Best setup for single room, 2 radiators on separate plumbed heating zones?
My house has an S Plan Plus central heating setup, with 2 zones plus hot water i.e. 3 separate valves. Mostly this is upstairs on one zone, and downstairs on one zone. I realise this might be unusual, but my lounge has 2 radiators and they are each on different zones.
Why it has been plumbed like this is beyond me, maybe its some kind of failsafe in case a valve fails as the lounge is the only room that has 2 radiators.
My Tado setup is an extension kit downstairs which does the downstairs (and one of the lounge radiators) and a wired smart thermostat upstairs running as a zone controller which does the upstairs (and the other radiator). All radiators have smart TRVs and some rooms including the lounge have a separate wireless temperature sensor.
My question is how do I efficiently set up my lounge? If I divide it into 2 rooms and fit 2 wireless temperature sensors next to each other I can then duplicate the heating schedules in the app which I think might be the best workaround, but I'm going to struggle to get Alexa to set both rooms (or more accurately both sides of the same room) when I say "Alexa, set the Lounge to 21 degrees".
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@number43 Hello. Trying to get the two rads on the two zones (pipework) to work together nicely is going to be a challenge. In principle, I would suggest that you rewire the two zone valves to operate together as a single zone from one Tado zone controller. Then the two lounge TRVs can be set in the same Room and will work together. The other rooms and hot water shouldn’t see any difference. Unless you have a large home with lots of rooms and rads that’s probably the easiest way to give control.
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