Further to my enquiry a couple of weeks ago, I have decided to have (1700mm x 600mm x93mm) size vertical radiators mounted behind the doors of
3 bedrooms, 1 living room and 1 kitchen. The bathroom and downstairs toilet can have similar size heated towel rails. This optimum and arrangement should keep disruption down to a minimum in an occupied tenancy.
Did you find what was meant by "heat pipe"?
If that's a ground or air source heat-pump, then they tend to run radiators at lower temperature, so may require larger rads that expected to give good performance.
How have you sized those radiators? For looks and/easy installation alone or for the actual heat output required with the water temperature perhaps from an air sourced heat pump?
Who is paying, you or the housing association? If the latter have they agreed to this?
You may find that in a living room and with a narrow vertical radiator someone sitting closest to the radiator will be too hot whilst others sitting in the room are too cold. Often in a room the area under the window is a dead space where no-one sits so no-one is that close to the radiator.
Is there going to be any seating near your vertical radiator?
In our last house the main bedroom had a bay window with fitted drawers below it so we could not have a radiator there and because of the bed position and other fitted furniture the radiator had to go on the opposite wall. Despite quite a reasonably sized radiator the window side of the room always was considerably cooler even after we had DG fitted and I insulated the section of wall below the window. Of course SWAMBO got the side of the bed nearest the radiator and never understood why I was reluctant to jump out of bed on my side especially in winter.
Richard
SiL had an over garage office in a house they rented with a vertical radiator behind the door and despite only having a fairly standard Velux window as the only natural light source, other than by the door the rest of the room was always cool.
Richard
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