I did do a quick search on this but still need to ask a couple of questions, my house is a 3 bed semi detached built in the 1950's. The external walls are poured concrete and in the winter its generally a cold house, we currently have the heating on 24 7 set to about 21 degrees.
The room stat is in the hall and I've turned the thermostatic valve on the radiator down to number 2 so the heating is on longer, as we have a new baby we have a wall thermometer in the room which wont shift above 16 degrees, the radiator in that room is to hot to touch, we tried leaving all the bedroom doors open and the temperature in that room got to about 18 degrees. This particular room has 2 external walls and are cold to touch so I suspect that is a large part of heat loss?
We have loft insulation Im not certain of the thickness and the windows are double glazed although could do with being replaced / repaired as they howl in high winds.
I assume I have a cavity even though its poured concrete walls?
The room stat is in the hall and I've turned the thermostatic valve on the radiator down to number 2 so the heating is on longer, as we have a new baby we have a wall thermometer in the room which wont shift above 16 degrees, the radiator in that room is to hot to touch, we tried leaving all the bedroom doors open and the temperature in that room got to about 18 degrees. This particular room has 2 external walls and are cold to touch so I suspect that is a large part of heat loss?
We have loft insulation Im not certain of the thickness and the windows are double glazed although could do with being replaced / repaired as they howl in high winds.
I assume I have a cavity even though its poured concrete walls?