Cold bathroom making rest of house cold

Robwiz

sharloid wrote: »

The radiator is getting hot, it seems that the room is just losing heat so quickly that it's not warming up. It's silly to keep the heating on when it's not really making any difference to the house. It's the only single storey bit of the house so I'm guessing it's just really badly insulated. There's also damp/mould so it's not ventilated either.


Ah, that's another thing about this house, none of the doors actually close properly as they don't fit in the frames. It's shut the best we can though, with a blanket or towel on the floor as a draught excluder. Doesn't change the bathroom being 10 degrees though sadly.

Even though you're renting, it would be worth your while to buy some rolls of draught excluder and stop the draughts around all the doors.

It sounds like the bathroom extension is poorly insulated. It probably wouldn't be too expensive to install additional insulation but there's no incentive for the landlord to do that.

stator

Transformers wrote: »

For the bathroom, get some extra thick vinyl flooring - with the sales starting you can get a bargain offcut.

You won't need to lay it permanently, just place it on the top as an extra insulating layer against the ground.

Also, thicker curtains will help and draft excluders.

Rugs in rooms will also help the heat loss at ground level.

Have you tried tin foil being the radiators to reflect the heat back?

http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2013/jan/26/does-tin-foil-radiator-beat-cold

If putting down vinyl you might as well put some insulation underneath it, the vinyl itself wouldn't stop much heat loss. Polystyrene or twinwall plastic. Or if you put down laminate instead you could use that foil coated bubble wrap underneath too

Draft excluders and heavy curtains / thermal blinds etc should all help.

Ben84

Bathrooms are often oddly cold, and I've always found the cause when I pop the side off the bath. There always seem to be a giant, cold air leaking hole for the waste pipe, and often there's no floorboards under there either. One house I lived in the plastic bath panel would bulge and creak every time the wind blew hard on the side of the house!

Expanding foam is good for pipe holes, and plywood is good for the floor.