Alps
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Hi guys,
I hope you and your nearest and dearest are well.
I thought I'd asked the following questions on here previously, but after doing a search it seems I must have dreamt this! So, guys, could I please have some advice on what to do about the following? It's doing mine and my families head-in... as is the cold!
The long and short of my problem is this - 2 of the four bedrooms in my house just do not seem to heat up or retain heat and I need to source and resolve the issue! Even stranger is that if one of the cold bedrooms is at an OKish temp, the other is freezing. If the other one is at an OKish temp, the other is freezing! And vice-versa! I hope that makes sense?
If I turn the thermostat (situated on the first floor hallway) up to 24oc, the bedrooms only get up to about 21oc (less when it's freezing outside). But the stat itself shows 24oc in the hallway. I've even turned the radiator in the hallway off so it doesn't turn off before the rooms have heated up. I have a separate thermostat for the ground floor as that is all under floor heating.
Both of the cold rooms have outside facing walls. The rooms that aren't affected by this issue are the small room which has the wall of the next door house next to it. And the loft room isn't too bad at all, which is strange for a loft room!
I do need to check the insulation, but really do not want to cut holes in the walls. I'm going to try and remove some sockets to see if I can see any form of insulation from there.
I also do not fancy pulling down plaster board to apply insulation if needed. It's going to be one messy and expensive job. There is the option to add insulated plasterboard to the existing wall, but that will reduce the rooms sizes considerably.
Here's the background:
The house was built in and around 2003. It's a timber frame build with suspended floors. I bought the house in 2013. It was one of 2 mirror image houses built by an independent builder. From what neighbours tell me, the builder was an absolute cowboy who cut every corner possible.The houses had been rented out from when they were built to when I bought mine.
I got the entire ground floor redone when I bought the property as the screed on the floor had totally crumbled. At the same time, I got underfloor heating fitted on the ground floor. Rescreeded. Replastered. Repainted. New kitchen etc.
I couldn't afford at that time to do anything further to the first or second floor (loft room). But those floors weren't as bad as the ground floor. But it's the cold that is really not allowing me to repaint upstairs now.
How can I resolve this issue without risking unnecessary cutting and damaging of walls etc?
I hope you and your nearest and dearest are well.
I thought I'd asked the following questions on here previously, but after doing a search it seems I must have dreamt this! So, guys, could I please have some advice on what to do about the following? It's doing mine and my families head-in... as is the cold!
The long and short of my problem is this - 2 of the four bedrooms in my house just do not seem to heat up or retain heat and I need to source and resolve the issue! Even stranger is that if one of the cold bedrooms is at an OKish temp, the other is freezing. If the other one is at an OKish temp, the other is freezing! And vice-versa! I hope that makes sense?
If I turn the thermostat (situated on the first floor hallway) up to 24oc, the bedrooms only get up to about 21oc (less when it's freezing outside). But the stat itself shows 24oc in the hallway. I've even turned the radiator in the hallway off so it doesn't turn off before the rooms have heated up. I have a separate thermostat for the ground floor as that is all under floor heating.
Both of the cold rooms have outside facing walls. The rooms that aren't affected by this issue are the small room which has the wall of the next door house next to it. And the loft room isn't too bad at all, which is strange for a loft room!
I do need to check the insulation, but really do not want to cut holes in the walls. I'm going to try and remove some sockets to see if I can see any form of insulation from there.
I also do not fancy pulling down plaster board to apply insulation if needed. It's going to be one messy and expensive job. There is the option to add insulated plasterboard to the existing wall, but that will reduce the rooms sizes considerably.
Here's the background:
The house was built in and around 2003. It's a timber frame build with suspended floors. I bought the house in 2013. It was one of 2 mirror image houses built by an independent builder. From what neighbours tell me, the builder was an absolute cowboy who cut every corner possible.The houses had been rented out from when they were built to when I bought mine.
I got the entire ground floor redone when I bought the property as the screed on the floor had totally crumbled. At the same time, I got underfloor heating fitted on the ground floor. Rescreeded. Replastered. Repainted. New kitchen etc.
I couldn't afford at that time to do anything further to the first or second floor (loft room). But those floors weren't as bad as the ground floor. But it's the cold that is really not allowing me to repaint upstairs now.
How can I resolve this issue without risking unnecessary cutting and damaging of walls etc?