Using easiest to heat rooms

Green_hopeful

This might be obviously obvious but it didn’t come to me straight away and it will not work for everyone. 

We have moved out of our bedroom because we are having building work done. 

We moved into our sons room first which is large and the windows don’t fit very well. It’s over the unheated room. We were really cold struggling to get to 13 degrees even with the central heating on quite a bit. 

We then moved into our daughters room as the builders moved round to a new room. It’s a smaller room over the kitchen which is heated. It’s so much easier to heat. 

So two things might be working one room is smaller and less draughty. It’s also near other heated rooms. 

I realise everyone’s situation is different but it might help to consider moving rooms. 

Mstty

Did you apologise to your son for making him cold for years?

jvjack

lol @mstty
But yes 13 degrees is miserable.
My bedrooms upstairs are diffrent too. I'm always thinking could i bore a hole through ceiling into main bedrrom from living room and have the heat trickle out overnight.

FreeBear

Have a south facing bedroom directly above my lounge. It benefits from solar heating during the daytime (if the sun is shining), and gets quite a bit of heat from the stove in the lounge - The chimney breast in the bedroom is quite often at 25°C which is enough to keep the room warm.

The one thing that has made the biggest difference though, is replacing the draughty old double glazed window. No more cold draughts coming in around the sides of the window. Last winter, temperature in there was in the 15-17°C range, this last cold snap, 16-19°C (and the radiator is turned off).

Green_hopeful

Mstty said:

Did you apologise to your son for making him cold for years?

We did tell him about it. He used to complain quite a bit about the temperature when he lived here. He used to sleep with a duvet over his head.  Fortunately for him he hasn’t lived in our house for a few years. 

jvjack

Joking aside this is a good tip given Green_hopeful
I turned trv off on radiator in bedroom above kitchen and found stayed above 14 degrees in that cold spell. Couldnt quite understand it.  Reason now ive gone arround is the new gas combi in kitchen which im still testing was directly letting its heat go up into the airing cuboard above where immersiion used to be (they removed it but can feel heat rising through slightly exposed floorboards)  And of course rest of kitchen heat.

Green_hopeful

I think you get stuck in a mindset of this is my room so I will try to heat this one as best I can but actually that might be really difficult whereas another room would be easier or cheaper. If I lived on my own I might sleep on the sofa if there was only one room I could heat. With 4 of us that isn’t going to work especially as it’s a two seat sofa. 

jvjack

Lol. All the fallouts on that sofa.
I tested new boiler full on for 7 days in that cold spell. I think it was 845 kw gas. Not too bad 24/7. But unsustainable.
But next cold snap i'm sleeping in kitchen to save lots of money.