where should the radiator go in an attic room with a sloping ceiling?

alexanderalexander

I'm having a loft conversion done to add two bedrooms (one at front with a sloping ceiling, one at the back in the dormer) and I don't know where to put the radiator in the front bedroom. Normally I'd put the radiator underneath a window, but given it has a sloping ceiling I am currently at a loss as to where it should go. Options are:

1. Put it on the very short bit of vertical wall at the bottom of the sloping ceiling. Will this, however, mean that all the heat convects upwards straight into the sloping ceiling and Velux windows rather than around the room?
2. Put it on the opposite wall (i.e. the only wall in the room which is full-height throughout). I think this will work with my planned furniture arrangement, but it does seem a bit of a "waste" of part of the only full height wall in case I want to change my furniture arrangement in the future.

Unfortunately the only feasible furniture arrangements mean that it can't go on either of the side walls.



What do people think?

MX5huggy

It'll be fine on the short wall as long as you're insulating to current building regulations requirements, the room will heat fast.

glasgowdan

You get good short radiators. It will heat the room fine under the sloping ceiling.