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My mother lives in a mid/late 20's building and their fancy mechanical consulting, well, consultant, company (they may have done the boiler replacement design) told the board to tell Shareholders that they should only use the valves on their two pipe system (strangely, a lot of people had 'upgraded' their radiators to convectors, probably in the 50's and 60's to make their units more modern looking) for on and off rather than modulation. I rolled my eyes at that - the perfect example would be a brutally cold sunny day with a north wind - the south half of some units would be boiling, the north half of those units would be chilly w/o heat and the north wing cold - the whole point of two-pipe is adjustability. Their excuse, I mean reasoning, was balance or pressure....

My mother being elderly likes it warmer as did my father - they replaced most of their convectors with CI radiation and always keep the living room radiator off and don't have a bedroom radiator and she's never been cold in those rooms.