Who is saving money with Tado v Old systems?
I’ve just replaced a Nest thermostat with Tado v3 wireless receiver and thermostat along with smart trv on every radiator.
I only got it working to my satisfaction 3 days ago … since then i can see I am burning about £1 more of gas each day than I did before. I will be keeping an eye on this but curious who else is experiencing reductions vs additional costs after fitting this.
I will be looking to fine tune over the next few days but tbh it’s not exactly thrilling me at the moment…
Thoughts?
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Two years in with Tado. Until three weeks ago when no hot water or heating. After back and forth with Tado Help I had to buy a new receiver which meant buying a whole starter package. Had to get a plumber out to ensure the boiler wasn’t the problem as Tado suggested. Plumber back to install new receiver today. Tado did some resetting at their end and it’s sort of working but incredibly slow to react.
I’m not convinced the receiver was faulty but as it was over two years old Tado wouldn’t replace.
Tado might be a good but expensive system but after the last two weeks I’ve got to question if I should ha got rid of Hive.
Ok I live in Lincolnshire but very few plumbers here fit Tado or know much about them. If there is a problem your stuck with a painfully slow help line while you freeze.
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@gkinghrn It took three months to figure out what worked well for us. Three years later, we're still refining the schedule to suit our diaries.
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I save 30-35% in my gas usage when compared like for like against outside temperature. I have a Wireless Temperature Sensor and Smart Radiator Thermostat in each room, which didn't come cheap, but calculated my return on investment to be less than two years. A bonus is the house is more comfortable, with much more even temperatures than before
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How do you get support to answer your messages? So far - for my home - changes made by support don't work (or system works worse than before) and I have to wait many days for any reply. And if I get any it's really superficial and my suggestions are totally ignored (parts of my messages omitted by Tado representative).
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I found that if I let all our TRVs call for heat the boiler was on almost constantly. I've set the ones in the communal areas to independent and this has improved the gas consumption situation . . .
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Comparison with the median gas consumption for our Postcode and Outcode.
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In my old home, had basic trvs on half the rads and a wall stat kicking it all off. Replaced it all and we saved about 14% of heating costs over two years.
In later home, swapped a honeywell controller and uFH stats for Tado ones, bringing down costs by 19.3% over 2 years.
A great deal come from setting the plans so that the rooms with heat were the ones being used.
Third instance was using tado Trvs on their own and they were more efficient than dumb trvs, saving 6.8%pa.1 -
I've had Tado for three years. I would say it has saved me energy, but my previous setup was on a bad way, with frozen TRVs that didn't actually regulate temperature, so it was a low bar to cross.
That said, it's taken me many experiments with configuration to get things how I like them. I have only one TRV able to force the boiler to turn on (the lounge). Every other TRV is set to independent, meaning they only heat "passively" when the boiler is already running for the lounge.
A couple are actually sitting loose on purpose, serving merely as thermometers, leaving those radiators wide open at all times (save for balancing at the lockshield end). These rooms never overheat, because the radiators are a bit undersized for low flow temps, so there is no point in ever restricting flow through them beyond the balancing.
This setup means that the boiler isn't cycling on and off in dribs and drabs, one radiator at a time, but has plenty of work to do when it does come on, helping keep return temps lower on my condensing boiler for improved boiler efficiency.2
