Hi there,
We have a sunroom off of our main dining and kitchen area. It is open plan in the sense there are no doors into the sunroom. The windows would be from c. 2005 so I expect they are standard double glazed.
It has a high vaulted ceiling and french doors to a patio. There is insulation backed plasterboard (most likely polyurethane we're told) to the external walls according to the engineer that surveyed the house originally. There are 2 veluxes in the vaulted ceiling.
The whole area (sunroom, kitchen and dining) loses heat very quickly, less than an hour after turning off the heating and the place will start feeling a little on the cold side.
The area wouldn't see much sun in winter (from November to February really) as the sun is too low and there are some trees not too far off.
We're thinking of doing the following before looking into improving glass(costly I expect) or insulation in the sun-room:
1/ Decent double doors between the dining/kitchen and sunroom. At least then the sun-room can be closed off in winter. We might put good double or even triple glazing to these internal doors.
2/ Thick blinds with thermal backing (this is pricey in itself, c. 1500 euro), and curtains over the external french doors area.
We are not overly pushed about using this space during the height of winter as we have another living area.
Would we be better if replacing the window glass instead or improving on insulation first? Replacing glass could get very pricey I would think
Any thoughts, or other ideas?
Thanks!
We have a sunroom off of our main dining and kitchen area. It is open plan in the sense there are no doors into the sunroom. The windows would be from c. 2005 so I expect they are standard double glazed.
It has a high vaulted ceiling and french doors to a patio. There is insulation backed plasterboard (most likely polyurethane we're told) to the external walls according to the engineer that surveyed the house originally. There are 2 veluxes in the vaulted ceiling.
The whole area (sunroom, kitchen and dining) loses heat very quickly, less than an hour after turning off the heating and the place will start feeling a little on the cold side.
The area wouldn't see much sun in winter (from November to February really) as the sun is too low and there are some trees not too far off.
We're thinking of doing the following before looking into improving glass(costly I expect) or insulation in the sun-room:
1/ Decent double doors between the dining/kitchen and sunroom. At least then the sun-room can be closed off in winter. We might put good double or even triple glazing to these internal doors.
2/ Thick blinds with thermal backing (this is pricey in itself, c. 1500 euro), and curtains over the external french doors area.
We are not overly pushed about using this space during the height of winter as we have another living area.
Would we be better if replacing the window glass instead or improving on insulation first? Replacing glass could get very pricey I would think
Any thoughts, or other ideas?
Thanks!