Thermostat sensor location in a 4 family house.

BillC007

Hi,.. For the lasr 25 years I've had a honeywell thermostat sensor in one of the apartments on the 1st floor in the living room with the actual thermostat located in the basement in a locked area.

My new issue is,..The tenants in that apartment are ocasionally using an electric personal heater in that living room location to stay extra warm which is causing my sensor to not operate correctly & not triggering my hot water heating system to turn on.

Since there are no real common areas,..Im thinking maybe one of the stair ways or basement and just calibrate it ?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

EdTheHeaterMan

Install the sensor in a different room in the building that does not have a supplemental heater. But you already know that. The hallway or common area must have a radiator that is controlled by that boiler in order to be accurate in sensing the temperature of the entire building. Perhaps you can add a small section of baseboard or a small convector or radiator (just like the ones in the apartments) that will heat just like the rest of the building. The thermostat can be one end of the hall and the radiator at the other end of the hall. (don't hang the thermostat directly above a radiator)

Other way to fix this is to make auxiliary heat in the living room where the thermostat is located a violation of the lease and grounds for eviction.

Third option is to purchase a thermostat that can accommodate more than one sensor and will average the room temperatures of all the sensors to operate the boiler.

Wcurtis

I have a Honeywell Vision Pro 8000 in my 2-story home with 3 remote sensors and can accommodate more, each sensor can be placed in auto or chosen to be the main controller over the T-stat.

I have played with these sensors in different configurations over the last 2-years and found very valuable.

T-stat has multiple setback options, (4 modes each day of week with the ability to have different temps on different days if needed) learns the heating patterns and adjusts accordingly.and will start my boiler early to the WAKE mode to ensure the desired temperature is reached by the needed time

Purchased from Amazon

Kaos

This is a common problem in multifamily with a single heat source. The nice solution I have seen to it is a properly set up outdoor reset control for the boiler. I saw this at a triplex, at first I was confused by the lack of any thermostat but than saw the reset controller in the boiler room. Seems to work great as it avoid any of these issues plus the lower operating temps mean better fuel efficiency.