Why this happens
Although different rooms are controlling an maintaining the same temperature, you feel warmer in one than another.
The interesting thing about this is understanding that rooms need to be at very different temperatures to have the same perceived comfort levels. People often set each room to the same (for example 20ºC) in every room initially. Then they find that the kitchen is too warm at 20ºC and the living room is too cool at 20ºC. The bedroom is too warm at 20ºC in the evening but not warm enough at 20ºC in the morning. What is happening is that we just all want the rooms to be a different temperatures depending on what we are doing. In rooms where we are active, we want them cooler. Rooms where we are sitting down, such as studies and living rooms, we want warmer.
Rooms can also have differences caused by droughts from windows or doors making them cooler in that part of the room, or solar gain from sitting in the sun making you feel warmer. The great thing about zoning your home is that you can now have just the temperature that you want in every room. You may have to experiment a little to get just the temperatures you want.
Related Information:
- Boiler is firing when the heating is turned off
None of the rooms in the house need heat, all of the heating zones in the app are blue, but the boiler is still firing unnecessarily. Some combination boilers (made by companies such as Vaillant and Worcester Bosch) have a setting that keeps hot water ready in the boiler for the taps. These boilers can have two programmes built into the front of the boiler: one for heating and one for hot water. The heating programme needs to be left on 24/7, as the heating is controlled by the Genius Hub system via the thermostat terminals on the boiler. However, if the hot water timer is left on, the boiler will come on intermittently during the day, because a thermostat in the small hot water store inside the boiler (sometimes called a "keep-hot" or "pre-heat" feature) triggers the boiler to heat more water. When the hot water timer is turned off, the boiler will stop turning on intermittently to heat this water, but it will still provide hot water on demand. Many boilers also have a pump overrun: the pump keeps running for a few minutes after the heat demand stops, to remove residual heat from the boiler. This can sound like the boiler is still on.
- Temperature close to the target temperature but the boiler does not come on or the boiler stays on
- Turning The Genius Hub Off In The Summer
- Rooms feel like different temperatures