Is this a heating mistake?

[Mottie]

We're currently staying in a cottage in the Peak District. We have to have the heating up near on max to heat the place up - look where the room stat is! Also, look at that damp line on the wall - that’s the pipes for the rad that come down from upstairs plastered into the wall. What a waste of energy! Not that I’m planning to do anything about it - we're only here for the week.

 

[Gasguru]

Bodge job but I've found thermostats in kitchen cupboards and in another property (often when they are converted).
The "damp" may be due to someone wrapping the pipes with denso tape and the petrolatum is leaching through.
Denso shouldn't be used...there are more suitable products.

 

[ianmcd]

Surprised the heating ever stays on

 

[Nozzle]

And likely the bracket for the radiator is in the safe zone for the wall socket.

Perhaps there's always been a rad there, they just fitted a bigger one to the point the rising heat is now certain to effect the thermostat

Nozzle

 

[Mottie]

The only other rad in the room is under the window behind some very heavy floor to ceiling curtains!

 

[FiremanT]

Is that a textured wall?

 

[Mottie]

It’s a converted dairy - all the walls have that rough finish. My mate who is a plasterer, would call that a R.A.F finish, Rough As F.......

 

[stem]

I find that quite a high percentage of room thermostats are badly sited. I wouldn't be surprised to find a TRV fitted to that radiator either.