Hey all-
I'm trying to wrap my head around how to wire a new thermostat to my home heating system. My 2 story home was built in 1905 and utilizes most of the original radiators for hot water heat (which I love). However, the rear of the house was added on to some time in the past and those rooms use baseboard heaters. The main floor is the kitchen, and directly above on the second floor is the master bedroom. There are two thermostats, one in the living room and one in the kitchen, which are approximately 15 feet apart.
You can already see the problem: the radiators pump out MUCH MUCH more heat than the baseboard heaters. As such, the kitchen thermostat picks up on the heat from the rest of the main floor and has no way of truely modulating the temperature of my bedroom. I can set the living room 'stat at 72 degrees and the kitchen at 80 degrees, it still won't heat my bedroom due to placement.
My boiler is a New Yorker, model # CG40CNC-TE2. There are two water valves post-output, obviously for the two "zones" (if you can call them zones). For some reason, the installer used two different valves. Both are Honeywell, one is model # V8043E5079 and one is model # V8043E1012.
Here's my question: how do I go about making one thermostat control both zones, independent of each other? I'd like to put a wireless temperature probe in my bedroom that feeds actual readings to the 'stat, that way it can control temperature for the room that matters. I realize that this will make the kitchen hotter than need be, but that's fine.
So far, the only 'stat I've seen that can do this economically is the new Ecobee 4, which includes a separate wireless temperature probe and can control multiple zones. Where I get lost, is how to wire is all up. Do both water valves wire to a single thermostat? That doesn't seem to be the way things work. I have absolutely no HVAC exoerience but from what I've gathered I need a zone controller. However, all of these I see are designed for 3,4,5 etc. zones! I don't need all that. I just want to monitor and control one room separately from the other 90% of the house.
Am I missing something obvious?
I'm trying to wrap my head around how to wire a new thermostat to my home heating system. My 2 story home was built in 1905 and utilizes most of the original radiators for hot water heat (which I love). However, the rear of the house was added on to some time in the past and those rooms use baseboard heaters. The main floor is the kitchen, and directly above on the second floor is the master bedroom. There are two thermostats, one in the living room and one in the kitchen, which are approximately 15 feet apart.
You can already see the problem: the radiators pump out MUCH MUCH more heat than the baseboard heaters. As such, the kitchen thermostat picks up on the heat from the rest of the main floor and has no way of truely modulating the temperature of my bedroom. I can set the living room 'stat at 72 degrees and the kitchen at 80 degrees, it still won't heat my bedroom due to placement.
My boiler is a New Yorker, model # CG40CNC-TE2. There are two water valves post-output, obviously for the two "zones" (if you can call them zones). For some reason, the installer used two different valves. Both are Honeywell, one is model # V8043E5079 and one is model # V8043E1012.
Here's my question: how do I go about making one thermostat control both zones, independent of each other? I'd like to put a wireless temperature probe in my bedroom that feeds actual readings to the 'stat, that way it can control temperature for the room that matters. I realize that this will make the kitchen hotter than need be, but that's fine.
So far, the only 'stat I've seen that can do this economically is the new Ecobee 4, which includes a separate wireless temperature probe and can control multiple zones. Where I get lost, is how to wire is all up. Do both water valves wire to a single thermostat? That doesn't seem to be the way things work. I have absolutely no HVAC exoerience but from what I've gathered I need a zone controller. However, all of these I see are designed for 3,4,5 etc. zones! I don't need all that. I just want to monitor and control one room separately from the other 90% of the house.
Am I missing something obvious?