00353862380126Heating Control Upgrades
Typically homeowners can reduce their energy usage by up to 20% by installing easy to use heating controls in their home and using these controls in an efficient manner. There is now grant aid available through the SEAI Better Energy Homes scheme to help you improve your home using this
measure. Adequate heating controls can help a homeowner to accurately match your space heating and hot water schedules to the working and living patterns at the house i.e. when heat and hot water are required, it is there; when it is not, it is turned off. As a minimum, your heating systems should be split into two independently controlled “zones”. They are your 'Space Heating Zone' and your 'Domestic Hot Water Zone'. This allows you to heat your domestic hot water without being forced to
turn on your space heating. Additional zones can also be put in place in large homes to split upstairs and downstairs or living areas and bedrooms.
Do I need Heating controls?
You can do a quick check on your heating control requirements by answering the simple questions below. If you answer NO to all or the majority of the below questions, it would be highly beneficial for you to install some heating controls:
- Can you heat your domestic hot water without switching on your radiators or an electric immersion heater?
- Can you turn on your heating without heating your domestic hot water?
- Can you easily adjust the heat output from radiators in the rooms you use most often?
- Have you temperature control on your boiler?
- Have you time control on your boiler that you can set for different days of the week?
- Have you a separate temperature control for your hot water cylinder?
- Have you a separate time control on your hot water cylinder?
