How do you prepare for cold weather?
Hello community,
Although summer is not over quite yet, cold weather will soon be upon us. As a means to help our community members prepare for this time of year, we wanted to create a thread to gather your ideas on the best ways to ensure a comfortable tado° Home throughout the 2024/25 ‘cold’ season.
In previous years, our newsletter recommended that tado° users undertake the following steps to verify their set-up was fully functional following the summer months (in order to ensure immediate access to tado° support or technicians should assistance be needed, these steps ought to be performed in anticipation of cold weather rather than when cold weather first occurs):
- Make sure your boiler is switched on.
- Open the tado° app and select the first room you want to check.
- Once in the room screen, manually boost the heating to 25 degrees using the slider.
- Touch your radiator or underfloor heating to make sure it’s getting warm.
- Turn off manual control.
- Repeat steps 2 to 5 for each room in your Home.
We are curious to know if any of you have done the above over the years. Were these steps helpful?
Are there any other tips you’d like to share? Please don’t hesitate to do so below 🙂
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Alternative is to service your boiler on a yearly basis to ensure your boiler is worker properly and all radiators are heating to the necessary temperature.
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@Emcee Nowadays, we go around the rads and valves to look for any evidence of leaks over the summer and check that the TRV pins move freely. One leaky TRV in the lounge to replace (fair enough, it's 13 years old). The Gas Safe engineer is booked in mid-September for the annual boiler service and safety check.
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Having moved in to a new build recently we are finally looking at getting smart heating to prepare for the colder months ahead.
Not had smart heating before, so am apprehensive, but Tado seems are favoured provider with the limited research done thus far
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Hello @Portlanders
Welcome to the community 🙂
Our Help Centers may be helpful to your research. We have…
- 1 Help Center for the V3+ generation
- 1 Help Center for the X generation
As these generations are not compatible, you'll have to decide which of these is best suited for your home.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with tado° support in order to perform a compatibility check with your current heating set-up. They can suggest which devices to purchase.0 -
Charge batteries for TRVs.
Make sure all radiators are bled.
Check Magnacleanse is clean.
This year at least, add extra inhibitor.
Check boiler pressure.
Perform air purge cycle.
Make sure Tado parameters are adjusted from summer settings to something suitable for autumn. I do get quite creative in my methods.
I do not test fire the heating. As we have a combi boiler I know the pump works, the boiler fires and the diverter valve functions.2 -
Central heating. What I do is turn Tado on when it gets too cold. That is pretty much it. No change in the last 4 years ;)
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I wouldn't bother, the system is useless, clunky and works when it decides to. Customer service is one of the worst ever, total useless and I'm sending all of mine back. Multiple times I've had no heat when using the app remotely even though it's showing activity, the controller is on, yet it fires the boiler when it fancies it. Sometimes resulting in a hard mains reset. Customer service taking 3 days to respond with regards to heating is not acceptable. System is junk and I'm now on a mission to make sure folks know
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- Good evening,
- How to prepare for the coming Winter? This not a fluffy PR job, so taking the question seriously, these are my thoughts to survive a Winter.
- 1. All the points raised above are valid points, but I’m hoping that we can stretch the capabilities of the current Tado eco-system, so:
- 2. When does Tado X get all the packages that I formally enjoyed with Tado V3+ please? That way, as a premium client, I can enjoy the real & perceived benefits that were there with V3+. Are you awaiting data from one winter cycle? Or has 6 months been sufficient?
3. Perceived cost savings don’t really get me excited, I know approx how many £s it takes to live in comfort any year in a large house; what I am interested in … waking up to a comfortable home rather wake up sweating because the heating kicked in 45 minutes too early; after all, we want to also do our best for our children’s planet & our wallet. I’m looking at heating that looks at the external temperature to maximise the savings over the pre-heat period without sticking your finger in the air and without having to consider weather fronts & storms in your week (there is clever software that furnishes that data, you have already proved that on a current model NB I only have knowledge of the Tado V3+ system over 4 Winters). I have just had a Apple App pop-up warning me of strong winds tomorrow.
- 4. I look forward to fewer replacements of batteries now that Tado X includes rechargeable batteries (I refer to them as pucks) found only within the Tado X Radiator Thermostats 👏? They look great and much easier for my wife to change. What is the max wh capacity of the AAAs please, will lithium batteries now not fall off a cliff when they drop below X volts sensed by the applicable Wall/Sideboard Room Sensors please 🤨 (I prefer the heat to be sensed at head level when sat down, which is why I consider the stands to be a very elegant solution to my personal needs 👏)
- 5. Also, now we are not filling sites with disposable batteries (also happy to have a conversation about rechargeable AAs reported life effectiveness within the environment of a large house with dense walls, but not here; besides we now have Tado X), what is the envisaged product life of Tado X, especially since the Tado X finally joined the club that managed to update legacy items to CSA credentials, please?
- 6. Green credentials are only effective if you look at whole life costs to the client and environment that includes but not exclusive to, manufacture in where please (I thought I saw PRC where the pucks are inserted, please correct me if I am wrong; I’ll verify but I don’t want to needlessly bend down, and SWMBO is watching TV, if this can be confirmed here) then I will withdraw this line if untrue; to continue, whole life costs also include transport costs to client and then, at EOL, safe disposal. We have, by my reckoning (not really, I looked at the App😂), 15 Tado X Radiator Thermostats (plus one to fit to downstairs utility room, especially now they are tolerant to humidity 👏, next Spring while SWMBO visits relatives while our near(ish neighbours listen to classic engineer’s Anglo-Saxon terms when hitting delicate parts). I still look twice how quickly the younger French have picked up words that allegedly rhymes with Puck (my new favourite rechargeable battery).
7. Tado X is almost a great concept for large houses as it is. I look forward to watching it become a more mature product. Naturally, if the Tado FAQs or Help Pages can answer my directed questions then I will be happy to apologise and withdraw that/those point(s), slap myself for not finding the correct articles and read them.
respectfully,
Vern
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