What’s the difference between central heating thermostats and room thermostats?
Central heating thermostats are an indispensable weapon in the home owner’s arsenal against environmental waste, unnecessary expenditure – and unnecessary home maintenance. One of the most common causes of home repair is improperly used heating, which can cause warp in wooden boards partitions and beams and cracking in plaster, render and brick work. If the heating is set too high, the contrast in air temperature when it’s turned off is too much for these fragile materials to bear – resulting in the bowed beams and curled up floor boards that herald an expensive call to a builder’s contractor. Central heating thermostats allow house holders to keep their air temperature on a much more even keel – which, in turn, prevents the stretching and shrinking that plus and minus extremes usually promote.
That makes a big difference to empty houses, too – which are the double barrelled bane of every house holder’s life. Go away and you’re faced with a horrible choice. Leave the heating on and run up an intergalactic sized energy bill while you’re not even there; or turn it off and risk everything shrinking and cracking in a cold home. Not to mention the winter possibilities of frozen pipes and burst water mains, which could end up costing far more than having the heating on. Central heating thermostats mean a whole house can be regularly heated at very low temperatures – just enough to keep everything as warm as it needs to be so it doesn’t break. And not so much as to make a real impression on a quarterly energy bill. Not as much of an impression, anyway, as the bare faced greed of the major energy companies themselves. For a mere £16 per room (roughly), a person can install an array of thermostats capable of regulating household heat in such a way that heating bills become a positive pleasure (well almost) to open. When you put it like that, central heating thermostats suddenly seem like a pretty good idea.
