On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:04:31 -0800 (PST), Martin Pentreath
wrote:

On 30 Nov, 21:51, Stuart B wrote:
I live in a tenement flat with other flats above ,below and on two
sides . The living room is 3.7m x 5.5 m and 3.3 m (High)
and the present heating arrangements are two rads ,one ( RAD1) on the
wall opposite the windows and one (RAD2) on the wall to one side of
the windows .There is also a gas fire on the other side wall. The rads
are 600 x 1200 mm .
Having the fire stops me using this wall for siting furniture against
it and the rad on the wall opposite the window stops me doing the
same there .
What i was thinking of doing was either remove the fire and move this
last rad to the other end of the wall that already has a rad on it
(Shown As RAD3) . The alternative is to still shift the rad but keep
the fire where it is . I find that using the rads without using the
fire is OK.though.
Here is a rough sketch of the layouthttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/molley/Living%20Room/lroom01.jpg

Any thoughts .

Stuart

Another idea for your consideration: does the window go all the way to
the floor? If not you could put a long low rad under the window, which
I guess is a wall that is already out of bounds for furniture. This
has the added advantage of avoiding cold spots near the window.

I did actually consider that .The windows stop about 2 feet from the
floor ...The only problems are that obviously it means more floorboard
lifting ,altho' that is not an insurmountable problem but also the
curtains are full length as that suits this type of flat with the high
ceilings ..