Just moved temporarily into rental accommodation. Found out (too late!) that the ground floor has four UFH zones - each with its own thermostat. Two zones are underneath thick oak floorboards - cracking insulation by those oak boards....why did they bother?
Upstairs are normal rads with TRVs plus heated towel rail in the bathroom.
So....did they zone upstairs and downstairs ? Nope
So...did they have any sort of timeswitch ? Nope
So in order for the upstairs rads to have any CH, there has to be at least one zone of UFH downstairs demanding heat so that the pump is circulating. If you don't want to use the UFh (we don't) then you are stuffed !
So it's a question of remembering to turn the stat up in one area in the evening to warm the bedrooms and bathroom up, to turn it off when you go to sleep and then if you wake up early - say 5am - to turn it back on so the bathroom warms up.
Crazy!
And on the electrical front, in the kitchen...'''What? No sockets?"
Yes, mounted underneath the wall cabinets and hidden out of sight. Only.....
Only the Numpty who fitted them, fixed them the wrong way round so that the earth is facing outermost. That would have been OK but the Numpty mounted them too close to the wall and so if you have any appliances (we do) that have moulded plugs then they can't be plugged in
So it's loads of extension leads and sockets on the very limited worksurface. Lots of water splash opportunity.
Bloody numbnuts.