by johnbcnone »
Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:08 pm
On the subject of thermostats I have the following problem. I have just had an Ariston CLAS HE SYSTEM Condensing gas boiler installed. There is seperate control of water heating and space heating. I am having trouble with the room thermostat. Basically there is a large 'dead zone' on the thermostat. For instance if the thermostat is set to 18deg, the heating will come on until the thermostat switches it off at 18deg. The room temperature will then fall and the heating will not come on again until the temperature drops to about 13deg. This means that the house is getting cold again until the thermostat reactivates the heating at 13deg.
On my old boiler the thermostat had a very tight control on the boiler which was regularly switching on and off to maintain room temperature.
Is this a faulty thermostat or something to do with the system?
I suspect the engineer will replace the thermostat. If he does so it will be the third thermostat fitted to the system.