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That's great, thanks.
Wouldn't I be able to set a different zone with a thermostat though? So it would call for heat when it's temp drops below the required or when scheduled?
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You would. You can set a room as 'bedroom' and assign the Thermostat to that if that's where it's placed. It would call for heat when the temp drops below specified and the room would heat up. The problem comes when you want to heat another room, but not the bedroom, as any time one of the other TRV calls for heat it would mean the bedroom heats up too, as there's nothing to stop the flow in to that radiator.
You could cap the temp in the bedroom with a regular TRV I guess but then you potentially have a situation of the thermostat is calling for heat to the bedroom and the 'manual' TRV not allowing it to flow through the radiator. If all the other [tado] TRVs are also closed at the point I don't think that would be very good for your boiler / system.
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Wouldn't I be able to set a different zone with a thermostat though?
But you still need to be able to control the radiator.
If you had, say, 3 thermostats / zones in the houseOne set to request heat if it's below, say, 14 degrees
One for 18
One for 22.Then if any of those were true then the boiler switches on and all zones start heating up.
It's the TRV that'll turn the radiator off it it's too warm in that room, even if the boiler is still heating the rest of the house
(Edit: what Silly_Savage said...)
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We have a Tado TRV on our bedroom radiator, Tado thermostat for the rest of the house. House warms up from 6am, bedroom TRV stops the bedroom cooking before we wake up. It opens at 7am for an hour or so. During the day it's closed as no one is in there. Open again for an hour before bedtime, closed at night. I hate a stuffy bedroom.
As Silly Savage says, it is loud. I specifically set it to only adjust once we're already awake or not yet asleep. My wife christened it The Little Printer.
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TRV in the bedroom means you might get woken up by it opening if you want heating before you wake up. Thermostat in the bedroom means that room will heat up when any other room in the house calls for heat.
I went for no TRV and no Thermostat in the bedroom so it's usually pretty warm in there as it's getting heated when we're using the home office during the day. The cat likes it! I also left the towel rail unregulated which works pretty well as the towels actually get dried through the course of a day.