Greetings –
I have an issue with a house with in-floor heat. One of the floors has only one thermostat, and it’s poorly placed. Heat from the kitchen, primarily from a 4 ft. refrigerator, reaches the thermo rather than cooler air from a large bank of windows in another area. Heat drifting up a stairwell from the floor below also circulates past this thermostat.
End result … kitchen side of the floor is toasty while the other end is cool, and you never get that nice “warm floor” sensation.
Does anyone make a thermostat with a remote reading sensor, which will send a signal to the wall-mounted unit? That would allow me to place a sensor nearer the window area, and solve this problem very nicely.
Thanks for any help.
Bruce
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OK, just answered my own question, or part of it, anyway. Found 5 or 6 different wireless thermostats, and found that they're also real pricey. Next question ... any experience with which one(s) are both reliable and maybe even somewhat more affordable than the others?
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Sounds like you have other problems.
Why should one side of the floor that is on one thermo be cooler than the otherside?
Eric
I Love A Hand That Meets My Own,
With A Hold That Causes Some Sensation.
The floor is not cooler on one side. The point is, the warm end of the floor, with the kitchen and rising heat from the stairwell, prevents the thermostat from kicking in unless it's it's set high, like 72 degrees. Consequently, the entire floor feels the same, and the room temperature at the end of the floor with all the windows is cooler. If the thermo is turned up high enough to kick in, everything is just fine, except that the kitchen end then becomes way too warm. The 4 loops/actuators on that thermo all work just fine.The High Desert Group LLC
There is another website about heating and cooling.............c'mon guys!!!
Still say you got issues............design issues, placement of thermostat.
EricI Love A Hand That Meets My Own,
With A Hold That Causes Some Sensation.
Never said I didn't have design issues. If I didn't, I wouldn't be writing. Is the thermo in the wrong place? Yup. Would that floor of the house been better off with two zones? Yup.
But when that zone is activated, the floor heats evenly. The issue is that one end of that floor produces heat from secondary sources (kitchen and stairwell), and the other loses heat via a wall of windows facing a view.
Not hard to understand.The High Desert Group LLC
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Maybe you've already ruled this out...but could you fish another t-stat wire in the RIGHT location and use that new location as your sensor location?
Do you have/could you install flow controls on the manifold to control the flow to the floor section that gets too warm? Maybe that would trick the system into responding to the cold area without over heating the floor section?
That last seems to be doing the trick in a small section of my living room floor that overheats.
Tought about fishing a wire first thing, but given the route I'd have to take, it's not a good option.
Your second idea has possibilities, though. I can set the thermo higher, but limit the flow in the already warm area. Worth a try.
Thanks.
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Bruce, you could post your question here, these guys are great. http://forums.invision.net/index.cfm?CFApp=2
Thanks for the tip. Been there before, but I had lost the link.The High Desert Group LLC
Just a thought to add -
I wonder if a ceiling fan would circulate the air a bit and help with your problem.
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Got a 56" slow turning fan, reversed to blow upward. It does help move the air some, but tends to only circulate the air in a loop on the cooler half of the floor.The High Desert Group LLC
You could control the floor with a slab sensor instead of a thermostat.