Heating the Hall a waster of oil/money? What is your view?

Galego

Question for those heating experts and anyone who wants to give it a go at answering my doubts.

I have a single panel single convector in the hall. My hall is narrow and standard length but l feel this radiator struggles to get the hall/stair to a warm temperature. I’ve read in some forums that hall is not a living area and therefore people do not put too much heating efforts (money) in heating it but at the same time we use the hall to go to the kitchen, downstairs loo and upstairs.

Would anyone recommend to replace that single convector for a double one? Or I would be throwing oil/money away heating the hall/stairs area?

Also note that I am planning to put a room thermostat in the hall.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Condenser

Galego wrote: »

Question for those heating experts and anyone who wants to give it a go at answering my doubts.

I have a single panel single convector in the hall. My hall is narrow and standard length but l feel this radiator struggles to get the hall/stair to a warm temperature. I’ve read in some forums that hall is not a living area and therefore people do not put too much heating efforts (money) in heating it but at the same time we use the hall to go to the kitchen, downstairs loo and upstairs.

Would anyone recommend to replace that single convector for a double one? Or I would be throwing oil/money away heating the hall/stairs area?

Also note that I am planning to put a room thermostat in the hall.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

if you don't heat the hall the rest of your rooms will transfer heat to it as heat flows from warm to cold. It has no barrier and is not insulated from the other rooms so that's what happens.
People who think you save energy by turning off zones within a house are talking muck. Stop heat escaping from the house because you won't stop it moving from room to room. It'll never reach the temp of the surrounding rooms but it is taking heat from them.

Charlie Charolais

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On heat transfer:
are individual room thermostats and different temperatures pointless?
And further to that is downstairs @ 21 and upstairs @ 19 pointless if heat just transfers to the coldest rooms? Downstairs will be working extra hard and the heat transferring to upstairs ?

Condenser

Charlie Charolais wrote: »

^^^
On heat transfer:
are individual room thermostats and different temperatures pointless?
And further to that is downstairs @ 21 and upstairs @ 19 pointless if heat just transfers to the coldest rooms? Downstairs will be working extra hard and the heat transferring to upstairs ?

Pretty much. Unless one is very well isolated from the other the heat will transfer quickly meaning downstairs would run and run with upstairs activating only intermittently. Zoning off small cold zones in houses does not save money.

Wearb

I isolate a couple of rooms except for heat coming on in the for 1 hour each day and if doors are kept closed, it does save on heating.