Hi all - this is my first post on here and I'm hopeful I can get some much needed advice from all the experts Please excuse my ignorance in advance!
I'm having a 5m2 porch built at the front of my house and also a ground floor side extension which will create roughly 32m2 of internal floor space.
The 32m2 of the side extension will be internally divided into 3 separate rooms with rough internal floor space as follows:
Utility - 4.5m2
Dining Room - 16.8m2
Office - 10.2m2
As it will be a pitched roof over the side extension I will be trying to keep some of the internal height of the ceiling so it'll be slightly more than 2.4m in height.
Finally, I should point out that the dining room will only be used on occasion when we have guests over and the office will be used once a week on average. The utility will get more frequent use. So heating for these rooms will be as and when needed rather than more frequent like bedrooms and living room.
I have two questions I'm trying to answer:
For question 2, because we're talking about a hallway where it is generally draftier than the rest of the house and it is a smaller floor area, will UFH do the job? On the one hand if it works I feel like it would give the hallway a constant warmth which would be great. On the other hand I don't want a scenario where the drafty nature of a hallway never allows the UFH to properly heat it even when on for long periods.
Apologies for the long post but I hope I can get some guidance here to help make my mind up!
TIA!
I'm having a 5m2 porch built at the front of my house and also a ground floor side extension which will create roughly 32m2 of internal floor space.
The 32m2 of the side extension will be internally divided into 3 separate rooms with rough internal floor space as follows:
Utility - 4.5m2
Dining Room - 16.8m2
Office - 10.2m2
As it will be a pitched roof over the side extension I will be trying to keep some of the internal height of the ceiling so it'll be slightly more than 2.4m in height.
Finally, I should point out that the dining room will only be used on occasion when we have guests over and the office will be used once a week on average. The utility will get more frequent use. So heating for these rooms will be as and when needed rather than more frequent like bedrooms and living room.
I have two questions I'm trying to answer:
- What type of heating solution should I install for the three rooms in the side extension?
- I have a small existing radiator in the hallway which doesn't work to heat the hallway so do I replace it with a bigger conventional radiator, install wet underfloor heating or a vertical radiator?
For question 2, because we're talking about a hallway where it is generally draftier than the rest of the house and it is a smaller floor area, will UFH do the job? On the one hand if it works I feel like it would give the hallway a constant warmth which would be great. On the other hand I don't want a scenario where the drafty nature of a hallway never allows the UFH to properly heat it even when on for long periods.
Apologies for the long post but I hope I can get some guidance here to help make my mind up!
TIA!