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I used to have smart TRV's on all my radiators, I have now removed nearly all of them. It makes no sense heating a room at a time.
Excessive Gas Consumption - Not sure what to try next!
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That's interesting. It goes against the modern accepted practice. I agree, because I don't like walking into rooms which are freezing.
Here is a screenshot of the weather over the January period. Not sure how accurate this is though as the last two weekends have been sub zero temps.
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TBH although slightly offtopic that sounds like your system is not balanced properly.
The boiler has a switch which I will turn off.
Surprisingly low, if each peak is a whole day's usage. I'd suspect an issue with the Tado readings.
Gas usage for December in my 3-bed house averaged ~50kWh per day.
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How have you come to that conclusion? I have a lovely warm house with all radiators heating up in unison.
They are invaluable to me as I use them to turn off the heating on several rooms we do not use, or turn off heating in rooms at certain times of day on a schedule.
Thank you for the insight, very useful. This means your usage is approximately 1,500 kWh per month. Still a LOT lower than my 5,000 kWh!!!
Each peak is half an hour!
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But your Octopus gas usage suggests that something is turning your boiler on periodically all day long. How have you setup the heating schedules in Tado?
Because you said there is no point in heating one room at a time and that implies the system is out of balance and the radiators are not heating in unison!
It varies room by room. But essentially I only have my study heated during the day and then by evening the other rooms we use are heated ready for when everyone gets home. During the night only the bedrooms have a temp set to stop people freezing overnight.
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Gotcha but I was referring to how smart TRV's are able to call for heat individually just to heat their radiator and no others.
Ahh crossed wires!
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