Hep20 underfloor heating conservatory pack

[mk2phil]

I was planning to use an underfloor heating kit made by hep20 for conservatories. It basically runs as another radiator from what I'm led to believe with its own temperature control valve that sits inside the conservatory.

However, when the house gets up to the right temperture, regardless of whether the temp valve in the conservatory is still below the required temperature or not, the whole system will shut off and therefore stop heating the conservatory too.

Also, I read somewhere (it may have even been on here) that it can take 10 hours for the floor to reach any sort of acceptable temperature - is this right?

Am I better off fitting a normal radiator out there (and still facing the initial problem of the house getting warm before the conservatory and cutting the heating all together) or using an electric wall heater?

Thanks in advance.

 

[nickso]

it sounds expensive. how big is the conservatory? why do you think it will be particularly difficult to heat?

im assuming you have a roomstat that controls the rest of the house and thats why you have concerns about the conservatory not heating up enough if the rest of the house is. if you were to have the roomstat high and the house rad valves set low then you could counteract that problem

you could have the conservatory on a seperate pipe/zone valve, so that it would stay on as long as you wanted and the house stat would have no effect on it. there is potentially a fair bit of extra logistics and hassle to do that.

 

[mk2phil]

its about 9' x 14' and is currently freezing - we keep the patio door closed otherwise the living room gets too cold. It has full length windows which I know are bad for thermal insulation, plus the seals are poor and you can feel a draft at most of the joints/windows. We're planning to have a new one built with a dwarf wall which will hopefully be warmer. So at this stage I was just wondering what my options were - I'm starting to decorate the living room and need to know whether I should feed central heating pipes in there before I re-plaster the walls, or just fit a wall mounted electric heater.