My current heating situation is that I have a single radiator in my lounge which has to heat both the lounge and dining room (open plan style). The problem is that due to space limitations, one of our sofas has to be placed in front of the radiator. I expect that this reduces the amount of heat getting into the room.
Is there any system i can get which will help the heat get out from behind the sofa; some kind of fan system or something that i can place underneath the radiator. Would replacing the radiator with a double radiator be benificial. The room(s) to heat together are about 3m x 7m
Replacing with a double will increase the output of the radiator but having the sofa infront will still reduce the effectiveness of the radiator.
Just an idea... Tape some sheets of tin foil to the back of the sofa to help reflect the heat, some people put in foil behind the radiators so why not infront? It'll only cost a few pence to try and you never know!
Move the radiator to the centre of the room and lay it flat (it will still work, though perhaps not as effectively). It will also become a useful additional piece of furniture and help to start conversations during those deadly dull dinner parties.
A great coffee table, keeps it warm anyway. Or warm nibbles pre dinner party.
I would guess that your heat requirement is around 3kw/10kbtu for the combined lounge diner. That's rather a lot for a single panel, but more achievable with a 1600mm double.
If you do replace it with a higher output one, then do check the pipework capacity. If you have a number or radiators connected in a group on 15mm pipes, for example, with average (whatever that is) pipe runs, the *total* heat that can be delivered is around 6kW.
This is because the heat that is deliverable is limited by flow rate and that ultimately is limited by pipe size.
To determine this, you really need to check the sizes of the radiators and look at manufacturer's data sheets to determine the output in kW. Then work backwards. If the pipework from the radiator in question connects directly to 22mm feed and return pipes from the boiler, then it is probably OK.
I'll give you an example of how this can be a problem. My house and that of my neighbour has the radiators connected using 8mm microbore tube. The rule of thumb maximum heat transfer for this size is
1.5kW. My neighbour decided that he wanted to increase the heat delivered in his living room because of a similar situation to you and increased the size of a radiator (which was 1500W) to a 3kW one.
He couldn't understand why it didn't get very warm and the return was practically cold. Fortunately, we were able to replumb it in 15mm to a position close to the boiler and resolved the problem.
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You may have - and indeed probably do have, deadly dull dinner parties.
However the rest of us have worked out that if the guests are a flippng bore, they don' get invited again, and a process of Darwinian selection now ensures the dinner parties are of good cheer.
I am not sure what you can do tho, as the problem is pretty
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I thought microbore was used with faster pumps rates. Not being of the malleable cupric/leaden persuasion, I can only imagine the best solution to be replumbing the rooms anyway as the radiator is inadequate and badly sited. What would that cost?
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