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Keeping heat in a conservatory
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The point of the matter is that any conservatory looses to much heat to be affordable to heat in winter, added to that underfloor heating is in my opinion a pile of crap - well nearly, but you need to be aware that underfloor heating is not as efficient or effective as you might have anticipated!
You would have been far better off putting in an insulated ground slab or floating floor and adding some wall mounted radiators so that the conservatory could be used for around 9 months of the year! As for this time of the year forget it, it would cost you a fortune to heat in the current climate and not only that you will be encouraging problems with condensation if you go about cycling the heating on and off!
Regards
The point of the matter is that any conservatory looses to much heat to be affordable to heat in winter, added to that underfloor heating is in my opinion a pile of crap - well nearly, but you need to be aware that underfloor heating is not as efficient or effective as you might have anticipated!
You would have been far better off putting in an insulated ground slab or floating floor and adding some wall mounted radiators so that the conservatory could be used for around 9 months of the year! As for this time of the year forget it, it would cost you a fortune to heat in the current climate and not only that you will be encouraging problems with condensation if you go about cycling the heating on and off!
Regards
Here you go...
I suspect, and it's not possible to know as there is no data, that the Floor Heating System graph measures 'thermal comfort' and not actual temperature of the air as such. Thermal comfort is a nice wooly concept so loved by snake oil salesmen, and depends on all sorts of things, including perceived warmth by the skin from radiative heat sources.
This radiative heat in a room primarily heated by UFH comes from many sources, including the walls, which in a conservatory will be very close to outside air temperature. In a insulated room I suspect the theory holds a lot better.
I once got fooled by the manufacturers of radiative heaters who claimed that you would feel warm in a conservatory even if the air temperature was quite low. It went back to the shop and I got my money back. Bought a cheap convection heater, reversed the fan in the roof from summer setting, and on the half dozen days we sit in the conservatory in winter we pay about 20p per hour to keep it OK warmish. So well less than a pint of beer and considerably cheaper than trying to insulatee it. Also helps if you wear a hat
But you will soon be disappointed if you think you can easily keep your conservatory warm in the winter. IMO.
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I agree with you entirely. Just for clarification I wasn't the OP, who has kept his silence since posing the question.
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8) My work here is done!
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Ta, but they are not opening as large images only as postage stamp size!
Do you need planning permission to do that?
Using a conservatory in the winter is akin to using a collander to carry water.....
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