Is there an Industry Standard for Radiator Sizes

Enigmatic_Me

We bought a new build in April last year. Three of the bedrooms have tiny radiators and these rooms did feel quite cold last winter.

As I work from home in one of these rooms last week we got a heating engineer guy out to replace one of these with a bigger radiator.

During the conversation the guy got out a chart, measured the room and said a radiator for this room size should provide around 4,000 BTUs, It currently provides just over 1,000 BTUs.

Now it has me thinking, do we have any comeback form the builders especially if there is an industry standard?

societys_child

I believe radiators can be made to any size, shape, design etc that a manufacturer wishes. Not sure about come-back on the builder, there must be some regs about CH in new builds.