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RichardG63
Hi all - I'd be grateful for any advice you may have time to give me.
I've been trying to work out why my sitting room is so cold, relative to other rooms in the house.
I live in a maisonette; there are two floors. The top floor consists of a bedroom only (loft conversion) and has 2 radiators within. There is a single roomstat in the hall (lower level) with a timeclock in the kitchen. The boiler is a Worcester Greenstar 24i combi. The radiators look like the following throughout (apart from a towel rad in the bathroom):
If I set the roomstat to a high set-point, the temp in the bedroom got unbearably hot. So I closed one of the radiator valves which brought this room to a reasonable temp when the heating was on. I believe this sort of thing helps to balance a system; if a rad is getting too hot (particularly if it's higher up than others) then adjusting one of the valves so that flow of central hot water is reduced means that rad gets a little less hot and increases heat of other rads. Sorry just speaking my mind here please point out where I go wrong...
The problem is basically that the front room rads don't seem to get as hot (at least to the touch) as the other rads in the house. This front room is north facing, and recently I've had the window glass replaced with double glazing. But this has made very little difference so I can only presume that the rads aren't delivering enough heat.
It looks like the valves might be quite old, and so too the radiator designs. Do you think I should replace the rads with more modern versions and expect to see an improvement in heat output? If anyone could suggest some things to try I'd be v grateful; I'm prepared to replace the rads if that's what needs to be done in order to make the room habitable! TIA. Richard
I've been trying to work out why my sitting room is so cold, relative to other rooms in the house.
I live in a maisonette; there are two floors. The top floor consists of a bedroom only (loft conversion) and has 2 radiators within. There is a single roomstat in the hall (lower level) with a timeclock in the kitchen. The boiler is a Worcester Greenstar 24i combi. The radiators look like the following throughout (apart from a towel rad in the bathroom):
If I set the roomstat to a high set-point, the temp in the bedroom got unbearably hot. So I closed one of the radiator valves which brought this room to a reasonable temp when the heating was on. I believe this sort of thing helps to balance a system; if a rad is getting too hot (particularly if it's higher up than others) then adjusting one of the valves so that flow of central hot water is reduced means that rad gets a little less hot and increases heat of other rads. Sorry just speaking my mind here please point out where I go wrong...
The problem is basically that the front room rads don't seem to get as hot (at least to the touch) as the other rads in the house. This front room is north facing, and recently I've had the window glass replaced with double glazing. But this has made very little difference so I can only presume that the rads aren't delivering enough heat.
It looks like the valves might be quite old, and so too the radiator designs. Do you think I should replace the rads with more modern versions and expect to see an improvement in heat output? If anyone could suggest some things to try I'd be v grateful; I'm prepared to replace the rads if that's what needs to be done in order to make the room habitable! TIA. Richard
