Please can someone explain thermostats to me before I have to get a divorce?

[Movinghouseatlast]

So, we have just had a new fancy thermostat installed because the old one was in the kitchen, the warmest room in the house.

This one can be put anywhere, so its currently in the sitting room. It is set at 22 degrees

Last night, all the radiators went off. My husband said it was because the sitting room had got up to 22 degrees. But the temperature on the thermostat said 20 degrees. It was so cold!

The temperature on the display has never gone above 20 degrees. So does this mean that the radiator in the sitting room is incapable of getting the room to 22 degrees? Or is it something else?

I freely admit that I have no clue about thermostats! Thanks.

Yes, we babbled the radiator. I think maybe it is too small for the room.

Honestly people, I live in a big old house. My point is that the rest of the house is, yes, too hot at 22 but the room where the thermostat is, the living room, where I sit, is 19 and feels cold. So I'm trying to understand why that is he case. I am, so sorry, too cold at 19 degrees.

Bled the radiator.

Sounds a bit like our living room. Thermal lined curtains, closed when it goes dark, and keeping the door shut seem to do the trick for us - there are three rads in the room though.

@EastCoastDamsel my DH & the electrician spent ages syncing ours up, and then fiddling to get them to talk properly (several visits) but once they were up and running it's been worth it. I think it didn't help that although he'd installed smart heating controls before it wasn't this system and it wasn't as big as ours so it was a bit of a learning curve.

Firstly a pic of your boiler timer and one of the thermostat would help. Secondly sometimes the thermostats need to have the sensors reset to read correctly. ( A quick Google search should show you how). Then if the rest of the house is getting too hot I'd suggest closing down the valves a little on those radiators a bit at a time untill those rooms are at more comfortable temperatures. The wireless thermostat should be in the room you use the most ie. Living Room. Make sure it's not tucked away in a corner or on a book shelf and not near an external wall. They need an open space to measure the temperature correctly. If the heating is going off at night you need to make sure that the separate timer is set to be on all day 24hours. The thermostat will then regulate the temperature. But if the radiator in the room isn't big enough then you may have to settle on a cooler temperature in that room untill you get a bigger radiator fitted.

Hi

As you've probably guessed there are a quite a few things which could be causing this from bleeding the radiators, and your system not being balanced to the thermostat losing communication with the boiler.

I would suggest you get a heating engineer to take a look, preferably the one who installed it as it's quite a new install. They will be able to check all these possibilities and hopefully get it sorted for you

We have to heat to 22 to be warm. Old large house. My dad's smaller more modern house doesn't need to go above 19 and it's baking.