Using radiator valves to adjust temp for each room

[ProfessorDent]

Hi, has anyone tried this? I have Googled it, and found one from Hamilton Gas Products but have never seen anyone use these or any others. Surely it would invaluable, so when the heating comes on you could, say, warm the bathroom up for the hour before you use it in the morning, or the loo, but not at any other time you want the central heating to come on.

Okay, you can sometimes run around turning the valves on and off but it is such a fiddle.

Any thoughts? Do they really attach to any kind of radiator?

We have them on all rads in the house except for the one nearest the thermostat as that rad controls whether or not the heating is on.

They're great. I have our bedroom ones set low.

I'm assuming you're meaning thermostatic radiator values? Aka TRVs.

Or is it some new fangled thing you're referring to?

I've had these since we moved here, 14 years ago. I set them twice a year, I couldn't be bothered to do them all the time.

We just have trvs.

programmable radiator controls have been around a while, we haven't used them but have thought about installing a couple of them. we weren't sure they give a great benefit though because the heating still has to be on for them to work so cant see that it would actually save us any money.

Oh I see, it's A New Thing.

TRVs work well.

Well, that is what I meant I guess, Thermostat Radiator Valves (TRV). Electronic ones are best, but I have just read a snippy take on it on the Telegraph website so I am undecided. It says you can't have it where the thermostat is, or in the bathroom, so that is a bummer.