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Thinking about a Tado system, questions

8bit
8bit ✭
in General Questions & Topics

Hi, first post, please be gentle :)

I'm looking to install a Tado V3+ system (probably) to give better control over the heating in our home, as currently we only have a simple timer/programmer, not even a thermostat for the main part of the house. The heating systems we have are:

1 - Viessman combi boiler, about 11 years old, no hot water tank. Seven radiators, two heated towel rails in bathrooms. Controlled by Honeywell programmer.

2 - Dining kitchen extension with water underfloor heating. Controlled by Warmup 3ie air-sensing thermostat. This is looped and controlled independently of the main central heating in the house.

3 - 2x bathrooms have small electric underfloor systems with Warmup 3ie, floor sensors only.

4 - Garden room has small electric underfloor system with Warmup 4ie, air and floor sensors.

Assuming I go with the V3+, I'm thinking of this shopping list:

1 - Wireless Smart Thermostat Starter Kit (to replace the Honeywell programmer attached to the boiler)

2 - Add-on Smart Thermostat, wired (to replace the Warmup 3ie controlling the wet UFH in the extension)

3 - 2x 4-packs of the Smart Radiator Thermostats for the radiators around the main part of the house

Does the above all seem to fit the bill as far as the boiler-powered parts of the system go?

I'm assuming I can't do much about the electric underfloor heating systems with Tado V3+, at least officially? Is that functionality already in or likely to come to Tado X?

What about the heated towel rails in the bathrooms, they don't have thermostatically controlled radiator valves - is it safe to put wireless temp. sensors in the bathrooms?

Comments

  • Emcee
    Emcee Admin
    edited January 29

    Hello @8bit

    Sorry your post didn't get any answers.
    tado° offers compatibility checks via its chat.
    You'll first be speaking to a bot, but you can select 'talk to a person' after which point you will be forwarded to an agent who will be happy to guide you through your purchase.

  • wateroakley
    wateroakley Volunteer Moderator

    Hello @8bit Welcome. The first step is to contact Tado support as @Emcee advised.

    In principle, your shopping list appears to be a good start point.

  • 8bit
    8bit ✭

    Thanks for the responses. After a bit more digging online I went ahead and purchased the list of items above. Generally I'm happy with all of it but with two caveats - first is the wet underfloor heating in the kitchen. Tado seems to end up with large swings in temperature that the old WarmUp 3ie standalone 'stat generally kept a more consistent temperature. I'll post a separate thread on that.

    The other thing is the two heated towel rails. With all the other room radiators in the house controlled by Tado, this means that when any of those radiators are calling for heat, the towel rails are also hot because they don't have TRVs. I'm wondering if I can/should have TRVs installed on those and use them with another couple of Tado smart thermostats, but that then means having no non-TRV radiators in the whole system, which I was given to understand was a bad thing?

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