Removing Door between house and conservatory

Polmop

As mentioned we have removed ours alltogether and we have a radiator against one wall in there.
We do not suffer from the cold in winter it is just like another room in the house.
But my daughter wont sit in there to watch the tv at night because its all windows and someone may be looking in lol

I_have_spoken

I'm thinking not a good idea.

My conservatory has a radiator and is south facing but I certainly keep the sliding patio doors shut after the sun has gone during winter.

Heat just flies out the conservatory in winter

fluffymuffy

Wouldn't remove the doors. But wouldn't close them either. I'd heat the whole house from an air source heat pump in the conservatory. Vyair make a DIY-install model for about £600.

Vintageryan

To many myths about removing doors to a conservatory.


No you shouldn't remove the doors because it is no longer a conservatory but an extension which would now require regs but no council would ever in a million years care or enforce it.


No it will most likely not create problems when you sell the house, even if you throw the doors and plaster over the gap because a surveyor may not notice or you will just need to take out indemnity insurance if he does.


In terms of heat loss we took our doors off 6 years ago the conservatory is west facing, double glazed with k-glass and I have never known it to be cold or noticed much difference in the heating bill.

System

Vintageryan wrote: »

No you shouldn't remove the doors because it is no longer a conservatory but an extension which would now require regs but no council would ever in a million years care or enforce it

I can 100% dispell that one, as I've been around less that a million years!

27col

Johnandabby wrote: »

If you want something built to proper insulation standards, then it's an extension built to Building Regulations standard and not a conservatory. There are no standards for insulation in conservatories.

My point exactly!

ed110220

It would be absolute madness to remove the doors between a house and conservatory. The building regulations are there for good reason.

A conservatory loses an enormous amount of heat and so if you have no doors (and they should be exterior grade doors) between it and the house you are simply going to let your heat leak out through the conservatory.

You may as well switch the central heating on and fling open the windows at the same time...

Vintageryan

the_r_sole wrote: »

I can 100% dispell that one, as I've been around less that a million years!

So you have known a council to come round someones house and tell them to pull the conservatory down because of a lack of doors?

mandragora_2

We wanted more light between our sitting room and the conservatory, and also to see the garden, so we put glass curtains in, (like these ones). They're fantastic, because they slide back flat and the two rooms become one when we want them to, but if you want to close the conservatory off you close them, but still get the light and garden view into the sitting room. As they close flush, and we have curtains in the sitting room, heat loss hasn't been an issue.

System

Vintageryan wrote: »

So you have known a council to come round someones house and tell them to pull the conservatory down because of a lack of doors?

No, but I've known three local authorities to insist on heat loss calculations when a conservatory without a thermal break has been installed - and only once been successful, the only cost effective solution in two of the cases was to install the doors - clearly the op is asking about the regulations so is trying to do things by the book, yes it is possible to remove the doors and ignore regulations, but technically once finished (with no door) the ops does no meet the exemptions and requires approval...