If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Radiator output problem

Nick Lawson · 2006-12-21 11:40:33

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and unfortunately am starting off with a problem. I bought a new house about a year ago and have had problems getting the heat up to a comfortable temperature. I reckoned that the radiators were too small and told the builder this but he said he disagreed so I tried to get a plumber to…

Options

21-12-2006 12:40pm

#1

Nick Lawson

Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭

Join Date: December 2006

Posts: 24

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and unfortunately am starting off with a problem.

I bought a new house about a year ago and have had problems getting the heat up to a comfortable temperature. I reckoned that the radiators were too small and told the builder this but he said he disagreed so I tried to get a plumber to assess them and write a report. I must have rang every plumber in the phone book but no-one wanted to get involved so I ended up getting an engineer in. The engineers report showed that all of the rads. were too small but the builder still disputed it. To cut a very long story short, he then commissioned a firm of consulting engineers who specialise in heating and I have just received the report today - they say the rads are all way oversize! I have rejected this for the following reasons:

The previous report findings.
The house never gets to a comfortable temperature.
All of the residents, in the first phase, have the same problem.
The next phases of the site have larger higher output rads in the same housetype.

Why I doubt the second report even more is the fact that I have an integral garage with a room above it. The floor in this room was not insulated and therefore it was about as cold as the garage beneath it. In the second report the calculations had allowed for the lack of insulation and still showed that the existing heat production was 144% of what was required!

The builder is now saying the report proves him right but I am still cold! Can anyone give me any advice on the next step to take?
_________________
Nick

0