Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:04 am
#1857491
I've just about had it up to my eyeballs with Hive, but posting here to give it one last try...
We have a Hive heating system and smart TRV on all the radiators connected to the app. We have a towel rail, but this doesn't have a TRV on it.
Obviously, being a British summer, the temperature has just crept into double digits and as a consequence we don't have our heating on at the moment.
What we want to do is have a small blast of heating mid-morning purely to get the towel-rail warm enough to dry the towels that hang on it from the morning wash (assuming we can't hang them outside, because it's raining).
I had thought that the obvious way to do this was to switch all the radiators to 'OFF' (which sets them at 7 degrees in the app) but set the main heating to 25 degrees for 30 minutes (e.g. above ambient summer temperature); my assumption was that as a consequence the towel rail - being the only element without the TRV - would heat and the rest wouldn't.
What actually happens is that all the radiators seem to heat up, which is very wasteful and not needed.
Any ideas? I was wondering whether the TRVs need to be set to 'manual' at 7 degrees, rather than 'off' (e.g. does 'off' actually mean 'turn off the smart element of the TRV' rather than 'don't heat')?
We have a Hive heating system and smart TRV on all the radiators connected to the app. We have a towel rail, but this doesn't have a TRV on it.
Obviously, being a British summer, the temperature has just crept into double digits and as a consequence we don't have our heating on at the moment.
What we want to do is have a small blast of heating mid-morning purely to get the towel-rail warm enough to dry the towels that hang on it from the morning wash (assuming we can't hang them outside, because it's raining).
I had thought that the obvious way to do this was to switch all the radiators to 'OFF' (which sets them at 7 degrees in the app) but set the main heating to 25 degrees for 30 minutes (e.g. above ambient summer temperature); my assumption was that as a consequence the towel rail - being the only element without the TRV - would heat and the rest wouldn't.
What actually happens is that all the radiators seem to heat up, which is very wasteful and not needed.
Any ideas? I was wondering whether the TRVs need to be set to 'manual' at 7 degrees, rather than 'off' (e.g. does 'off' actually mean 'turn off the smart element of the TRV' rather than 'don't heat')?