Posted 16th Nov
Our living room radiator seems to shut itself off after a while when the other radiators are still heating. It has a TRV, which is turned to maximum.
I find that to get it started again, I have to turn the TRV off, then back on to full and also the boiler off and then back on.
Is there a problem with the TRV? It seems to be only this radiator in the house that is behaving strangely.
I find that to get it started again, I have to turn the TRV off, then back on to full and also the boiler off and then back on.
Is there a problem with the TRV? It seems to be only this radiator in the house that is behaving strangely.
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In the short term, you can then turn down the lockshield on the other side to control the flow (if the room gets too hot)
I'm talking about the radiator and not your husband
this would indicate that the boiler switches off because it thinks the house has reached the correct temperature but in my case, the boiler stays on and the other radiators in the house stay on, just this one in the living room, which is the biggest radiator in the house.
So did mine. Exactly same problem as I said I had to turn hall radiator off for my living room to stay on. I had that problem until Sunday don't know but for some reason I switched hall one off and surprisingly my living room came back on it's been fine since then
do you have to keep your hall radiator off or could you turn it back on again after that?
To be honest I haven't tried it. I'm not home tonight but I'll try tomorrow and I'll let you know
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Deja Vu
If so, the TRV is doing its job. It senses the living room has reached the required temperature so switches off the radiator.
If you do not have additional heating in the living room then investigate as per other suggestions
strangely enough, this seems to have some sort of effect as now the living room radiator gets really hot, whereas previously it never got extremely hot! i only turned the radiator in the hall off for about 5 minutes before I put it back on so it is on again now. so it seems to be that you don't need to keep that radiator off, just turn it off and then on again after a short break. so weird.
i looked up how a radiator valve works and it seems to regulate itself through either an expanding liquid or wax. i didn't know they had a thermometer inside them, i just thought they only turn the radiator valve!
there is a TV cupboard in front of the radiator and so the TRV is hidden away by the TV unit. i am thinking it doesn't sense the room temperature correctly as it is hidden away and so it gets very hot behind the TV cupboard and thinks the rest of room is very hot, and so turns the radiator valve off. i have therefore moved the cupboard a little bit so that the TRV is fully exposed to the room and so hopefully this will help solve the problem as it may now be able to detect the room temperature better.
Thank you I'll try it. Can't explain it
You didn't know that a thermostatic radiator valve had a thermostat in them? Seriously?
I’m more shocked you didn’t already know the answer to your questions