Hello,
Hope this is the right area to post this. Been on the email list for a long time and just lurked unregistered on the web forums.
I am renovating our home at the moment and as part of this we have ripped out the old central heating.
Recently visited a friend who has partly converted his house to wet UFH. Very impressive.
We are first replacing two bathrooms, this will be the tester for the new system.
Control wise, I want to get my hands dirty, plus as a controls engineer in industry, it is a good chance to have a busmans holiday. I have concerns with getting a system that uses a PC to link in, as most parts of the house have a very mild level of HA, but it is all designed with ripping out when I come to move. I want to leave this system (or part of the system) in, so I want something that isn't a total unknown.
I have a Homevision that hasn't been used since my last house 4 years ago. It has 1-wire temp on board and tonnes of IO for the valves and heating. Quite simple to also interface to a web interface. Also fine to get information through to another HA system.
Also been looking at Irdratek, had a long chat with Karam the other day which was very useful. Only one way of getting remote analogue temp sensors into the system with the 4 channel input unit, I want to measure the floor temperature, as well as the room temperature. So looking at using some PT100 resistance probes to bury in the floor.
Or can I get away with measuring the return flow temperature to work out the floor temperature? Basically concerned about cost - that's an awful lot of modules out and about. It would have to have serious WAF to justify this plus we have the issues of starting with two bathrooms so can't have a "normal" module on the wall? Has anyone used a PLH001 : PIR/Light/Temp/Humidity Sensor in a bathroom?
Would love to use the 1-wire sensors, but can only integrate via a PC and XAP, so back to the issue of relying on that!
I guess that I can go down this route (non-1wire) and decommission the rest of the house leaving just the heating modules to run the heating. Plus with running it via reflex takes out the dependancy on a PC.
Am I missing anything and what other systems are other UKHA'ers using for wet ufh? Sometimes after looking at spec sheets after spec sheets, you have a feeling that you can't see the wood for the trees!
As to what actual wet system do you use.... I guess that it is another thread entirely, Have looked at Nu-Heat, Uponor and a few others.
Thanks for your time
Best Regards
Rich
Hope this is the right area to post this. Been on the email list for a long time and just lurked unregistered on the web forums.
I am renovating our home at the moment and as part of this we have ripped out the old central heating.
Recently visited a friend who has partly converted his house to wet UFH. Very impressive.
We are first replacing two bathrooms, this will be the tester for the new system.
Control wise, I want to get my hands dirty, plus as a controls engineer in industry, it is a good chance to have a busmans holiday. I have concerns with getting a system that uses a PC to link in, as most parts of the house have a very mild level of HA, but it is all designed with ripping out when I come to move. I want to leave this system (or part of the system) in, so I want something that isn't a total unknown.
I have a Homevision that hasn't been used since my last house 4 years ago. It has 1-wire temp on board and tonnes of IO for the valves and heating. Quite simple to also interface to a web interface. Also fine to get information through to another HA system.
Also been looking at Irdratek, had a long chat with Karam the other day which was very useful. Only one way of getting remote analogue temp sensors into the system with the 4 channel input unit, I want to measure the floor temperature, as well as the room temperature. So looking at using some PT100 resistance probes to bury in the floor.
Or can I get away with measuring the return flow temperature to work out the floor temperature? Basically concerned about cost - that's an awful lot of modules out and about. It would have to have serious WAF to justify this plus we have the issues of starting with two bathrooms so can't have a "normal" module on the wall? Has anyone used a PLH001 : PIR/Light/Temp/Humidity Sensor in a bathroom?
Would love to use the 1-wire sensors, but can only integrate via a PC and XAP, so back to the issue of relying on that!
I guess that I can go down this route (non-1wire) and decommission the rest of the house leaving just the heating modules to run the heating. Plus with running it via reflex takes out the dependancy on a PC.
Am I missing anything and what other systems are other UKHA'ers using for wet ufh? Sometimes after looking at spec sheets after spec sheets, you have a feeling that you can't see the wood for the trees!
As to what actual wet system do you use.... I guess that it is another thread entirely, Have looked at Nu-Heat, Uponor and a few others.
Thanks for your time
Best Regards
Rich
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