|!Martin Pentreath wrote: |!> On 1 May, 22:43, John Nagelson wrote: |!>> Where is the best place to position radiators. I have always |!>> maintained it is on internal walls, because then the heat energy |!>> actually heats the air in the room before going out of the window, and |!>> you don't throw half of it out of the window before it does any good. |!>>
|!>> Am I right? |!>>
|!>> And does the correct answer change depending on climate? |!>>
|!>> Cheers, |!>>
|!>> John |!> |!> The slightly counter-intuitive theory is that it's better under the |!> window. Otherwise you tend to get a much greater temperature gradient |!> across the room - around the rad will be nice and cosy, by the window |!> will be icy. |! |!I would think that with double glazing the effect is much less of an |!issue than without, too... I daresay that if all windows had been double |!glazed when central heating first came along, the habit of positioning |!radiators in this way would never have happened.
Also in the bad old days, walls would also not be insulated as they are now, so IMO it is still worth putting radiators under windows because they still let more heat out of the room than any other common feature, causing draughts.