Do you have rads in your loft conversion?
10 July 2005, 08:00 PM
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Do you have rads in your loft conversion?
Just asking as the house I am buying has a pukka loft conversion but no rads fitted up there. Maybe the heat rising is enough??? Cheers D
11 July 2005, 09:18 AM
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yep, we've got a rad in the loft, definately needed becuase its freezing in the winter without it. we're running it off a combi boiler thingy so didnt have to worry about having a header tank higher than it.
11 July 2005, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by stormyuklondon1
yep, we've got a rad in the loft, definately needed becuase its freezing in the winter without it. we're running it off a combi boiler thingy so didnt have to worry about having a header tank higher than it.
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11 July 2005, 07:28 PM
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Luckilly a monster combi is up there - running a couple of rads close by should be really quite easy. Just wondered why they didnt do it?
This is one house where I dont want to be heating the bedrooms during the day so need to work out where an extra motorised valve for upstairs goes next and then take the feed from after that.
D
This is one house where I dont want to be heating the bedrooms during the day so need to work out where an extra motorised valve for upstairs goes next and then take the feed from after that.
D
11 July 2005, 07:32 PM
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We have 2 radiators in our loft conversion. Neither has been turned on since we moved in last year and that includes the winter period where the outside temperature dropped below -5º. At the moment its too hot to go up there even though both windows are wide open. 
My old house also had a loft conversion and even though the room was quite big it only had one 3x2 rad in there and that never got switched on either.
I suppose its down to the level of insulation put in when it was built. Chances are if there are no rads in there already - you won't need any.
My old house also had a loft conversion and even though the room was quite big it only had one 3x2 rad in there and that never got switched on either.
I suppose its down to the level of insulation put in when it was built. Chances are if there are no rads in there already - you won't need any.
11 July 2005, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Diesel
Luckilly a monster combi is up there - running a couple of rads close by should be really quite easy. Just wondered why they didnt do it?
This is one house where I dont want to be heating the bedrooms during the day so need to work out where an extra motorised valve for upstairs goes next and then take the feed from after that.
D
This is one house where I dont want to be heating the bedrooms during the day so need to work out where an extra motorised valve for upstairs goes next and then take the feed from after that.
D
12 July 2005, 01:10 PM
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Building society wont do more than 4 x salary Mog 
Was going to do it in previous house you saw, but couldnt find where they split off upstairs/downstairs hot feeds. May be more pie in the sky
Was going to do it in previous house you saw, but couldnt find where they split off upstairs/downstairs hot feeds. May be more pie in the sky
12 July 2005, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Mog
Just pressurise the heating, assuming the boiler has a facility of an overheat stat and do away with the expansion tank.
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12 July 2005, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by mattstant
Is that strictly legal Mog ???
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12 July 2005, 06:17 PM
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right is this a good price or what
im getting my loft converted , its a space or will be of roughly 5m by 4m
im going for a wooden ladder full elctric points the biggest velux window possible and of course a fitted wooden floor
how much should this set me back???
ill post how much ive been quoted in a tic
im not gloating it just seems too cheap
im getting my loft converted , its a space or will be of roughly 5m by 4m
im going for a wooden ladder full elctric points the biggest velux window possible and of course a fitted wooden floor
how much should this set me back???
ill post how much ive been quoted in a tic
im not gloating it just seems too cheap
12 July 2005, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by EXSCOOBY
right is this a good price or what
im getting my loft converted , its a space or will be of roughly 5m by 4m
im going for a wooden ladder full elctric points the biggest velux window possible and of course a fitted wooden floor
how much should this set me back???
ill post how much ive been quoted in a tic
im not gloating it just seems too cheap
im getting my loft converted , its a space or will be of roughly 5m by 4m
im going for a wooden ladder full elctric points the biggest velux window possible and of course a fitted wooden floor
how much should this set me back???
ill post how much ive been quoted in a tic
im not gloating it just seems too cheap
Mog
Meant to say at least 10k
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14 July 2005, 07:47 PM
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As Mog says, be SURE it passes the building regs and get the certificate [I insisted on seeing this before I even did the survey on the house I'm buying, so they then, err, bothered getting one ).
Mate had a conversion done for 7k and the building regs guy happened to see it when he came to sign off for a different ground floor extension project. It will cost £10k to get the loft up to spec [access & insulation] and meantime my mate is bricking it that they can INSIST that he has it done.
). Mate had a conversion done for 7k and the building regs guy happened to see it when he came to sign off for a different ground floor extension project. It will cost £10k to get the loft up to spec [access & insulation] and meantime my mate is bricking it that they can INSIST that he has it done.
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