I am curious as we'll be moving soon to a 3 flat-PPE. How do you control the heater valve? I understand that ours will be set externally and left on that setting. Our thermostats will be our only control, not a brilliant one if I understood well how underfloor heating works.
Absolutely! Landlord shouldn't get to make that decision without you agreeing to what temperature suits you & your family. After all, you're not asking for sauna heat levels, or boiling hot water from the taps to make tea with.
I know someone who has been seriously ill and after treatment feels the cold more acutely than ever before.. does that mean they don't get to choose the appropriate temperature for their living accommodation.. or that they are given no choice but to wash in cooler water. Many medical conditions alters people's requirements to be comfortable, so perhaps a note from a hospital consultant or doctor to Landlord should do it, eh? FFS! What complete nonsense.
The best of luck in court.
Slightly off-topic, but I had an interesting conversation with a GP about "Minergie" buildings yesterday.
I went in with a sore throat / cold that I've had for a week. She asked me if I lived in a Minergie building and I said yes.
She then advised me to open my windows to air the place three times a day as (if I understood her correctly) the dry air in Minergie buildings encourages "bugs". She also advised me to hang over the kettle / stove when heating water to hydrate my airways. (She also told me to leave the door open when I shower but in a communal living situation that's not practical...)
I've passed this information on to the staff at the foyer as we recently had a long debate about airing rooms. We (the residents) were told we should air our rooms for ten minutes a day, but that the communal rooms did not need to be aired.
We still seem to be having problems with our underfloor heating. In my room it's ok, but the communal areas are rather chilly today.
When I wrote heater valve - I meant thermal actuators.
I can see ours as they are in our laundry room. I can see when they are off.
They control the flow rate of the hot water in the underfloor heating circuit and are switched on and off by the room thermostats - one room thermostat for each thermal actuator.
I agree ventilation is very important, but then so is getting your apartment back up to the correct temperature again.
I have become very Swiss over the years and open all windows and doors in the morning, and throw my duvets over the balcony railing or the garden clothes line when cleaning rooms. I can't have any heat on in the bedroom as it makes me feel ill. I need a cold room to sleep in.. but then I am lucky as I seem to have a choice
Hello heating experts,
I've some questions related to this topic.
Our house has underfloor heating and is currently set at 22 0C. But in the temperature controller unit, there are two different modes of control
1) Comfort mode - constant temperature throughout day and night
2) Automatic mode - wherein the temperature is maintained during 6 am-11 pm and other than those hours the heating is switched off.
Initially I thought the automatic mode should be better and more economical, but then I switched to comfort mode, because I assumed it must be spending more energy heating up the water allover again every morning. And I found the rooms to be quite cold during the night.
Could the experts suggest which is a better mode during the winter?
Our house is also a minergie house and I read the previous posts about airing the rooms etc. But we also have a air-exchanger unit. Doesn't this compensate the need to open the windows.
Also should we be using the air exchanger system during winters, I would think the heating bills would be higher if outside cold air is being pumped inside.
Apologies for the multiple questions, but I would really appreciate some feedback here.
Thanks,
A
Bed socks!! My sister gave me some for Xmas, they are lovely and warm. I don't have a onesie, but i wear track suit bottoms and a fleece.
One year it was so cold in my flat, i went to bed in the above, plus a hat and scarf. And a couple of cats. The landlord fixed it the next day with bleeding the radiators.
Then it was too hot!!
We were told to keep the baby bedroom around 18-19°C
@Andy
We also live in a Minergy apartment. We were specifically told not to open the windows to air the apartment. The air exchanger does this automatically, apparently taking damp air from the bathrooms and adding humid air to the rest of the apartment, we have a switch to control the exchanger which we are supposed to run on full for at least 10 mins per day.
Interesting... I think we also have the air exchanger (at any rate there is faint constant hissing in my bedroom), but we were told (by the architect) to air the bedrooms for 10 minutes a day. And my GP, as I said, told me I should air the room 3 times a day. But she was speaking as a medical professional on the health benefits of airing the room, not on the energy-saving aspect.
3 times a day?? Your GP thinks everyone works part time or stays at home!
But nothing beats the HOT WATER BOTTLE!
Minergie info pdf , it is quite interesting.
That's the theory. We live in a Minergi building with air exchanger, and here the air is so dry we walk around with a constant sore throat. If we try to get more humidity in, the air exchanger sucks it out and there is nothing we can do about it.
Underfloor heating is a chapter in itself: the house is either too warm or too cold and takes forever to adjust to outside changes in temperature (very useful this particular winter), some rooms get heating and some don't, and in order to have an "acceptable" temperature overall" our kitchen has to be way to hot because this is the room where the idiot who planned the floor heating put the central piping unit from which the hot water flows to the entire flat. The pipes are also tiny and regularly get clogged by residue. But once in a blue moon the system works properly in almost every room and it gets very comfy.
Not sure I would rent Minergi again, but our flat is from the early 2000s and the technology has probably gotten a lot better.
MC I reco. the green one , the pizza to grab
Mine has arms and legs and measures about 75 cm. ideal for winter!
I dont need anything since I am too hot!
First question : there are setback thermostat which you can select the lower temperature at night or when ever you desire. But in your case it looks like there is only "Comfort and OFF"
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Second question "Air exchanger " it sucks the cold outdoor air true a "Exchanger and Retracts some of the heat and blows it into the house, at the same time it blows the stale air out to the Atmosphere
A Humidity fire after the air exchanger will doo the trick.
There should be some zone thermostat somewhere
Would help if you "Know" But if it is the air exchanger it is a lousy installation . The air is passing by some thing which creates the noise (Metal screw maybe)