How do you prepare for cold weather?

Emcee
Emcee Admin
in General Questions & Topics

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):

  1. Make sure your boiler is switched on.
  2. Open the tado° app and select the first room you want to check. 
  3. Once in the room screen, manually boost the heating to 25 degrees using the slider. 
  4. Touch your radiator or underfloor heating to make sure it’s getting warm.
  5. Turn off manual control. 
  6. 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 🙂

Comments

  • royi
    royi ✭✭

    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.

  • wateroakley
    wateroakley Volunteer Moderator
    edited September 1

    @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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