How important is radiator location in a room?

[TCCHeating]

So what circulates the hot water from your cooled boiler to your radiators?

The starter motor

 

[Corgigrouch]

Ah! The joys of having a log burner on gravity...

What ever you do, don't put curtains on it....

 

[Mark321]

Worth signing up to this forum just to read this thread. Well worth 15 minutes of my life, thanks guys for the entertainment

Just for the hell of it, all my rads go under windows

 

[Corgigrouch]

We like to draw the ******* out so that the marksmen can track them down and put them out of our misery...

 

[wipeoutdude]

See Wipeoutdude you didnt even have to ask it was staring you in the face all the time !!!!!

Had no idea I was starting a riot..

Good thing I have any idea who is right and who is wrong which I where I came in with the original question..

Maybe on some level all theories are mostly right and a little wrong meaning it doesn't really matter..

 

[Terry lambert]

Worth signing up to this forum just to read this thread. Well worth 15 minutes of my life, thanks guys for the entertainment

Just for the hell of it, all my rads go under windows

Centre of the window ? slightly left or right ?

 

[Mark321]

Centre of the window ? slightly left or right ?

Ah, now that's when I bring the missus in

 

[Dan Robinson]

Not if she's anything like mine

 

[Terry lambert]

Not if she's anything like mine

No, she'd probably want them installed on a side wall

 

[Dan Robinson]

Considering her home nation's reputation for precision she is flipping useless at placement.

Parking is something best not mentioned

Bless her.

 

[Norcon]

So, with my 0.44wm insulated walls and the rad not near the window why is the room not evenly heated?

Double glazed UPVc windows.

How about the utility - less than 6 months old. Brand new Upvc door. Rad on opposite end? Same issue.

Well insulated rooms and correctly sized rads, yet the prediction follows that of the drawing posted.

Not so laughable. Have you learned to spell my name yet Norc?

This is another room in my gaffe (much bigger) with a single vertical Adagio fitted on the only inner wall.
Much more even here.. Not too shabby eh?
And the double glazing is old inefficient units! Temperature outside is 4c.

What was that book you were quoting from earlier? treolar or google?

 

[Stocho]

So, with my 0.44wm insulated walls and the rad not near the window why is the room not evenly heated?

Double glazed UPVc windows.

How about the utility - less than 6 months old. Brand new Upvc door. Rad on opposite end? Same issue.

Well insulated rooms and correctly sized rads, yet the prediction follows that of the drawing posted.

Not so laughable. Have you learned to spell my name yet Norc?

Here's a room in my gaffe this evening with a 0.6m wide X 2m tall Quinn Adagio on an inner wall.
People say they are useless at heating a room but I know different.
The temperatures were taken at 0.3m and 2m above floor level.
You can see the low level temperatures are much more even whilst the higher elevations deviate slightly.
Does the room feel uncomfortable? Nope!
And the rad is thermosyphoned.. not pumped!

Very useful and quite counter-intuitive for some "forum resient physicists" - orgi registered or not.

The interesting thing is that at low level it is the opposite corner that is the warmest which tells you a lot about covection currents in the room.

Most O-Level passed-or-failed no A-Level taken "physicists" would indeed say that tall radiators are a stupid idea after all if you heat the top the air will just be heated at the top and warm air will never travel down. And that could well be tru under certain conditions like uniform heating of th eiling but,firtuntely in ral ife i is different and convection currents form thus ircilating the warm air.

 

[Dan Robinson]

A close to 3 degree swing isn't something to get to excited about. Assuming the readings are accurate, but by judging Norc's inability to spell my name and his handwriting akin to my 5 year old's - I'll take anything he claims with a dead sea sized pinch of salt.

And as for Dr Drivel - or is it Big Burner. You have form for this .

Book was George Steele, as told. Try reading what is posted.

 

[neiltheplumber]

Oops wrong post

 

[Norcon]

A close to 3 degree swing isn't something to get to excited about. Assuming the readings are accurate, but by judging Norc's inability to spell my name and his handwriting akin to my 5 year old's - I'll take anything he claims with a dead sea sized pinch of salt.

And as for Dr Drivel - or is it Big Burner. You have form for this .

Book was George Steele, as told. Try reading what is posted.

You're clutching at straws now friendo.

You still have not posted the author of your earlier drivel!
I might have it my library as I have quite a lot.