Cold sunroom, need separate heating thermostat?

[dundalkbob]

I was wondering if anyone would have any advice on our cold sunroom. Basically the room is the coldest in the house. It is off the kitchen and separated by two double doors. However, we barely use it during the winter because of how cold it gets.

There's a long double radiator in the room, however it never gets to be on for very long as the thermostat is in the hall of the house. So once the hall of the house is warm enough the heating goes off, without the sunroom getting warm enough.

Does anyone have advice on this? Should this room have its own circuit/thermostat? I wouldn't want to move the current one there either as it'll only lead to the rest of the house getting too hot.

 

[Dotty]

Assuming that you are in Dundalk the planning regs are different from ours.

But basically, yeah. Radiators in sun rooms and conservatories need to be on their own circuits with their own timeclock channel and room stat.

Part L of the building regs I think it is.

 

[Dotty]

Oh, and apologies for kicking you out in your original incarnation, we couldn't allow the name you had used, I'm afraid. Hope you understand.

 

[finchy01]

If the other rads have trvs on then you could regulate the rest of the house on those and move the stat into the sun room (make sure it's shaded from the sun though otherwise you'll end up reversing your current problem) adding a separate circuit wouldn't be easy depending on what system you have. Is it an s plan or you plan do you know?

 

[dundalkbob]

No worries, I understand.

Im in the north of Ireland so it would be UK regulations but in any case I guess it wasn't setup that way. OK I guess I'll just have to look into getting that done then.

Thanks

 

[Dotty]

The 6 counties have their own planning regs which are closely modelled on the mainlands building regulations so if you follow part L you won't be too far off.