Best way to heat a single room?

[TheFaQQer]

Have you tried bleeding the radiator?

I think that norrahe has some expertise in that area, but I might be mistaken.

[Sysman]

I actually don't recall seeing an open fireplace in any new-build house I've ever looked at. We looked at a few quite nice ones, where the rooms were not cupboards with windows and the staircase only wide enough for thin people, and it seems they are just not added. I suppose it lowers the heating efficiency having that big hole

Shame, real fires are great, though you have to get a pretty old house to find fireplaces in every room...

My last pad but one was built in 1995 and had a fireplace. The chimney had a flap which you could close when not in use, and that kept the heat in.

Bit of a bugger if you forgot to open the flap before lighting the fire though, as the lever that operated it was inside the chimney

[Sysman]

Agreed. I think its nicer to have the sofas arranged around the fireplace as the centre of the room, rather than the TV which I find a bit soulless. My house has one of those gas fires that imitates a coal one. And fireplaces in nearly every room. Built 1907.

Agreed. If you have space you can put the telly in another room, what the septics would call a den, and keep the living room as a place to relax or entertain.

I like the stove idea. A good way to eliminate all the discarded, broken furniture the local proles leave in the street too.

And a surprising amount of your own rubbish.

[minestrone]

I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of our gas living flame fires and setting them up for coal. Got have coal bunkers in the garden and we are a decade away from gas not being cost effective.

[bogeyman]

I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of our gas living flame fires and setting them up for coal. Got have coal bunkers in the garden and we are a decade away from gas not being cost effective.

Coal is messy and expensive. Makes too much ash and clinker. Consider a wood burner.

We have a tiny woodburning stove in our sitting room and it puts out and amazing amount of heat. I get a smallish trailer-load load of hardwood logs for about £60, and that lasts right through the winter.

As well as being warm, it's nice to look at. Cheers one up after a hard day.

[minestrone]

Coal is messy and expensive. Makes too much ash and clinker. Consider a wood burner.

We have a tiny woodburning stove in our sitting room and it puts out and amazing amount of heat. I get a smallish trailer-load load of hardwood logs for about £60, and that lasts right through the winter.

As well as being warm, it's nice to look at. Cheers one up after a hard day.

My mate has a wood burner and he goes through an amazing amount of wood as he seems to have to throw in a new bucket each hour.

He stays on a farm though and when a tree falls down he drags it back down to the house with his quad and chops it up, that does him for a few months.

Coal does make the room pretty dusty though and the crap stuff you have to use as we stay in a 'smokeless zone' generates no heat at all, we used to get a delivery from 'out of town' to get round that. I'm guessing that word burning would be banned here as well.

In 10 years gas central heating will not be an option for many and god knows what people in these cheap flats will do for heat.

[bogeyman]

My mate has a wood burner and he goes through an amazing amount of wood as he seems to have to throw in a new bucket each hour.

He stays on a farm though and when a tree falls down he drags it back down to the house with his quad and chops it up, that does him for a few months.

Coal does make the room pretty dusty though and the crap stuff you have to use as we stay in a 'smokeless zone' generates no heat at all, we used to get a delivery from 'out of town' to get round that. I'm guessing that word burning would be banned here as well.

In 10 years gas central heating will not be an option for many and god knows what people in these cheap flats will do for heat.

He's doing it wrong. You need to adjust the draft so that the wood burns slowly. Otherwise it certainly will consume as much wood as you want to throw at it.

[minestrone]

He's doing it wrong. You need to adjust the draft so that the wood burns slowly. Otherwise it certainly will consume as much wood as you want to throw at it.

I suppose he has a back boiler on it and it is heating the entire farm house off that. He fits boilers for a living as well.

[HairyArsedBloke]

In 10 years gas central heating will not be an option for many and god knows what people in these cheap flats will do for heat.

Thanks to global warming they won't need any.

How they are going to afford the air conditioning in summer is another matter.

Take it from someone who has experience in these matters. I have spent more on air conditioning to cool things down in the tropics than I've ever spent keeping warm in the UK. Maybe by up to an order of magnitude.

[minestrone]

Glasgow is usually about 5 degrees colder than London. Global warming will just make it rain more and it already rains 65% of days here.