Climate control, if you have central heating in your apartment, but want comfort

If you have central heating installed in your apartment, you can deploy climate control and, significantly increasing the level of comfort, save up to 70% of heat.

 

This applies to apartments where heat from central networks is supplied in excess, but it also happens the other way around, when the apartments are quite cold. An apartment heat meter will help control heating volumes, but not increase the temperature in the room. For these purposes, we recommend an electrode boiler that is inexpensive to install and operate, which will be connected as a backup heat source. This will be discussed in the next publication. Now we will talk about a fundamental decision on how to organize climate control if the apartment has central heating.

 

Is it possible to have climate control if there is central heating in the apartments?

In combination with a heat meter you can install weather regulator. It will adjust the heating circuit depending on your needs. Many will say that for this, a heat meter with a built-in temperature sensor that limits the supply of coolant and adjustable thermostats on batteries are sufficient (see illustration). 

Some thermostats also support touch mode and are configured from a mobile device using a WI-FI repeater, and ALEXA voice control is also available. However, their functions are not scalable to control heating circuits. A practically smart home with thermostats is a truncated solution for increasing comfort in apartments, again with sufficient heat in the central heating radiators. Thermostats are installed on new types of radiators and are not effective in cast iron models due to the complexity of installation.

 

Weather regulator PLUM

 

The weather controller can also monitor the temperature in the room if you have a backup electric boiler connected for heating underfloor heating and additional heating of the radiator circuit. Installing a heat meter would also be the right idea; in combination with climate control based on a weather controller, you can adjust the room temperature, raise or lower it. Thus, select the appropriate level of municipal heat consumption and, if necessary, automatically connect the backup boiler using the control system.

 

All this will be done automatically, and the PLUM weather controller supports:

• WI-FI and transmits data to the network if there is an Internet module;
• There are web and mobile applications for heating control;
• Heating scenarios are supported in combination with sensor functionality;
• there are touch panels for easy installation and control of parameters;
• sensors are available in wired and wireless versions;
• The weather controller controls the heat supply depending on the outside temperature. If it drops, but heating is not provided, the backup boiler will automatically connect;
• a backup electrode boiler (does not require registration) can also heat water if there is an indirect heating boiler, and this will also be controlled by a weather regulator, as well as heated floors with an independent circuit from the central heating;
• control of summer/winter modes.

The main task of the programmer, also known as a weather controller and microcontroller, for central heating in an apartment is to automatically connect additional heat sources and control the useful heat consumption. This results in significant savings.

 

What do you need to know when installing a heat meter?

The device is installed by a specialized organization licensed by city heating networks, and after installation it is sealed. The heat meter is entered into the State Register of Measuring Equipment (and will have the corresponding number of the State Standard of Ukraine). In addition to riser meters, there are also heat meters that are installed on batteries (tachometer and ultrasonic). They are cheaper and easier to install, since they are not demanding on the length of the “calming sections”.

Check with your OSBB regarding the installation of electric boilers how difficult it is to make an individual project for changing the heating system of an apartment if the boiler is connected to the central heating distribution. If difficulties arise, make independent heating circuits and water heated floors - they last longer and do not create additional electromagnetic background. The weather controller will successfully regulate both heating systems as shown in the picture above.

 

Climate control from a home’s pellet boiler can be integrated into a single system

If your utility purchases a pellet boiler for heating, climate control will be available as an option. An approximate diagram of the boiler room deployment is shown in the illustration. You can manage scenarios using touchpadinstalled in the apartment. Talk to OSBB management about this topic, you you will save significantly.