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Anyone got wet skirting board heating? Any good? I'm thinking of using it to supplement the rads.
Or just increase the size of the rads?
Isn't the idea to increase the size of the emitters and run the boiler on a lower delta T to improve efficiency?
Like to hear as well as will be re doing heating soon and look like a good idea
Isn’t the idea to increase the size of the emitters and run the boiler on a lower delta T to improve efficiency?
Yea but due to the layout of the rooms there's only so much radiator I can install. So I'm thinking about extra emitters as well as rads .
We had Discrete Heat Thermaskirt installed in all the bedrooms when we built our house 12 years ago. Still working fine. Heated towel rails in the bathrooms and underfloor heating on the ground floor. Not having traditional radiators frees up the wall space and makes the room more versatile in terms of furniture location, and the room is heated more evenly.
Yea but due to the layout of the rooms there’s only so much radiator I can install. So I’m thinking about extra emitters as well as rads .
Yeah, totally get that, which is why I said emitters to be more encompassing than radiators. It sounds like a worthwhile plan to me.
You want a higher delta t to improve efficiency
My uncle done it to his gaff when it first came out. Self installed.
He has ended up installing a traditional radiator in the lounge, but due to layout of his house it's the only room they really apart from kitchen.
How do they work? Are they like small radiators?
I'm intrigued
You want a higher delta t to improve efficiency
Other way round, the lower the temperature the more efficient the boiler is as it can work in its condensing mode.
Lower dT means you then need bigger radiators though.
Molgrips, possible to change to larger vertical radiators in some rooms? Already using double k2 radiators?
Can any more be done in draught proofing? I know you did some major stuff last year I think?
Molgrips, possible to change to larger vertical radiators in some rooms?
On landings maybe but they are expensive.
You want higher dT at the radiators, you want as much heat to leave the water as possible so it's cooler when it comes back to the boiler and it helps it condense more.
At the boiler you want to lower the output temp on the assumption that the boiler will lower its flame. But my boiler can't do that much which is why I need bigger rads to dump that heat. It will also make the house heat pump ready.
I have done a lot of draught proofing and insulation but those are needed anyway regardless of what I do to radiators.
no experience but also interested in people's feedback.
I did debating a home brew type install just rerouting the current heating pipes behind the skirting. at present they are below the floor insulation in places so imagine there is some heat loss to the void.
but mixed stuff online about heat loss in the 'housing envelope' ie. below the floor doesn't make much difference. in the end it was going to add weeks to the rebuild so I left that section of the house as is. starting to plan for the other 3 rooms so could be on the cards there when I get shot of the existing 1960s rads
What is this sorcery?
I wanted to, but wonky old house with multiple corners per room priced it out, 14 corners just to get around the main downstairs room, only one room in the house has 4 corners.</p>
I was also thinking it would be heatpump ready future proofing.
Top up heat would come from wood stoves.
Radiators in the end dictating how the room is layed out 🙄
My gran had them in her house. It was always hot as hell in there, so they definitely emit heat.
We exclusively have weird, badly fitted, hydronic baseboard heaters now (apparently it's a North American thing), which seem to work for the modest space, but they do feel like cheap shit. The ones my gran had seemed of better quality.
Skirting board wet heaters. Fascinating!
If you’ve already added high efficiency radiators and need more heat output then why not.
Overlaid UFH out of the question?
I assume the insulation has been maximised?
Insulation is a separate subject.