MUST WATCH BEFORE CHOOSING A SMART STAT THERMOSTAT!

Please please leave the music out mate, it's difficult concentrating on the important information you're saying, really appreciate the video tho, keep up the good work. Thanks.

Having moved house several times, I found that the best thing (besides energy savings) about weather compensation and room optimization is that you don't notice it - that is until you move on to a new house with conventional on-off controls and realize immediately how very poor these controls are at maintaining a stable temperature! Since you can save money and be much more comfortable at the same time, I really don't understand why these systems are not completely standard already. I think unfortunately that's largely due to ignorance and lack of knowledge in the heating sector - many of these systems are not difficult to install and use - so it's great to see that you are spreading the word with your blog.

This whole channel is so good, technically, and so interesting. Thanks.

A great explanation. I dread explaining this to customers. When you explain that you have range rated the boiler and then start to explain open therm controls and the modulation of the boiler. You see the vacant stare looking straight through you and you know you have lost them. I can point them to this video now and they can watch it over and over!!

This was totally unexpected and incredibly helpful, thank you! So refreshing to find straightforward and valuable content

I understand all this but god help me I can’t explain in this way when facing customers questions. Brilliant 👍🏻

After a house fire I had the opportunity to replumb my house. I researched "load compensation" and got a system (Evohome/Intergas) which does it. Honestly the best decision I ever made. Plumbers will tell you about efficiency but load compensation makes your place more COMFORTABLE. In other places I used to fiddle with the thermostat every week but no more. Load compensation just makes your home more comfortable by maintaining the right temperature and my boiler just hums instead of making horrid noises. I started as a stupid "I need a 50kw boiler" customer. Now I've educated myself through these videos I see how stupid I was. I never use more than 25kw to heat my home and even in those -2 temperatures last week it used 15kw most of the time, and in the Autumn it is more like 7 kw.

Informative presentation giving easy to understand explanation of various control methods to achieve max bang for buck from your heating system. Adam has assured me that Bruce Willis will endorsing Heat Geek’s excellent advice by swinging by the stage on a Tarzan rope. Keep up the good work, love the informal, concise but fun approach to the available technology driven options.

Just for some feedback. Did anyone watch the bloopers at the end? Should I leave these in? My wife though I left it in by accident 🤣

What a surprise! I didn't expect such a thorough explanation, it really influenced my purchase decision (went for TADO). Kudos for the attention given to the audio and video production: compared to other specialised channel it's been a + 👍🏼

I've got a Vaillant Ecotech Plus 630, VRC700f controller and external weather sensor, VR920 gateway, VR50 Ambisense TRVs and VR51 temp sensors in most rooms. Expensive - Yes. Efficient - Probably Saving money - No idea Comfortable - Most definitely!! A true 'fit and forget' setup that allows separate temperature control for the rooms occupied by my elderly MIL and lower temps elsewhere.

Clearing up confusion with a thoughtfully produced video. I could direct one my customers here for a nice overview & comprehensive explanation that is talking to end users & not at them. Equally I could direct a fellow heating installer here that wants a nice overview, loving the summary of benefits of lower temps & wear & tear. I have been taling about these benefits for over a decade, but could never round it up in such a clean & concise manner.

Great video and a perfect explanation that will back up us installers and what we’re trying to achieve with our customers. 🙌🏻

We have a Worcester Bosch Greenstar 38CDi Classic ErP boiler, and currently a Hive controller, though I understand now that was far from the best option (both installed by Scottish Gas 4-5 years ago). We have a 1990 4-bed bungalow, so currently expensive to heat due to large footprint and poor insulation. I'd be interested to hear about better smart thermostat options, especially one with room/zone controls (as I tend to stay in 1 room for most of each workday until the evening). I was initially attracted to the Tado solution, but am put off by them dropping modulation control from the wireless kit.

Not a tech geek, a Reg'd Blind fairly fit pensioner. 4yrs ago needed a new boiler. Got the same national company to install it - Vaillant eco Tech 832 + a "free" TADO. No manual came with it, the electrical guy who installed it gave me a rapidfire explanation of how to work it. I told him - no comprende but reply was "every day is a school day." I sleep with my bedroom window open summer and winter and open all the other windows throughout the day as weather allows. The main radiator in the hall has the TADO temp control near it. This radiator positively glows especially when I have turned off some of the others. This leads me to think the TADO is meant to heat the whole house to a specific temp and will push this radiator to do that making the hall swelter. Prior to the TADO I had a timer and each of the thermostats on individual radiators set to my preference with no problems. Fuel bill up. Thoughts please? McIntyre

At last someone who thinks like I do, I have been fitting Vaillant or Glow worm outside weather comp systems for 11 years now, from their 1st hard wired outside sensor to the Glow worm Systempro controller, what I really like is that it was the only system control package that allowed 3 zone wireless heating and a wireless outside sensor making the install simple and compliant with Energy Efficiency regs, its been brilliant gear and I have had really good help from their tech team. At home I run underfloor heating with no blending pump downstairs as one zone and upstairs I have low temp rads with fans below that run on the same water temp as the underfloor heating in that second zone, the controls are Systempro3, wireless outside sensor, and two wireless Climapro2 room stats. I do use an unvented solar cylinder but both coils are connected to the boiler for super fast reheat times, in fact the high performance shower can not depleted the hot water store as it recovers in hot water priority faster than can be used, I am saving over £300 a year, plus its on from October until May. keep up the good information on here, its great.

Well presented mate, miles ahead of other heating engineer brethren.

Another excellent video, well done. Funny you should say that about Evohome... I found my own at home asking for high temperatures more often than I thought it should so I limited the flow temp to 50°c and it works a lot better.

I thought you weren't going to mention Tado. Such a great and aesthetically pleasing controller. Great vid

Nice. I love that you don't just pick a product and shill why it's great. You stay concept rather than product. I am creating a DIY heating controller with multizone presence awareness. "Load balanced" and "Cyclic". I am battling "selfish heating" of zones. The living room might ask for heat and be given it, but the bedroom, very nearly at it's minimum sits unheated. I am aiming on intelligent "sympathetic" heating. If one zone demands heat, could any other zones use some anyway? The tricky part for me I have no way to trace "why" a demand for heat was raised, only that it was. To go modulating, rather than cyclic, I just need a trust worthy gadget to hook up to my boiler. The plan being to base the flow temp on the differential between the current and the target and pre-planning warmup based on ambient and differential. No bloody cloud. Want my heating to work when the internet goes out due to an admin screw up that takes 10 days to fix.