Central heating system...
How does it work? Pretty much every customer we go to seems to feel they don't fully understand exactly how their heating system operates.
This, I think, is due to the lack of an general user instruction leaflet.
There will be a boiler manual, a programmer leaflet, thermostat manual, although no overview of how they all work collectively as a central heating system..
A typical, ordinary modern domestic heating system has the following key elements: - Boiler - Programmer - Room thermostat - Hot water cylinder thermostat - Radiators - Hot water cylinder / storage tank - Diverter valve / Zone valves - Pump Your central heating boiler provides 2 individual features.
In order to heat your hotwater tank and to heat your property.
Your programmer contains a time clock as well as a couple of time switches (channels) that change the hot water and central/heating on and off at pre-selected times of day (or night).
When your central heating is switched 'on' from the programmer, your boiler will be turned on and off simply by either your "room thermostat" and the "hot/water cylinder thermostat".
Each thermostat will turn the boiler on when heat is required, then turn it off again when it's not.
The diverter valve or zone valves are electrically operated valve which switches the hot water going from the central/heating boiler to the radiators or hot water cylinder depending on which thermostat is actually calling for heat.
In the event that both are calling for heat simultaneously the valve will assume a mid-position, sharing the flow amongst cylinder and radiators.
The diverter valve 'mid-position valve' or zone valves for an s plan type system.
And that's it.
Easy.
How does it work? Pretty much every customer we go to seems to feel they don't fully understand exactly how their heating system operates.
This, I think, is due to the lack of an general user instruction leaflet.
There will be a boiler manual, a programmer leaflet, thermostat manual, although no overview of how they all work collectively as a central heating system..
A typical, ordinary modern domestic heating system has the following key elements: - Boiler - Programmer - Room thermostat - Hot water cylinder thermostat - Radiators - Hot water cylinder / storage tank - Diverter valve / Zone valves - Pump Your central heating boiler provides 2 individual features.
In order to heat your hotwater tank and to heat your property.
Your programmer contains a time clock as well as a couple of time switches (channels) that change the hot water and central/heating on and off at pre-selected times of day (or night).
When your central heating is switched 'on' from the programmer, your boiler will be turned on and off simply by either your "room thermostat" and the "hot/water cylinder thermostat".
Each thermostat will turn the boiler on when heat is required, then turn it off again when it's not.
The diverter valve or zone valves are electrically operated valve which switches the hot water going from the central/heating boiler to the radiators or hot water cylinder depending on which thermostat is actually calling for heat.
In the event that both are calling for heat simultaneously the valve will assume a mid-position, sharing the flow amongst cylinder and radiators.
The diverter valve 'mid-position valve' or zone valves for an s plan type system.
And that's it.
Easy.
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