdown (if you can call it that as the system is always on if only for frost protection reasons) and only the bedroom and the non-TRV?d bathroom heat up. What I do not know is what part the thermostat plays in that? I suspect nothing and that the TRVs are communicating only with the receiver. I have noted in the app if any TRVs are calling for heat on the device dashboard it will show in the thermostat that heating is taking place but that might just be the receiver communicating with the thermostat to indicate there is a demand.

Richard

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Tricky Dicky

We have out bathroom towel rail plumbed into the primary circuit. That way it warms up when the hot water is heated so we get warm towels even in the summer. If it gets too hot we can turn it off with the radiator valve.

How easy this is to do depends on where the other plumbing goes.

Reply to
Andrew

OK got an answer to my question about whether you need the Hive thermostat if you have all Hive TRVs and the answer is yes. This explains how the system works

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Richard

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Tricky Dicky

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