Hi
Typical semi d house about 20 years old
Last winter the rooms(Particulary the hall and the sitting room) seemed very cold even with the TRV on the rads at highest settings and stat at 20 degreees or set higher - 25 degrees during the really cold spell
The rads themselves would be very hot -so not case of them airlocked
Attic was re-insulated last year to bring it up to 30cm insulation standard or whatever the standard was and boiler for heating was replaced and whole system was flushed out at that time so no air locks in rads and rads heating up well
The walls are hollow block constuction so cant pump insulatation into them. Cant really put external insulation on outside walls as house will look out of place with outjoining house
If were to put internal isulation - will lose too much space on internal room sizes and cant afford to lose that space of room size
The windows are double glazed
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The radiators in most of the rooms are the single radiators - there probably since the house was built
If i was to replace the rads with newer rads in some/all of the rooms - like the newer double rads would that give better heat output into the rooms and make the rooms feel hotter/warmer and be more energy efficient or would that be just a waste of money and the current rads are fine
and its down to the insulation in the walls and also last winter really extreme temps
Thanks
Typical semi d house about 20 years old
Last winter the rooms(Particulary the hall and the sitting room) seemed very cold even with the TRV on the rads at highest settings and stat at 20 degreees or set higher - 25 degrees during the really cold spell
The rads themselves would be very hot -so not case of them airlocked
Attic was re-insulated last year to bring it up to 30cm insulation standard or whatever the standard was and boiler for heating was replaced and whole system was flushed out at that time so no air locks in rads and rads heating up well
The walls are hollow block constuction so cant pump insulatation into them. Cant really put external insulation on outside walls as house will look out of place with outjoining house
If were to put internal isulation - will lose too much space on internal room sizes and cant afford to lose that space of room size
The windows are double glazed
http://www.askaboutmoney.com/#top Additional Options
The radiators in most of the rooms are the single radiators - there probably since the house was built
If i was to replace the rads with newer rads in some/all of the rooms - like the newer double rads would that give better heat output into the rooms and make the rooms feel hotter/warmer and be more energy efficient or would that be just a waste of money and the current rads are fine
and its down to the insulation in the walls and also last winter really extreme temps
Thanks