We've just had a Vaillant 830 installed with radiators upstairs and a single zone ufh manifold downstairs. Plumber can't do the wiring so I'm trying to figure out what's going on before I get someone else in. Everything I've read tells me I should be seeing 2 zone valves but this isn't the case. Without the zone valves how are our 2 thermostats going to work??
Also, where is your electricity meter? It seems quite far from your consumer unit? Is that just a temporary location?
Electricity meter is outside, front of house. That consumer unit is old, but the new one will be a bit closer to the manifold.
Hi It does look like you need 2 zone valves, one for rads upstairs and the other for ufh, also you can fit actuators to control the 4 ufh zones, zone valve is very easy to wire up, a lot easier than mid position, most installer or electricians and capable of wiring it all up, it’s just some fitters don’t like doing the ‘electrics’ good luck peter
Hopefully you have a switch fuse after the meter? It looks like you have a good length of armoured cable to the consumer unit and could probably be shortened to the new location.
Thanks mate, where would these be installed? If the valves aren't present does that mean everything is currently on one loop?
Hi At some point, the flow pipe will have a tee fitted and one will feed the rads and one feed the ufh, So one 2 port zone valv on each pipe, consideration must be given to the return pipe work , A experienced fitted will soon figure it out ! Peter
Ok so looking at the pipework in those pics that tee is probably underneath my newly tiled bathroom floor. Shouldn't he have Tee'd off right near the boiler so it's actually near the wiring box etc?
Before I have a panic attack at the thought of ripping out the entire bathroom, can I fit one zone valve next to the manifold for the UFH and use programmable TRVs for the upstairs rads?
The zone valves don’t need to be next to each other. One could be at the manifold and the other could be on the pipe that goes to upstairs but before it splits to any radiators.The cables would just get extended. This ain’t ideal though as it can make fault finding difficult for others in the future especially if you move out and the valves are hidden away. Also that magnetic filter is in the incorrect place.