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Central heating in my building

Started by kwak2827
over 13 years ago
Posts: 1
Member since: Jan 2013
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Hello, I am a land lord. I own a building with central heating. It's a mix used building with a store first floor and 3 apts on top. The store has it's separate heating system but the apts has one huge boiler and heating system. In the future I want to divide the heating and boiler for the 3 apts so they can have control over the heating themselves. Currently, what I do is I have 3 separate thermostats in the basement and it controls for the 3 apts. Because the thermostats is in the basement it goes by room temperature of the basement. So sometimes the apts can be hot but because the thermostats is in the basement it can be cold in the basement and the heating keeps working. I was wondering if there is a way to have the thermostats put up in the apts instead.
Response by uptown_joe
over 13 years ago
Posts: 293
Member since: Dec 2011

Sure -- talk to your heating contractor about installing separate thermostats tied to valves that will control the steam (or water) into each apartment. Assuming the piping is already laid out in a way conducive to that setup, this will be the most flexible and give each tenant better control. The boiler then needs to be controlled based on the demand from any of the three thermostats/zones.

Alternatively you could have them put in a simpler system of three digital temperature sensors that would average the apartment temperatures so that one thermostat could control the boiler based on the average.

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Response by glamma
over 13 years ago
Posts: 830
Member since: Jun 2009

You'd probably get a lot more responses if you made the first sentence of your post the title instead.

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Response by MAV
over 13 years ago
Posts: 502
Member since: Sep 2007

Yes, boilers have come a long way in 100 years. The heat sensor should absolutely not be in the basement.

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Response by kharby2
over 13 years ago
Posts: 279
Member since: Oct 2009

My building was able to instll wireless sensors in the apartments.

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