yea right ......
send a picture of your complete wall space within your 4mx4m & 3.5mx4m room then 
then tell me it wasn't about aesthetics 
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yea right ......
send a picture of your complete wall space within your 4mx4m & 3.5mx4m room then then tell me it wasn't about aesthetics 
This is by far the best advice, for very cold days, top up some heat using electric 2kw fan heater, it works magic, run it for less than an hour and it would warm up the room and stay warm for a good while before you need to switch it back on. This is the price you would have to pay if your CH radiators were of inadequate size or emitted less heat than anticipated.
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corrugated steel from local steel stock holders/steel fabrication companies (raw sheet will have to be pressed into the shape required) not really an off the shelf option and for small project expensive.
Still think plinth heaters either electric or water heated will be a more professional finished installation.
Or just use portable heaters for the colder days.
Still think plinth heaters either electric or water heated will be a more professional finished installation.
Or just use portable heaters for the colder days.
yes. plinth heater for this me thinks. cheers all.
yea right ......
at the back of this image there is zero wall space.. kitchen units etc. and I read you cant put rads behind sofas.
could have had one here but were getting a bar.
cant put a rad under a tv.
I had a budget to stick to. But yes if money was no object UFH would have been nice.
Thanks. The room with the bifold is a new 2 storey extension.. the kitchen already existed.
Beautiful set up, but I can see from the picture you are not going to get much heat radiated into the room or space, most will just rise to the top near ceiling, what if you were to buy those maplin radiator heat booster, and mount it under the rads so that it sucks air downwards, and distributes into the room at lower level, this should really make a lot of difference, it would certainly be worth trying, for that price, all depends if it can move air all the way from top to all the way to the bottom, which means you may have to block some of the gaps between fins, and sides so that the fan blower only sucks air from top and as the air gets drawned in from top, it picks up the heat from the radiator fins, and warm air is then then blown across the bottom of the room. A sort of warm air heating like system, as it is I can see its not going to help much in heating your lower part of the room.
Secondly you might have been better off mounting the rad in that kitchen corner facing into the room rather into the kitchen. That way it would have better air flow around it, as is your other rad in the back of the picture.
Secondly you might have been better off mounting the rad in that kitchen corner facing into the room rather into the kitchen. That way it would have better air flow around it, as is your other rad in the back of the picture.
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I'm really thinking plinth is the only solid option.. they can be had for less than £200. those napkin things are cute I'll give you that but they likely won't do it and I'll be £50 out of pocket. thanks for the upside down thinking though.
go for it and let us know how it improves your situation, it would be interesting, will you be then getting rid of those vertical rads/ or are you going to leave them in there as well?
I have similar problem in my bedroom, where due to space constraint, my bed sits right against a 1.2m rad, which gets pretty hot (50 C) if you were sleeping close to it, it becomes intolerable but the room stays cold, because it just doesn't have the air flow around it and the bed covers half of its height, so it just takes the chill off the room but doesn't quite heat it to more than 19C so i might try that maplin gadget and force air through it, there is an inch or two gap under the bed from where it could draw air in through and send it into the room. I didn't know Maplin had this gadget.
I have similar problem in my bedroom, where due to space constraint, my bed sits right against a 1.2m rad, which gets pretty hot (50 C) if you were sleeping close to it, it becomes intolerable but the room stays cold, because it just doesn't have the air flow around it and the bed covers half of its height, so it just takes the chill off the room but doesn't quite heat it to more than 19C so i might try that maplin gadget and force air through it, there is an inch or two gap under the bed from where it could draw air in through and send it into the room. I didn't know Maplin had this gadget.
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Surface area wouldn't require 'increasing' had you of correctly sized the heat emitter in the first instance ....as I said , seek professional advice next time.
another useful post, well done.
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