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Default Cold room above garage (did you fix yours?)


"Jon" wrote in message
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We've got a bedroom above the garage in our eight year old house which
is always 5 deg C colder (or more) than the rest of the house on cold
days. The fact that the bedroom floor is always cold leads me to
believe the insulation requires significant improvement between the
garage ceiling and bedroom floor.

This may be a deeply unfashionable thing to suggest, and may be highly
offensive to some regulars on this group, but I'll say it anyway:

Have you considered putting a bit more heat into the room? Is the
radiator at the same temperature (in and out) as the others in the
house? Does it have a thermostatic valve, and if so, is it set and
working correctly? Could you put a suitably controlled larger radiator
in, or substitute a double for a single?

Depending on how long you intend to live there, and how much of the day
you need the room to be warm, it may even be more cost-effective than
buying lots of insulation. A quick look at the calculations for the
system I've just put in suggests that the most heat loss you could hope
to save would be perhaps a couple of hundred watts.

There, I've said it.

At least you say you've got a carpet in there, which will help: better
than a solid-copper-with fins-underneath floor, or whatever is
fashionable today.


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