Wireless thermostat

[akpolaris]

I have a shop that I am building a small apartment in. Radiant heat from a toyo boiler in the cement slab supplied bu a Toyo boiler. 3 zone manifold; 1 for slab, 1 for residential water heater and the 3rd designated for the 2 baseboards in the apartment. I neglected to run any wire for a thermostat in the apartment. I believe that a remote thermostat is in the future. If I do this I believe that I need a thermostat in the location to be heated and something to actuate the valve back at the manifold, correct? Any recommendations?? thank you

 

[fitter30]

Have wifi? Honeywell T9 thermostats with remote sensors. Stats by boiler, battery sensors in spaces.

 

[akpolaris]

All the info I found on the thermostats talks only about the thermostat and how to wire them in. Is this possible without any wires? And what actuated the valve at the boiler to provide hot water to the baseboards? Wireless, to me, means no wires. Wireless communications between thermostat and the valve. Is that possible?

 

[chinboys]

What do you want to do short of running thermostat wiring from the boiler to the apartment?
Do you have a multi-zone controller?
There are wire-free (wireless) thermostats that send control signals to a receiver hooked up to the boiler.
This means the apartment heating requirements are met before the rest of the shop.

Do you have thermostat wiring to the main shop?
You can buy from many manufacturers thermostats that have remote sensors.
One or more of these sensors will communicate with the mothership thermostat and in turn, all of the sensor thermostats average their temps to get an average. I think you might be able to program the system to have a sensor's temperature take priority.

 

[nadogail]

I lived in Seward in 1960, I was the Engineer on a tug home ported at the Small Boat Harbor. We ******* next to the Motor Vessel Expansion,

I don’t recall the Winter temperature as being extreme. Your plan appears to be well thought out.

Good Luck

 

[akpolaris]

What do you want to do short of running thermostat wiring from the boiler to the apartment?
Do you have a multi-zone controller?
There are wire-free (wireless) thermostats that send control signals to a receiver hooked up to the boiler.
This means the apartment heating requirements are met before the rest of the shop.

Do you have thermostat wiring to the main shop?
You can buy from many manufacturers thermostats that have remote sensors.
One or more of these sensors will communicate with the mothership thermostat and in turn, all of the sensor thermostats average their temps to get an average. I think you might be able to program the system to have a sensor's temperature take priority.

I have found a Honeywell YTH6320R1001 that I believe meets my needs. When I closed in the walls for the apartment and sheetrocked the furnace room I overlooked the wiring needed for a thermostat in the apartment. All the walls are closed in and stuffed with rockwool. Snaking the wires now would be very difficult. I think that this Honeywell unit will work. The piece I was looking for is the interface module that actuates back at the manifold. The manifold off of the boiler is set with 3 zone controls, #3 designated for this apartment zone. The shop floor is controlled by a standard, hard wired thermostat, zone #1. Zone #2 is the water heater. From watching Youtube I think I need a transformer to get to 24 volts for the interface module . That part isn't clear on the literature I have looked at so far.

 

[akpolaris]

I lived in Seward in 1960, I was the Engineer on a tug home ported at the Small Boat Harbor. We ******* next to the Motor Vessel Expansion,

I don’t recall the Winter temperature as being extreme. Your plan appears to be well thought out.

Good Luck

No our temps here are not extreme, very temperate, rain, sleet, snow all at once sometimes. You said 1960, before the earthquake. That make you a bit long in the tooth. You would never recognize the place today

 

[chinboys]

I have found a Honeywell YTH6320R1001 that I believe meets my needs. When I closed in the walls for the apartment and sheetrocked the furnace room I overlooked the wiring needed for a thermostat in the apartment. All the walls are closed in and stuffed with rockwool. Snaking the wires now would be very difficult. I think that this Honeywell unit will work. The piece I was looking for is the interface module that actuates back at the manifold. The manifold off of the boiler is set with 3 zone controls, #3 designated for this apartment zone. The shop floor is controlled by a standard, hard wired thermostat, zone #1. Zone #2 is the water heater. From watching Youtube I think I need a transformer to get to 24 volts for the interface module . That part isn't clear on the literature I have looked at so far.

Your 3-zone controller ought to have a 110V AC to 24V AC transformer(s) built into it to power the receiver side of this thermostat.
I agree, you might need batteries or an AC transformer for the apartment's Honeywell wire-free thermostat.
You should be good to go.