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Our room thermostat for our central heating is above the hottest rad in the house and as such, to keep the room at 21C (we have small children) we have to keep the thermostat at 27C and always have something on it - such as wet washing.
Last week I noticed that the temperature on the thermostat started to decline (back to 24C which took the room down to around 16). The boiler, although kicking in wasn't able to get the thermostat back to 27. We changed the boiler setting from ECO to 'snow flake' and increased the thermostat setting to 28 which it has maintained for the last few days (keeping the room at 21C). However today I noticed the temperature on the thermostat is decreasing again and the boiler is unable to get it back up. Given we are now using all the highest settings there is nothing further we can do.
The boiler is less than 12 months old and when it was installed additional rads were added to the existing one so we have a combination of 2 systems - the very old ones which use one pipe to connect them to the boiler and the new ones which have two pipes (I've done some other research on this so I think this may be significant?).
I am a tenant in France and come from Australia so know very little about gas boiler systems however it does seem that there is something wrong with our system. The landlord has offered to look at it next Summer but my concern is now that there is a major problem slowly emerging and that we will shortly be very cold.
We've had a plumber come out and fix a problem of cold rads and when he was here he said the thermostat wasn't a problem, however he also said if we had the thermostat at 24C we would be boiling.
I have been in touch with the previous tenants who were here when the system was installed and say it's never worked properly.
If anyone can provide thoughts I would be very grateful. I would also be happy to answer any questions.
Many thanks
Last week I noticed that the temperature on the thermostat started to decline (back to 24C which took the room down to around 16). The boiler, although kicking in wasn't able to get the thermostat back to 27. We changed the boiler setting from ECO to 'snow flake' and increased the thermostat setting to 28 which it has maintained for the last few days (keeping the room at 21C). However today I noticed the temperature on the thermostat is decreasing again and the boiler is unable to get it back up. Given we are now using all the highest settings there is nothing further we can do.
The boiler is less than 12 months old and when it was installed additional rads were added to the existing one so we have a combination of 2 systems - the very old ones which use one pipe to connect them to the boiler and the new ones which have two pipes (I've done some other research on this so I think this may be significant?).
I am a tenant in France and come from Australia so know very little about gas boiler systems however it does seem that there is something wrong with our system. The landlord has offered to look at it next Summer but my concern is now that there is a major problem slowly emerging and that we will shortly be very cold.
We've had a plumber come out and fix a problem of cold rads and when he was here he said the thermostat wasn't a problem, however he also said if we had the thermostat at 24C we would be boiling.
I have been in touch with the previous tenants who were here when the system was installed and say it's never worked properly.
If anyone can provide thoughts I would be very grateful. I would also be happy to answer any questions.
Many thanks
