Diagonal Heating Zones!!

[justasking]

Hope someone can help.

I have dual zone heating in my new build. I have a TPOne-M downstairs and a TPOne-B in the master bedroom upstairs. When I turn on the heating using the downstairs TPOne-M it heats up half of the ground floor, kitchen/diner, hallway and then 2 of the bedrooms upstairs (diagonally upstairs, not the bedrooms directly above the kitchen/diner). If I then turn on the heating in the master bedroom using the TPOne-B in that room, it heats up that room and all the rooms on that side of the house, but not two of the rooms on the opposite side. It also then heats up the living room downstairs which is diagonally positioned to the master bedroom. How do I change this so that it's a simple choice between upstairs (one zone) and down stairs (second zone)

so the downstairs is two large rectangles, one is a kitchen/diner the other a living room (both the same size), split by a hallway (narrower rectangle) and stairs leading up.

the upstairs is 2 bedrooms above the living room and another 2 above the kitchen/diner with a family bathroom over the downstairs hallway.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Ceiling will likely have to come down

 

[king of pipes]

What ever needs doing then its the developers responsibility they should instruct their heating contractors to correct the mistake ? , They are often slow to react to the problems be persistent but polite you have done well to diagnose the issue , are the manifolds visible or accessable? can you see the motorised valves with possibly a silver box on top ? a few pictures may help if the contractor has access to the manifolds? it could be quite simple to swap 4 pipes over once identified, or it may mean removing a floor covering and taking up a section of floor for access, worst case it's a section of ceiling may need to be removed. Regards kop

 

[justasking]

What ever needs doing then its the developers responsibility they should instruct their heating contractors to correct the mistake ? , They are often slow to react to the problems be persistent but polite you have done well to diagnose the issue , are the manifolds visible or accessable? can you see the motorised valves with possibly a silver box on top ? a few pictures may help if the contractor has access to the manifolds? it could be quite simple to swap 4 pipes over once identified, or it may mean removing a floor covering and taking up a section of floor for access, worst case it's a section of ceiling may need to be removed. Regards kop

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Unfortunately, looking at those photos the floor/ceiling would need to be removed for access.

 

[justasking]

Unfortunately, looking at those photos the floor/ceiling would need to be removed for access.

...new builds....

 

[justasking]

out of interest can you see any other mistakes they need to correct.

 

[justasking]

...and haven't mentioned it so far, but thanks for all the info from everyone.

 

[Deleted member 120897]

out of interest can you see any other mistakes they need to correct.

Nothing jumps out, but I don’t have my unvented qualification, so maybe someone else can spot something.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Looks ok but a question would be what type of plastic pipe have they used for the d2 / unvented safety discharge

Needs to be mupvc or pushfit

Can’t be normal waste pipe eg abs / pvc

 

[justasking]

Looks ok but a question would be what type of plastic pipe have they used for the d2 / unvented safety discharge

Needs to be mupvc or pushfit

Can’t be normal waste pipe eg abs / pvc

Thanks could you rephrase that with red tank , white tank, left or right...about the level of my experience so I can point it out to them, thank you...

 

[ShaunCorbs]

yes not a problem

White pipe coming out the floor plastic around 11/2 dia

3rd from the right going to the left

 

[justasking]

Also towards the top of the tank where there is a red "button" below a grey "button" on the copper pipe is some dried green liquid (can see it in the photo if you zoom in) is this normal?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

That would be flux hot water and a green and yellow scrubbing should take it off

 

[justasking]

Have reported it to the developer, another question and apologies in advance if it sounds strange or the answer is obvious.

If i set the heating to 19 degrees on the TPOne and the temperature is 18.0 the TPOne make a click sound, a radiator symbol appears and this causes the boiler to fires up and the radiators get hot the boiler then switches off once the radiator symbol disappears on the TPOne.

However every time the temperature drops to 18.5 the TPOne make a click sound, the symbol appears and the boiler fires up, there is a click sound from the boiler and the sound of gas burning the ENTIRE time the heating symbol is on the TPOne. In our previous house with an older system and a megaflo tank, I never recall the boiler firing up every single time. Is this how newer systems work. On occasion within 30 minutes the boiler fires up several times, isn't there meant to be a store of water somewhere or is this entirely normal for a 2 zone system. The only difference in the old house was the make of the tank (megaflo) and boiler from my inexperienced eyes! It's really annoying and surely not good for the boiler...?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

One of your heating eg rads is calling for heat eg it shouldn’t happen let’s say if you turn the stats down to 16 once the house is heated