Conservatory and insulation options

[Twofingertyper]

Not so much a DIY question, but a 'where do I start and who do I ask' one.

On my house, I have a conservatory that joins the kitchen and the dining room; if you picture the lay out as:

[kitch] [cons]

[dine]
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So that the dining room is part of the main house, and the kitchen is only connected through the conservatory due to previous owner modifications.

This means that the doors dividing the dining room and conservatory are internal doors only, meaning that there's some draft exclusion added to them to try and retain some heat, but my main question is about finding out how best to identify sources of heat loss? I can check for drafts (they're everywhere...) but is their a particular trade of people that I can call out and ask for insulation advice based on actual findings? As opposed to suggesting additional wall insulation, etc that may not even do much more than drain my bank balance.

It's never going to be a warm room in the winter because of the glass (although it's the latest in glass technology, it is still glass) but I wanted to gauge if it would be worthwhile doing anything other than saving my pennies and getting a proper extension built when funds permit...

Cheers,
TFT

 

[foxhole]

Heat loss will be thru the roof and walls of the conservatory. You don't need a specialist to tell you that? you can change the roof/walls of the conservatory as regulations have been relaxed with regards to conservatory construction, check with local council planning dept who are usually very helpful.

 

[Twofingertyper]

Sorry for the delay in responding, have been offline for some while.

Thanks for the response, and no, I don't really need a specialist to tell me - it's more about them telling interferring family members that their ideas would cause me more headaches than warmth... Likely that we'll go for a reasonable extension and changes to both walls and glass roof to make the room useable when temperatures drop below 10c...

Thanks anyway!