Assuming the heat loss figures are accurate, the radiator sizings look sensible.  We have Flow Regulating Valves (FRVs) installed on almost all our radiators.  They make it very easy to balance the flow across all the radiators.  I wonder whether they would be prepared to install them?

I am not sure whether it's OK to have TRVs as well as FRVs on bedroom radiators.  Hopefully, someone else can advise.

We are finding that upstairs is about 1.0-1.5C higher than downstairs.  I am not sure whether that is just natural stratification with the warm air rising from downstairs.  So far, we are just running all our bedroom TRVs wide open.  We find the bed is a bit cool at the beginning of the night, but we wake up a bit too warm.  That may be due to our rather old Tempur foam mattress.  Apparently, the latest ones breathe and release heat better.  Still, it is really nice to be able to go downstairs and make a cup of tea without need to wear a dressing gown!
  

Good point about the FRVs, @grahamf. Renewable Heating Hub members get 10% off by using the discount code RHHFRV10 at checkout, if you buy from Firepower.

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We are finding that upstairs is about 1.0-1.5C higher than downstairs

So why not just turn down the frvs on these radiators?  There is nothing sacrosanct about the 'design' flow rate 

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Will the bedrooms be too warm? Ideally we want to run the heat pump 24/7, with a small setback overnight.

If bedrooms are too warm just reduce the flow rate through them by turning down the lsvs (or frvs if you can get them fitted)  This reduces the average rad temp this reducing the heat emitted.  That's what I and others have done.  

@jamespa Thanks, I'm assuming as I'll have a decent volume of around 120ltrs + pipework, the reduced flow shouldn't make much of a difference and better than allowing the TRVs to take over too much?

With the frvs, I assume looking at the blurb, they just make the balancing easier? 

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@jamespa Thanks, I'm assuming as I'll have a decent volume of around 120ltrs + pipework, the reduced flow shouldn't make much of a difference and better than allowing the TRVs to take over too much?

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With the frvs, I assume looking at the blurb, they just make the balancing easier? 

Trvs switch the flow off altogether so anything which reduces flow rather than switching it off is better from a flow perspective.

Frvs are as you say sold to help with balancing.  However given what they do is adjust the flow rate, they can be turned down or up from the 'design' setting thus doing the same job as lsvs but with better control.  Another way to look at it is that they can be used to balance the rads for equal room temp (or desired temp differences) as opposed to equal deltaT.

@jamespa 

After months of research, that is my understanding, that you ideally don't want to remove a radiator from the system completely (the trv switching it off), as you want to keep as much of the entire system as possible flowing.

These frvs do look to be a better way than trial an error with a standard lock shield.

I assume you'd want the whole system balanced at point of install, that all radiators heat evenly.

Then as time goes by and you get a better idea of how each room heats up, you can reduce the flow to some rooms that may have a tendency to overheat, which will be pretty straightforward and more accurate with a frv.

Are these radiator frvs the same as what is used with underfloor heating?

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@jamespa 

After months of research, that is my understanding, that you ideally don't want to remove a radiator from the system completely (the trv switching it off), as you want to keep as much of the entire system as possible flowing.

These frvs do look to be a better way than trial an error with a standard lock shield.

I assume you'd want the whole system balanced at point of install, that all radiators heat evenly.

Then as time goes by and you get a better idea of how each room heats up, you can reduce the flow to some rooms that may have a tendency to overheat, which will be pretty straightforward and more accurate with a frv.

You are spot on.

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Are these radiator frvs the same as what is used with underfloor heating?

I don't know TBH as I don't have them, they weren't available when my heat pump was fitted.  They look that way though!