It shouldn’t go lower than that during winter else you could risk bursting pipes.
Just twist the knob between 3 and 5 depending how warm you want the room to be.
The radiators are filled with hot water. In bigger cities this is district heating which you don’t pay for per litre but some fixed tariff.
They get filled with bubbles over time so if they don’t warm up you can ask the housing company or landlord to have them ventilated. This is standard maintenance and should not cost anything. You don’t want to do this yourself as it’s pressurized and if you do it wrong you can get water accident.
You can keep it at max but it might not get warm still.
Don’t put things in front of the radiator or something warm next to the module in the picture. It contains a temperature sensor and you don’t want to think it’s warmer then it is.
Int the winter it’s a good idea to put blankets in doors in case you have problems with draft to keep warm air from leaking out. If it’s really cold you can do it in windows too.
When ventilating you want to do it quickly as possible to exchange air but not cool down walls.
Not sure how much of this you knew 🙂
In my apartment those switches are kind of glued to a certain position, you can’t rotate it without force and that doesn’t feel natural to do. But that said you can adjust the level of heating from that switch if it’s not glued like mine :3
Remember to calibrate that thing
Thats the thermostat for that spesific radiator, and you can adjust the warm waterflow with it. The range is not that big only about 2 or 3 degrees. If you live in an appartment complex there is central heating, and the temperature of the water that is circulating the system is regulated by outside temperature.
Room temperature should be atleast +17C or otherwise it’s a health hazard. Usually room temperature is somewhere near +22C but you might like it to be a bit colder in the bedroom, so you can adjust thermostat in that rooms radiator.
Make sure you release the air in the radiator if it just gets partly hot on the radiator, e.g. right side is hot and left is cold, then there’s a lot of air in the radiator.
On the other side of the valve there’s a some small valve what you can open with a key and slowly release air.
Remember that when the heating is finally turned off you need to open the valve. It may get stuck otherwise. So, when air gets warmer and you turn the radiator down and down, remember to open it once the hot water stops circulating in the building. If things go really smoothly, you won’t need to touch it as the buildings heat exchanger will change flow. But if you leave it in the ‘off’ position for the whole summer.. it may not open in the autumn. In that case the knob will turn but the valve that it adjusts won’t move and you won’t get any heat.
Bigger number is higher temperature. You can rotate it by hand.
To clarify, the water circulating radiators are usually pre-adjusted to a fixed value which is supposed to keep the room at recommended temperature at all weather confitions. This thermostate is basically for adjusting the radiator when there is another active heat source in the room, like an oven when cooking.
Good practice is to rotate those from end to end once a year so the moving parts don’t seize
Twist it
Pull the plastic cover off and there should be two metallic stopper rods inside. Remove those stoppers and you can use the whole adjustment range.
See, you do the twist and shout. First you twist the knob so that a larger number is on top and you’re warm. Then, later on, you shout when the heating company sends you the bill.
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It shouldn’t go lower than that during winter else you could risk bursting pipes.
Just twist the knob between 3 and 5 depending how warm you want the room to be.
The radiators are filled with hot water. In bigger cities this is district heating which you don’t pay for per litre but some fixed tariff.
They get filled with bubbles over time so if they don’t warm up you can ask the housing company or landlord to have them ventilated. This is standard maintenance and should not cost anything. You don’t want to do this yourself as it’s pressurized and if you do it wrong you can get water accident.
You can keep it at max but it might not get warm still.
Don’t put things in front of the radiator or something warm next to the module in the picture. It contains a temperature sensor and you don’t want to think it’s warmer then it is.
Int the winter it’s a good idea to put blankets in doors in case you have problems with draft to keep warm air from leaking out. If it’s really cold you can do it in windows too.
When ventilating you want to do it quickly as possible to exchange air but not cool down walls.
Not sure how much of this you knew 🙂
In my apartment those switches are kind of glued to a certain position, you can’t rotate it without force and that doesn’t feel natural to do. But that said you can adjust the level of heating from that switch if it’s not glued like mine :3
Remember to calibrate that thing
Thats the thermostat for that spesific radiator, and you can adjust the warm waterflow with it. The range is not that big only about 2 or 3 degrees. If you live in an appartment complex there is central heating, and the temperature of the water that is circulating the system is regulated by outside temperature.
Room temperature should be atleast +17C or otherwise it’s a health hazard. Usually room temperature is somewhere near +22C but you might like it to be a bit colder in the bedroom, so you can adjust thermostat in that rooms radiator.
Make sure you release the air in the radiator if it just gets partly hot on the radiator, e.g. right side is hot and left is cold, then there’s a lot of air in the radiator.
On the other side of the valve there’s a some small valve what you can open with a key and slowly release air.
Remember that when the heating is finally turned off you need to open the valve. It may get stuck otherwise. So, when air gets warmer and you turn the radiator down and down, remember to open it once the hot water stops circulating in the building. If things go really smoothly, you won’t need to touch it as the buildings heat exchanger will change flow. But if you leave it in the ‘off’ position for the whole summer.. it may not open in the autumn. In that case the knob will turn but the valve that it adjusts won’t move and you won’t get any heat.
Bigger number is higher temperature. You can rotate it by hand.
To clarify, the water circulating radiators are usually pre-adjusted to a fixed value which is supposed to keep the room at recommended temperature at all weather confitions. This thermostate is basically for adjusting the radiator when there is another active heat source in the room, like an oven when cooking.
Good practice is to rotate those from end to end once a year so the moving parts don’t seize
Twist it
Pull the plastic cover off and there should be two metallic stopper rods inside. Remove those stoppers and you can use the whole adjustment range.
See, you do the twist and shout. First you twist the knob so that a larger number is on top and you’re warm. Then, later on, you shout when the heating company sends you the bill.