I somehow assumed that individual room control is common nowadays. We are building with a ground source heat pump. Is that fundamentally pointless or only under certain conditions? I can't achieve a temperature difference of 5-6°C between different rooms just by the design of the underfloor heating (narrower or wider loops), can I?
Yes, common, because mathematically there is about 3% savings in heating energy. And politics only looks at these figures.
What does that mean (very roughly estimated) – in a modern house, you have about 30 euros more at the end of the year.
That thermostats are needed in every room for the individual room control + an additional control for these + meters of cables and extra slots, which have to be installed and closed again by the electrician... and behind that also the consumption of electrical energy of about 2W per thermostat actuator in operation are of little interest to most people...
But if you put it all against each other, the savings are in the per mille range...
Oh, and of course any apprentice in their second year can install an individual room control system, because if the heating circuits are not coordinated and there are hydraulic errors etc., the room controls just regulate that away and then everything works...
Without individual room control, you have to use your brain and design and install the system according to the house... and who wants to do that?
Just slap the parts on the wall... and then everything is super...